The world is not better without Rabbi Lord Sacks.  What a giant!  My hope is your influence grows and grows.  May your memory be a blessing on bnei Israel.

Thanks for blessing of sharing this program.

R. Sacks is definately missed.
This is 11 yrs old. So much has changed globally!

Wonderful. Articulate. Inspirational.

Thank you

Do not be afraid, but have Faith:  Psalms 27 "The Lord is my light and my Strength " Excellent words of Encouragement. Amen. Thank you.

Jonathan is connected to the throne of wisdom

Someone must do a Hebrew translation for all his lectures !!! Someone take it as a project ... it's important !!!

Another wonderful lecture by rabbi Jonathan Sacks He explained prayer as part of Judaism Hashem  is the creator of the World  Life as he described is creation,growth, decay and death Judaism is Jews ,history, ethics and values ie Jewish customs and festival In an age of anti semitism let us continue the work of rabbi Jonathan Sacks by continuing the practice of Judaism and believe in Hashem

Thank you for this.

It is not a believe or a religion. It is existentialy rooted. To me the Living Torah.

Soloveichik is the best.

Only those who put their faith in Jesus Christ are truly blessed. Jonathan Sachs knows that now but it's too late for him.  Jesus Christ the one and only Messiah was sent from God to take away our sins.  Turn to him and ask him to forgive you by the blood he shed on Calvary. That is the only way you can find eternal peace and happiness. And if you don't you will know the terrors of hell forever

People think that Chazal did not know how the world works, and that science is far from them
But Chazal did not inquire much about how it works
But why it works that way

The very excellent Lord rabbi Sachs! Hazak !

Rome didn't collapse because it lost its faith.  First, the Eastern Roman Empire kept on going until 1453 when it was conquered by the Ottomans.  If he meant the western Roman Empire, there first I'd note that Gibbon suggested it was "too much" Christianity" that caused its fall, but in any event Christianity was pretty strong throughout the western part of the Empire when it fell in 476 AD....in fact the Pope was in Rome itself.  I am unaware of any evidence that strongly suggests faith was waning in the west, as evidenced by the fact that  Christian religion continued there as the only religion permitted in the south and west without persecution (and then only the Roman religion until the Protestant Reformation).  I would also dispute that ancient Greece ended because it lost its religion, but the causes of its decline are too complicated to go into in a Facebook post.  It being conquered by Macedonia in 338 BC and then Rome in 146 BC were part of it,m but note that Rome wound up borrowing the Greek religion in its pre-Christian days, to the point where the Roman Gods are mostly direct analogs of Greeks,  showing that the Greek religion was still kicking after Greece fell and into the era of the expanded Roman Republic and later, the Empire.

communism didn't try to go without a religion (1:07:00) - communism IS a religion - with their Book of laws and their reward-to-come of "perfect society" that would come when all are "righteous" - perfectly responsible red-flag carriers ...

"Suffering is built into creation"?  Creation is the birth of individuality and individuality is separate from the universal, or Gd.  If there is separation from Gd, that is the essence of suffering.

To add my thoughts to the question around the 26:00-28:00 mark "Why is Judaism in particular so virulently despised by secularists?" From Judaism sprung ideas that are now very counter-culture and reviled (aside from the general repressiveness of organized religion). The first of which, and arguably the worst depending on who you ask, is the dreaded patriarchy and all the attitudes that come with it [misogyny]. While other cultures had it as well, Judaism has had the most profound effect on the world, so it's blamed above others. The second: defined sexuality/gender roles [bigotry]. The list goes on. To better understand secular hatred towards religion, put oneself in the mind of the stereotypical histrionic angry feminist of media portrayal. Much hatred of the traditional religions, Judaism primary among them, stems from the misguided view that they are all repressive & misogynistic institutions that are incompatible with the modern mindset (acceptance of homosexuality, empowerment of women, primacy of individuality, etc). Despite most of Judaism conforming to these modern ideas, it is still viewed as the progenitor of social evil by the majority of atheists.

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