Porcupines, Silos and Light: Three Short Timely and Timeless Thoughts from the Late Great Rabbi Sacks, z’l This past fall, we lost a true giant in the world of Jewish thought and impact. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the UK and author of dozens of books.Rabbi Sacks had a gift for taking his incredibly vast trove of knowledge and being able to communicate it to all of us with both depth and meaning. Up until his passing, he was still writing, publishing Morality, this past fall. While one can spend years reading and rereading Rabbi Sacks’ words, I wanted to share three meaningful passages from this book that speaks to our time and our missions to make the world a better place. We, I and the Porcupine Dynamic In his book, he discusses a conversation between him and Robert Putnam, political scientist. Putnam has focused on how our society has moved from a We society to an I society. R. Sacks undergoes some research online on the subject. He writes, “The use of “We” is relativ
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