Textual Resources
Reads Tehillim
Rabbi Sacks calls the book of Psalms "The greatest religious poetry ever written." It helps us intensify our "encounter with the Divine." Reads Tehillim is an online project, facilitated by Sacks-Herenstein Center graduate interns, Netanel Muskat and Shoshana Rockoff, presenting literary and visual interpretations of the chapters of Tehillim by faculty and students. This project is in conjunction with a forthcoming Press book on Tehillim, a collaborative publication of the Straus and Sacks-Herenstein Centers, co-edited by Drs. Shaina Trapedo and Erica Brown with a forward by Dr. Shira Weiss. Check out the website for insightful and creative readings of the chapters of Tehillim:
Sacks-Herenstein High School Educators Workshop: Learning and Teaching the Thought of Rabbi Sacks and Beyond
Pedagogical Resources developed by workshop participants
The Torah View of Slavery: A Case Study of Morality and the Torah
Morality and Isaac’s Blessing to Jacob
The Immorality of Sedom Hatred of Foreigners
Morality and Religious Rigor: Melachim I, Chaps 17-18
Eat, Pray, Socialize? On Civility, Hospitality, and Morality
Questioning the Morality of the Avot
Morality in the Yehuda and Tamar Saga
Morality in the Torah- What the Parsha of Ben Sorer U’Moreh Can teach us
Mutating Hatred: Through the Lens of Rabbinic Thought & Literature
The First Occurrence of anti-Semitism in the Bible
No Self-Hate; No self-Disesteem; No Despair!
Anti-Semitism and the Book of Daniel
Anti-Zionism as the New Antisemitism
Roots and Responses to Literary and Literal Antisemitism
Anti-Semitism in Megillat Esther
Anti-Semitism: Joseph in Egypt
Antisemitism- What is our response?
Haggadah Supplement