To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

In To Heal a Fractured World (2005), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks sets out Judaism's ethics of responsibility, the obligation to act rather than wait for others or for God to repair what is broken. Drawing on the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic teaching and stories from Jewish history, Sacks explores charity, justice, kindness and the idea of tikkun olam, repair of the world. He argues that meaning is found not in self-preoccupation but in acts of service to others, and that religious faith should show itself in the good it does.