The Lonely Citizen of Faith

A tribute to Rabbi Sacks (of blessed memory), the titan who embodied the West.

Europe owes the Jews no small thanks for making people think more logically and for establishing cleanlier intellectual habits… Wherever Jews have won influence they have taught men to make finer distinctions, more rigorous inferences, and to write in a more luminous and cleanly fashion; their task was ever to bring a people “to listen to raison.” (Frie…