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The Office of Rabbi Sacks

A Tale Of Two Women - A Shavuot Shiur By Rabbi Sacks

The Office of Rabbi Sacks

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

To launch the new Koren-Sacks Shavuot machzor, Rabbi Sacks delivered a keynote shiur in London on 7 June 2016 to a packed room in Finchley United Synagogue. Co-hosted by Koren Publishers and the London School of Jewish Studies, Rabbi Sacks talked about the similarities between Ruth and Tamar, and what we can learn from their experiences about our identity as a Jewish people.

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0:00.0

Well, I think I should retire more often.

0:21.6

Friends, it is such a privilege to be with you.

0:26.6

Rabbi Lawrence, Dyn Binstock, Rabbi Leitner,

0:29.6

Rabbi Dr. Rafi Zarram, Roberts and Epstein, France.

0:34.6

It is an enormous privilege and boost to myself image that even briefly I shared shelf space with Jeffrey Archer.

0:46.3

You've fulfilled a lifetime ambition, Reverend Epstein.

0:52.3

And really, it's been a privilege, and it is doubly so to be able to

0:58.7

launch this the last of the Marseurium they all five have now been

1:03.2

completed to launch it here in the Finchley community where I began my journey

1:10.6

here in Keeda and if any of you feel, you know, a little

1:15.3

Jewishly challenged, please take comfort from the fact that my brothers all did better than me

1:21.9

in Geida. But you just keep trying and eventually you climb the ladder. But I have such warm memories of this community.

1:29.3

It's where my journey began and of course, fond memories of now Chief Rabbi Mervis

1:35.3

and all that he has done for this community.

1:37.3

And it's great to be with you.

1:39.3

But doubly so, a privilege to be able to collaborate with two remarkable people, Linda and Michael Weinstein.

1:47.0

We thank you for sponsoring this, Marseuxa, especially for choosing to do so in honor and memory

1:55.0

of your late parents, beloved Stella and Ernest Weinstein, and Nie and Solo Greenberg of blessed memory.

2:03.9

You were wonderful children to them and you have cherished their memory and I pray,

2:09.1

may all the doverning that is done using this marseh bring Nakhuz Roach to their souls in heaven.

2:16.5

And we hope they are smiling at this way that you are keeping their spirit and their memory alive.

2:24.2

Thank you so much.

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