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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy
@rabbisacks
Perpetuating the timeless and universal wisdom of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as a teacher of Torah, a leader of leaders and a moral voice.

May 31, 2019, 5 tweets

Here is a thread from my Covenant & Conversation essay on #Bechukotai called "The Birth of Hope". You can read it in full here: bit.ly/2W4gb0b and download the accompanying Family Edition here: bit.ly/2XksUNY. #ShabbatShalom

#History, as conceived in parshat Bechukotai, is not utopian. #Faith does not blind us to the apparent randomness of circumstance, the cruelty of fortune, or the seeming injustices of #fate.

No one reading Leviticus 26 can be an optimist. Yet no one sensitive to its message can abandon #hope. Without this, #Jews and #Judaism would not have survived.

Without belief in the covenant and its insistence, “Yet in spite of this,” there might have been no #Jewish people after the destruction of one or other of the Temples, or the #Holocaust itself.

It is not too much to say that #Jews kept #hope alive, and hope kept the #Jewish people alive.

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