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Our critics' guide to the best reads to take away with you
6.30pm 12 June | Richard Davies, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Minouche Shafik, Linda Yueh | Free event at the LSE Festival: People and Change | Booking required
Linda Yueh’s brief and engrossing book shows that economic crises follow well-worn paths, and sometimes might even be good for us
Rabbi Sacks zt’’l prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will carry on distributing these essays each week, so people around the world can continue to learn and be inspired by his Torah. The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as Numbers. This raises a number of questions: what is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the pe...
The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as Numbers. This raises a number of questions: what is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely one would have been sufficient. Additionally, does counting have anything to do with leadership? The place to begin is to note what appears to be a contradiction. On the one hand, Rashi says that the acts of counting...