Rabbi Sacks for all the family - The Jewish Chronicle

Perhaps no part of Rabbi Sacks’s oeuvre has enjoyed as big a readership as Covenant & Conversation, his essays on the weekly Torah portion. They began as an email series in 2007, were subsequently collected in book form and now reappear in a special family edition which is intended to encourage inter-generational learning.

For parents who have children at Jewish schools and want to support their education, the new two-volume set could hardly be a better resource. The new publication has been edited by Rabbi Daniel Rose, the British Israeli who looks after educational projects for Koren, the Jerusalem-based publisher with which for many years Rabbi Sacks enjoyed a fruitful collaboration.

Rabbi Rose, a Sinai and Hasmonean pupil from Edgware, studied in Israeli yeshivot and British universities before making aliyah and later gained a doctorate from the Hebrew University. “Rabbi Sacks was always someone who gave a lot of himself to the young people. He was always at the Bnei Akiva bayit, he would have teachers round to his house.”

Rabbi Dr Daniel Rose[Missing Credit]

As a teacher himself - he taught at Immanuel College - he has used Covenant & Conversation in the secondary school classroom. “I always believed you could repackage Rabbi Sacks’s complex philosophical ideas for a younger audience,” he said.

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