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Parshat Ha’azinu October 12, 2019 13 Tishrei, 5780
Rabbi Sacks on Ha’azinu
TORAH
ARTSCROLL 1100 In March 2015 I had a quietly hostile to, the presence For many decades, IQ, or
HERTZ 896 public conversation at Yale of Jews among its students and intelligence quotient, focused
with the University’s staff. Happily that has not been attention on a set of
President Peter Salovey.
the case since 1960 when its
cognitive and reasoning tests
HAFTORAH The occasion was quite an President, A. Whitney Griswold, as the primary measure of
ARTSCROLL 1205 emotional one. It issued a directive that religion intelligence, itself considered
HERTZ 904 celebrated the sixtieth should play no role in the as the best indicator of
anniversary of the admissions process. Today it is ability as, for example, a
Marshall Scholarships, warmly welcoming to people of military officer. It took
Bar Mitzvah all faiths and ethnicities. Noting another brilliant Jewish
created by the British
parliament as a way of
of that fact, the President pointed psychologist of our time,
Oliver Goldwyn expressing thanks to the out that not only was Yale that Howard Gardner (of
United States for the afternoon hosting a rabbi, but Harvard), to break this
Times Marshall Plan, that helped he too – Salovey – was Jewish paradigm and argue for the
Western Europe rebuild its and the descendant of a great idea of multiple intelligences.
economies after the rabbinic dynasty. Salovey is an Solving puzzles is not the
Candle Lighting 6:03 pm Second World War. The Anglicization of the name only skill that matters. What
scholarships fund Soloveitchik. Salovey and Mayer did was
Mincha 6:05 pm outstanding young to show that our ability to
Americans to study at any Thinking back to that occasion, I understand and respond to
Hashkama 8:00 am university in the United wondered whether there was a not only our own emotions
Kingdom. So, the more than merely family but also those of others is an
Parsha Shiur 8:30 am gathering that evening connection between the essential element of success
university president and his
was about the links in many fields, indeed of
Main 9:00 am between Britain and the great distant relative, Rabbi human interaction in general.
Joseph Soloveitchik, the man
United States, and the known to generations of his There are fundamental
Beit Midrash 9:15 am role of universities in students at Yeshiva University elements of our humanity
cultivating that generosity that have to do with the way
of spirit, epitomized by the as simply, “The Rav.” Was there we feel, not just the way we
Gemara Shiur 4:55 pm an intellectual and spiritual link
Marshall Plan, that think. Even more
understands the need to also, however oblique? There is, importantly, we need to
Mincha 5:55 pm and it is significant. Peter
build peace, not just wage understand how other people
war. But it had another Salovey’s great contribution to feel – the gift of empathy – if
Shabbat Ends 7:09 pm emotional resonance. Yale the thought of our time is the we are to form a meaningful
is one the world’s great concept he formulated together bond with them. That is what
Sun. - Fri. See Page 3 universities. Yet there was with John Mayer in a landmark the Torah is referring to
Week’s Schedule a time, between the 1920s 1989 article, namely emotional when it says, “Do not
intelligence – popularized in
and 1960s, when it had a 1995 by Daniel Goleman’s best- oppress a stranger because
Latest Times for reputation for being selling book of the same title. you know what it feels like to
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei guarded about, even be a stranger” (Ex. 23:9).
Kiddush is sponsored by Talia & Sol Goldwyn
Oct. 12 9:51/10:48 am
in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son Oliver
Oct. 19 9:54/10:49 am Kiddush on the first day of Sukkot in the Helene M. Fink Sukkah

Next Shabbat is sponsored by Diane & David Rein
Chol HaMoed Sukkot in memory of their parents
Helene M. Fink z”l and Howard Rein z”l
Candle Lighting 5:53 pm
Bima Flowers for Sukkot are sponsored by
Mincha 5:55 pm Gail & Joe Notovitz and Farla & William Frumkin
in memory of their mother Miriam Frumkin z”l