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Foreword; Faith, Leadership, and LegacyIntroduction; Finding FaithBereshit; The Genesis of LoveNoah; The Light in the ArkLekh Lekha; A Palace in FlamesVayera; Negative CapabilityHayei Sara; To Have a WhyToledot; Isaac and EsauVayetzeh; Laban the ArameanVayishlah; No Longer Shall You Be Called JacobVayeshev; The Angel Who Did Not Know He Was an AngelMiketz; Joseph and the Risks of PowerVayigash; The Future of the PastVayehi; Family, Faith, and FreedomShemot; Faith in the FutureVa'era; The Weighing of the HeartBo; Writing My Own ChapterBeshallah; Crossing the SeaYitro; Particular Paths to a Universal GodMishpatim; We Will Do and We Will HearTeruma; What Do We Receive When We Give?Tetzaveh; Dressing to ImpressKi Tissa; Moses Annuls a VowVayak'hel; Communities and CrowdsPekudei; The Blessed Power of OrderVayikra; The Prophetic View of SacrificeTzav; Left and Right Brain JudaismShemini; LimitsTazria; Othello, Twitter, and Mildewed WallsMetzora; Words That HealAharei Mot; Holy People, Holy LandKedoshim; Made with LoveEmor; Radical UncertaintyBehar; Real ResponsibilitiesBehukkotai; The Power of a CurseBemidbar; Egalitarianism, Jewish StyleNaso; The Ethic of LoveBehaalotekha; Loneliness and FaithShelah; What Is Going On?Korah; How Not to ArgueHukkat; Kohelet, Tolstoy, and the Red HeiferBalak; The Hidden Meaning of the Balaam StoryPinhas; Moral vs Political DecisionsMatot; Keeping Our WordMasei; My Teacher; In MemoriamDevarim; The First FollowerVa'ethanan; The Infinite GameEkev; The Covenant and the LoveRe'eh; The Good SocietyShofetim; A Sage Is Greater than a ProphetKi Tetzeh; Does Love Conquer All?Ki Tavo; Be Silent and ListenNitzavim; Why Be Jewish?Vayelekh; How to Renew a NationHaazinu; The Arc of the Moral UniverseVezot Haberakha; The Inheritance That Belongs to All
About This Text
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Composed: 2020 CE
I Believe: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible is Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ last compilation of essays on the weekly Torah portion, written through the 2020 Torah reading cycle, before his death. In these essays, Sacks identifies and explores a different Jewish belief in each weekly portion, showing how his own beliefs were formed amidst an ongoing conversation between the Torah and his life experiences, and how others can achieve the same.