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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

From the Archives: The Ellul Shiur from Rabbi Sacks in 2012

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rabbi Jonathan 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 12th and final as Chief Rabbi. It was delivered and recorded in September 2012. He titled it 'The Meaning of Kol Nidre'. To watch the video, please visit https://www.rabbisacks.org/videos/meaning-of-kol-nidre/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Friends, I'm behalf of all of us on behalf of Anglo Jury.

0:07.0

I want to thank, oh sorry, Anthony, British jury.

0:10.0

I want to thank Rafi and Jason and the team at LSJS, Tamara and the team at Kings,

0:21.6

for the incredible job you've done in really revitalizing adult education in our community.

0:28.6

This new facility is a wonderful sign of the growth and expansion.

0:33.6

And you've been great.

0:36.6

May I'm continue to bless you. May your courses continue to sell out.

0:41.3

May you have absolutely no free Monday afternoons.

0:44.3

And thank you and round of applause for everyone who's made it possible.

0:53.3

Friends, one of the things that we've done in the last year, and I think there are some outside,

1:01.0

is to do a new Yon Kippur Masa.

1:04.0

And this time last year, I took you through one of the discoveries that we made on the way,

1:11.6

which is in the introduction.

1:13.6

But I had no idea that we would have the opportunity

1:18.6

of making a real discovery.

1:21.6

And that's really what I want to share with you,

1:23.6

our little equivalent of the God particle,

1:26.6

solving one of the real puzzles that has kept scholars

1:33.7

perplexed for centuries.

1:36.2

And in the last century, led to the writing

1:40.5

of countless numbers of scholarly studies and books and that is the

1:48.8

question of Colnidre. Colnidre is the strangest prayer ever to enter the prayer

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