Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: How we can face the future without fear, together
רבי לורד יונתן סאקס: רבי לורד יונתן סאקס מרצה ב TED2017
In a world violently polarized by extremists, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious intolerance. Full bio
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in the history of the West.
and divided societies.
uncertainty and fear,
חוסר ביטחון ופחד,
almost faster than we can bear,
משאנחנו יכולים לשאת,
that it's going to change faster still.
being in America
'I know I asked for ice --
the future without fear?
into a culture and into an age
so many different things --
some one, some none.
כמה באחד, כמה באף אחד.
we talk about morality
new religious ritual we have created.
that what we worship in our time
שמה שאנחנו מעריכים בזמננו
It's empowering. It's wonderful.
we're social animals.
אנחנו חיות חברתיות.
of our evolutionary history
the choreography of altruism
את הכוריאוגרפיה של האלטרואיזם
and loyalty and love
and too little of the "we,"
ומעט מדי מה"אנחנו,"
that Sherry Turkle of MIT
on the impact of social media
על ההשפעה של המדיה החברתית
of safeguarding the future "you"
לשמירה על "אתם" העתידיים
take the us of relationship.
and Sartre and Camus.
and thoroughly unpleasant to know,
and eight grandchildren later,
ושמונה נכדים מאוחר יותר,
I ever took in my life,
שאי פעם עשיתי בחיי,
rather than broadcasting
almost entirely by people like us
על ידי אנשים כמונו
whose prejudices, even,
הדעות הקדומות שלהם, אפילו,
with people with the same views as us,
עם אותן דעות כמו שלנו,
those face-to-face encounters
את המפגשים פנים אל פנים האלו
that we can disagree strongly
that the people not like us
or color are different from ours,
Have you seen the memorials?
האם ראיתם את האנדרטאות?
Second Inaugural on the other.
נאום ההשבעה השני בצד שני.
from his speeches.
in America you read memorials.
in London in Parliament Square
to David Lloyd George
I'll tell you why the difference.
a nation of wave after wave of immigrants,
אומה של גלים אחרי גלים של מהגרים,
you read on memorials
in presidential inaugural addresses.
wasn't a nation of immigrants,
which shouldn't have happened together.
שלא היו צריכים לקרות יחד.
we've stopped telling this story
הפסקנו לספר את הסיפור
than it's ever been before.
and your identity is strong,
and dispersed and exiled for 2,000 years.
והתפזרו והוגלו במשך 2,000 שנה.
and we taught it to our children
bread of affliction
to telling our story,
share collective responsibility
really are and should be.
is elect this strong leader
זה לבחור במנהיג החזק הזה
all our problems for us.
את כל הבעיות שלנו בשבילנו.
and the extreme anti-religious,
of a golden age that never was,
על דור זהב שמעולם לא היה,
of a utopia that never will be
על אוטופיה שלעולם לא תהיה
equally convinced
or the absence of God
who will save us from ourselves
counterintuitive truths:
המנוגדות לאיטואיציה היפיפייות:
when it cares about the vulnerable.
to begin to change the world.
the word "self,"
of the most moving sentences
of the shadow of death,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks - Religious leaderIn a world violently polarized by extremists, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious intolerance.
Why you should listen
Rabbi Lord Sacks is one of Judaism's spiritual leaders, and he exercises a primary influence on the thought and philosophy of Jews and people of all faiths worldwide. Since stepping down as Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth in 2013, Rabbi Lord Sacks has become an increasingly well-known speaker, respected moral voice and writer. He has authored more than 30 books, the latest, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, was published in 2015.
Granted a seat in the British House of Lords in 2009 and the winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize, Rabbi Lord Sacks is a key Jewish voice for universalism and an embrace of tolerance between religions and cultures. He rejects the "politics of anger" brought about by the way "we have acted as if markets can function without morals, international corporations without social responsibility and economic systems without regard to their effect on the people left stranded by the shifting tide." He also sees, as a key idea for faith in our times, that unity in heaven creates diversity on earth.
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