Timely Words From Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ztl

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it's an enormous privilege to be addressing you the members of the rabbinical alliance of america and the good harabo name and i want to thank you three times over number one for your incredible work with your kihilo during these really but really difficult months you have been sustaining their spirits giving them personal guidance being there for them at a time that cannot have been easy for any of you and i want to thank you for that number two thank you for arranging this meeting of mine so that together we can inspire ourselves to hopefully inspire others and thirdly simply to say how important your work is devka at this time of social distancing of face masks of goodness knows i don't know if you have the same prohibitions in the states as we have in britain but there's no communal singing yet allowed in places of worship and all of these things make matters very very difficult indeed and it is our job your job our our job to do what we can to raise people's spirits so the first dvar i would like to share with you is the importance and the difference it makes when you raise people's spirits the terror is explicit about this when the banay israel had to fight against amalek in the minibar the terror tells us that kasha yarim moshe that yadav israel when moses lifted up his hands israel prevailed the cashe when he let his hands fall amalek prevailed the mishna says famously to the hands of moses have this magical property that they

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