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In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.
Jonathan Sacks
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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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St Pancras
London
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
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In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.
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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
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Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
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Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
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Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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