Sacks 6/7:6 or 7 Insights by Rabbi Sacks in the Coming Parshiyot Yitro, Mishpatim, Terumah Every week or so, depending on the Parsha, I will share 6 or 7 insights from Rabbi Sacks that stuck out to me and will inspire us in the coming week or weeks. Wishing everyone meaningful and sweet Shabbatot–Shabbat Shalom! Insight #1 - יִתְרוֹ-The Original Barukh Hashem (Ex:18:10 p. 517) בָּרוּךְ יְ-ה Blessed be the LORD – The quintessential Jewish expression of thanks, gratitude, and acknowledgment is barukh Hashem, meaning “thank God” or “praise be to the LORD.” Ḥasidim say of the Baal Shem Tov that he would travel around the little towns and villages of Eastern Europe, asking Jews how they were. However poor or troubled they were, invariably they would reply, “Barukh Hashem.” It was an instinctive expression of faith, and every Jew knew it. They might have lacked the learning of the great talmudic scholar, or the wealth of the successful, but they believed they had much to thank God for,...
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