If you didn't hear the Chief Rabbi on Thought for the Day this morning, then take time plater to listen to it on the IPlayer. This is vintage Jonathan Sacks, humane, religiously generous, passionate in conviction, reasoned but within the key principles of his own faith tradition. I listened to it on the way into College and a grey wet Wednesday suddenly didn't seem so grey.
His distinction between regret and remorse, and his understanding of what forgiveness and reconciliation cost and their value to the human future give what he says a moral decisiveness in a blame culture where responsibility is always placed on someone else.
This is religious broadcasting at its very best. Ever since his reith Lectures on The Persistence of Faith, I have admired, listened to and learned deeply from the Chief Rabbi. I guess he stands somewhere between the moral glow of Micah, the sense of the Transcendent God of Isaiah, and the questioning intellect of Qoheleth, but with the sub-stratum of trust that permeates the Psalms, all integrated in a life based on The Torah.
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