Insights, ideas and inspiration mined from the weekly Torah portion and the classic commentaries, and distilled by South African Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein. Known as a "spiritual entrepreneur", Rabbi Goldstein has launched and led a number of initiatives that have changed the face not only of his own community, but of world Jewry. In the Language of Tomorrow, he explores the Torah's vision for creating a better society, and an inspired, meaningful life.
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Insights, ideas and inspiration mined from the weekly Torah portion and the classic commentaries, and distilled by South African Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein. Known as a "spiritual entrepreneur", Rabbi Goldstein has launched and led a number of initiatives that have changed the face not only of his own community, but of world Jewry. In the Language of Tomorrow, he explores the Torah's vision for creating a better society, and an inspired, meaningful life.
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August 12, 2026
Part 6: The Key to Success | Avot with the Chief
<p dir="ltr">Over the course of this journey through Pirkei Avot, we have been piecing together its vision of the human being: how we think, the character we develop, the choices we make, and the responsibility we take for the world around us.</p> <p dir="ltr">In Part 6, those pieces come together around one of life's most fundamental questions:</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>What does it actually mean to succeed?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">We naturally measure a life by what someone accomplished. And as Jews, we might assume the answer is even clearer: learn Torah, fulfil the mitzvot, live according to halacha.</p> <p dir="ltr">But Pirkei Avot makes a startling claim. All of that is indispensable — and yet it is possible to do everything required of us and still miss something essential.</p> <p dir="ltr">Drawing on the Rambam, Ramban, Maharal, Netziv and the great commentators on Avot, I explore what the Rambam calls hatzlacha amitit — true success — and why the ultimate measure of a life may lie somewhere deeper than a checklist of what we have done.</p> <p dir="ltr">Because at the end of the journey stands another question entirely:</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Who did we become?</strong></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>KEY QUESTIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What does it actually mean to live a successful life?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Can a person fulfil all 613 mitzvot and still somehow miss the purpose?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why are Torah and mitzvot necessary, but not the final measure of who we become?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What does Pirkei Avot mean by shleimut — the completeness of the human being?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">At the end of a life, should success be measured by what we did or by who we became?</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
August 5, 2026
Part 5: The Ultimate Guide to Leadership | Avot with the Chief
<p dir="ltr">In this episode the journey we have been on together over this series takes an unexpected twist. It turns out that Avot is not only about who we become.</p> <p dir="ltr">It is also about leadership. And it changes what that means for each of us in a way that makes it relevant for how we live every day.</p> <p dir="ltr">One of the most famous lines in Pirkei Avot is Hillel's question: if I am only for myself, what am I? Many of us think of who we are as something fixed. A fixed size, a fixed list of people who count as ours. Hillel's question doesn't accept that. It asks how far the boundary of "I" can actually move.</p> <p dir="ltr">Drawing on the Rambam, Rav Shimon Shkop, and the opening chapters of Pirkei Avot, we begin to uncover a new concept, and it is one that changes the meaning of personal development itself.</p> <p dir="ltr">Perhaps becoming the person you're meant to be was never an inward journey alone.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>KEY QUESTIONS</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">· When you say "I," who are you actually talking about? Your body? Your family? Your people? Something wider still?</p> <p dir="ltr">· If you are only for yourself, what are you?</p> <p dir="ltr">· Is your sense of identity fixed, or is it something that can actually grow?</p> <p dir="ltr">· Can personal growth ever be complete?</p> <p dir="ltr">· What does it mean if the highest form of Kiddush Hashem required no words at all?</p>
July 22, 2026
A Nation That Dwells Alone | Tisha B'Av Night at West Str Shul
<p dir="ltr">Why has the Jewish people always stood alone?</p> <p dir="ltr">Recorded on the night of Tisha B'Av, this shiur begins with a simpler question: what does it actually mean to mourn? The grief turns out to be only the surface of it. Underneath sits something else, the very aloneness the day is built to make you feel. It's there in the halachot that shape Tisha B'Av, in the law that forbids a mezumen at the seudah hamafseket even though mourners, in every other context, are permitted one. And it's there from the very opening line of Eicha: eicha yashva badad, how she sits alone.</p> <p dir="ltr">Drawing on Rav Soloveitchik's reading of that halacha, and on the prophecy given to Bilaam that Israel would be 'a nation that dwells alone,' the Chief traces two entirely different kinds of aloneness: one born of desolation, one born of a mission nothing else can replace. He follows the thread into the present moment, into the three years since October 7th and the resurgence of antisemitism worldwide, and into where Theodor Herzl's founding assumption about Jewish history went wrong.</p> <p dir="ltr">What would it take to move from one kind of alone to the other? And on a day built entirely around loneliness, what would it mean to choose it, rather than simply endure it?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Key Questions</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What is actually happening, beneath the grief, when a person mourns?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why does Jewish law forbid mourners from comforting each other on the one day mourning is most intense?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What is the difference between a nation that dwells alone because it has been broken, and one that dwells alone because of what it carries?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Where did Herzl's founding theory of antisemitism go wrong, and what does Tisha B'Av say instead?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What would it mean to choose the very aloneness we've spent three years trying to escape?</p> </li> </ul>
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