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Jonathan Sacks Biography

Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, MBE (Hebrew: Yaakov Zvi, יעקב צבי; born 8 March 1948) is a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and politician.

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Freedom. . . leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

Family, Freedom, Leads, Life, Love, Share

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Compared, Faith, Past, Religious

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Justice, Law, Rights, Secured, System, True

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Admit, Allows, Being Honest, Honest, Imperfection, Plead

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Happiness, Made, Share

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Civilization, Humanity, Religious, Rising, Terror

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Giving, Nation, Nations

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Fear, Needs, People, Play, Safe, Stride

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Ask, Communication, Cutting, Leader, Technology

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education. . .

Army, Civilization, Country

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

Contains, Corners, Fields, Gleaning, Grapes, Hands

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Hero, Lots, Media, Shape, Teacher, Teachers

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Creeds, Culture Religion, Free, Independent, Israel, Press

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Absurd, Father, Growing Up, Mother, Role

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Age, Faces, History, Ideas, Individualism, Religion

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

Children, Freedom, Home, Message, Powerful, Teach

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

America, Biblical, Sabbatical, Should Have, Warning, Years

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

Allow, Believe, Challenges, Indulge, Indulge In, Wrong

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

Conference, Heart, Mind, Ordinary, Table

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

British Politics, Deep, Party, Politics Today, Report, Troubles

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