On Saturday a great teacher of Torah, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, died.
In an interview published in 2013, Rabbi Sacks said that our core task as Jews is to bring “spiritual and moral values into the heart of society.”
Today—and every day—this is our challenge: to be our very best selves in the way we behave, in how we talk to each other, and in the way we care for others as we strive to fulfill what Rabbi Akiva called the essence of Torah: the mitzvah to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
No matter how we voted or how we might feel about the various outcomes, let us resolve to endeavor with renewed energy to bring the highest spiritual and moral values of our tradition into the world.
— Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback