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the many faces of rabbi sacks

Rabbi Sacks the Father
Gila Sacks

e used to joke that if you bumped into my dad
in the kitchen, he’d probably want you to work
Wout how to solve global antisemitism while the
kettle boils. But he did, because why wouldn’t he? Prob-
lems are there to be solved… That’s what my dad taught
us, in everything he taught, he wrote, but mainly in the
things he chatted to us about while the kettle boiled.
He loved us, so much, and never ever missed any opportunity
in recent years to tell us that. To tell us how proud he was of
everything each of us did, but mainly, of who we were. Of how 1
proud he was of each grandchild, and every new bit of joy they
brought into his world. And because he loved us, each of us in
different ways because we are different people, he gave us the
space to become us, not him…

I will remember many things, but those two in particular: he
taught us that the world is there to be challenged and that
there is no such thing as an unsolvable problem, and he
loved us, which meant we could become the people we are,
and no child could wish for more.

(Extracted from Gila’s hesped at her father’s funeral.)

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1. With his children, Josh, Dina and Gila 2. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm zt”l 3. Rabbi Adin Even-Israel | 35
Steinsaltz zt”l 4. Rabbi Dr. Leonard Matanky 5. Rabbi Doron Perez 6. Jonny Lipczer