Rabbi Danny Rich is the Senior Rabbi and Chief Executive of Liberal Judaism.
“For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life” Deuteronomy 32:47
“Put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and its cattle to the sword. Doom it all and all that is in it to destruction: ...and burn the town” Deuteronomy 13:16-17
“Let the Eternal God, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community” Numbers 27:16
“We remember the fish we used to eat free in Egypt - the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic” Numbers 11:6
“No person of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall {be qualified to} offer food to his God”
“When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling, a rash or a discolouration, and it develops into a scaly affection on the skin of his body it shall be reported to Aaron, the priest or to one of his sons, the priest” Leviticus 13:2
“{Bezalel} was endowed with a divine spirit of skill, ability and knowledge” Exodus 35:31
“Moses’s father-in- law said to him: ‘The thing you are doing is not right; you will surely wear yourself out and these people as well” Exodus 18:17-18
“Joseph died at the age of 110 years and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin” Genesis 50:26
“In the time of the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found mandrakes” Genesis 30:14
Incurably ill individuals should be free to discuss openly their wishes about dying, writes Rabbi Danny Rich
Rabbi Danny Rich, the senior rabbi of Liberal Judaism, gave this speech at Britain’s Broken Promise: Time for a New Approach, a conference on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, organised by the Balfour Project charity, which took at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, on October 31
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