Remembering Rabbi Sacks

As we mark the second yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, on 20 Heshvan celebrate his legacy by revisiting some of the special content TRADITION has produced exploring his thought and read some of R. Sacks’ own contributions to our pages.

• Rabbi Sacks’ print essays in TRADITION.
• During the year fo mourning, we explored the sources in western culture and scholarship on which Rabbi Sacks drew in crafting his own thought – visit the archives of the Rabbi Sacks Bookshelves Project. 
• The TRADITION Podcast spoke with some of the distinguished British educators who authored essays in the Rabbi Sacks Bookshelves Project.
• David Shatz wrote about “The Thought Worlds of Rabbi Sacks” in the days immediately following his passing.
• Erica Brown discussed Rabbi Sacks’ teachings on home and family as pillars of Jewish education and transmission, through the prism of his Haggada commentary.
• Listen to the TRADITION Podcast on “The Philosophical Legacy of Jonathan Sacks” with Daniel Rynhold and Jeffrey Saks.
• Our downloadable High Holiday Reader collated many of TRADITION’s writings on Rabbi Sacks’ teaching.
• Read Alan Jotkowitz’s essay, “Universalism and Particularism in the Jewish Tradition: The Radical Theology of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks,” TRADITION 44:3 (Fall 2011).
• Sam Lebens’ recently published “One God, One Truth, Many Languages: Rabbi Sacks’ Pluralism Reexamined” (Spring 2022) and discussed the essay on the TRADITION Podcast.