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Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible QUOTES

Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible QUOTES

1 " That is why three of the four matriarchs found themselves unable to conceive other than by a miracle. "

― Jonathan Sacks , Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

2 " The greatest challenge of any society is how to contain the universal, inevitable phenomenon of envy, the desire to have what belongs to someone else. Envy lies at the heart of violence. "

― Jonathan Sacks , Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

3 " A free society is a moral achievement. That is the central insight of the Torah. It depends on the existence of a shared moral code, a code we are taught by our parents, a code we internalise in the course of growing up, a code for whose maintenance we are collectively responsible. Today, throughout much of the West, morality has been largely outsourced to governments and regulatory bodies. The "

― Jonathan Sacks , Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

4 " The alternative to morality is violence. Violence is the attempt to satisfy my desires at the cost of yours. "

― Jonathan Sacks , Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

5 " At three in the morning we finished by dancing together. We knew we were different, we knew that there were deep divides between our respective faiths, but we had become friends. Perhaps that is all we should seek. Friends do not have to agree in order to stay friends. And friendships can sometimes help heal the world. "

― Jonathan Sacks , Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible