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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

From the Archives: The Ellul Shiur from Rabbi Sacks in 2011

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rabbi Sacks had a tradition, to deliver a pre-Rosh Hashanah shiur every year at the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS). The Ellul shiur(lecture) featured here, was his 11th as Chief Rabbi. It was delivered and recorded in September 2011. Mekorot (sources) are embedded within the video and can be seen on screen if you watch - rather than listen - to the video. To watch the video, please visit https://www.rabbisacks.org/videos/chief-rabbis-annual-elul-lecture-at-lsjs/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Friends, may I wish all of you a gama, chatima tova, be a really good year for you, for your families,

0:06.3

for the Jewish people throughout the world, especially for the people of Israel in the state of Israel.

0:11.2

We pray it should be a year of blessing and a peace. Amen.

0:15.5

Can I just say thank you on all our behalf to Dr. Rafi Zaram and Dr. Tamara Games for the incorrect right, right,

0:25.3

sorry, right, sorry. It's wonderful, you know, I come here to accumulate ever more sins to

0:34.0

confess on Yen people. Tamara, will you forgive me? Thank you. There we are. May you have a year

0:41.4

of learning and the joy of learning on May. Friends, I don't know, if you notice, we did a new

0:48.6

Mochseh this year. And so, you know, I tell you what happens. It's, you know, Mitzvhira's Mitzvah, 2000, whenever it was,

0:58.2

we brought out a new Siddhar. And the first comment, everyone said was, no, and what about the

1:04.6

macha? So we finally got round to the Makhsa, and now everyone says, but what about Yom Kippur?

1:10.8

So we're working on it and

1:12.8

that is the nature of the Shia I want to share with you because it is when you do

1:19.2

a macha or a siddah that you discover stuff that you didn't notice before

1:25.1

you discover mistranslations commentaries that are not quite right,

1:31.3

and so on and so forth. For instance, did you ever notice in the old singer's prayer book,

1:37.1

it used to say in the prayer for the state of Israel, it used to wish,

1:41.3

Sahal, Bishlach brahah and al-a-tslacha be all my say yaday-h.

1:46.4

The English, and it was said in English, was send blessing and prosperity to the work of their

1:52.7

hands as if Zahal were an investment bank.

1:56.8

You don't actually wish an army prosperity.

1:59.3

You wish them success. But apparently for all those years, for 15 years, nobody noticed this. It was absolutely extraordinary.

2:07.4

I don't know if I ever mentioned to you the changing translation of the Yukum Porcon. Did I mention this to you?

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