Rabbi Sacks receives The Bradley Prize

The Office of Rabbi Sacks

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On 15 June 2016 at a ceremony in Washington DC, Rabbi Sacks was awarded one of The Bradley Prizes by The Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Prizes are awarded each year to four individuals in recognition of their work. Together with Rabbi Sacks the other 2016 recipients were: social scientist and author Charles Murray; historian and author Andrew Roberts; and humanitarian and actor Gary Sinise. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it. This audio includes an introduction by George Will, one of America's leading political commentators, followed by a video including comments from Tony Blair, former US Senator Joe Lieberman, and Professor Akbar Ahmed of American University. The prize itself was presented by Michael W. Grebe, President & CEO of The Bradley Foundation, after which Rabbi Sacks delivered his acceptance speech. You can read a transcript of Rabbi Sacks' remarks here: https://bradleyprizes.com/the-…/rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks-2/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Of the more than 70 Woodhouse novels that I have read, a favorite is titled
0:06.3	Much Obliged Jeeves. In it, the amiable but cloth-headed Bertram Wuster, whose knowledge
0:13.2	of British government, as of everything else, is a bit thin, asks a friend about a particular
0:18.8	public figure Lord Roderick Spode.
0:21.6	The friend says, Spode is a silver-tonged orator who has the sort of gift of gab that gets people elected to Parliament.
0:29.6	To which Worcester asks, then why doesn't Spode get himself a seat in the House of Commons?
0:35.6	Worcester's friend says, he can't, you poor chump.
0:39.3	He's a Lord.
0:40.3	Worcester, they don't allow lords in.
0:44.3	Friend, no, they don't.
0:46.3	To which, Worcester says, I see,
0:49.3	rather impressed by this proof that the House of Commons drew the line somewhere.
0:57.0	The House of Commons would not let in our third winner of a 2016 Bradley Prize.
1:03.0	He is a Lord, having been knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 2005 and made a life peer,
1:10.0	he has sat in the House of Lord since 2009.
1:14.0	Now, any damn fool can be a Lord and a number of damn fools are.
1:19.9	Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is, however, special.
1:24.0	The author of 25 books, a teacher at many prestigious universities, the recipient of innumerable honors,
1:32.1	he is one of the world's most distinguished and accomplished religious leaders.
1:36.8	He is an unmistakable and indispensable voice insisting on cultural and political accommodations
1:43.2	of the spiritual dimension of life.
1:47.0	And that is not all.
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