His last book, Morality, while written before the spread of coronavirus, is highly relevant to today’s situation. He would not have been silent were he still with us, and his voice is sadly missed.

Jonathan Sacks is one of the great moral thinkers of our time. His latest book, Morality, applies his powerful approach to the unprecedented challenges of our time – social, political, economic, and above all, cultural. May his words be heeded throughout the land.

the work will stand as a worthy successor to, and, in many respects, summation of Sacks’s impressive oeuvre

Sacks unpacks a whole litany of dystopian trends arising from our relentless preoccupation with me, me, me

Sacks presents an articulate and impassioned argument . . . He is a fine exegete of the Hebrew Scriptures, and his belief in the common good is profound.

The strength of Morality does not reside in Jonathan Sacks’s discussion of political and philosophical theorists, but in those passages in which he speaks to us as rabbi and community leader.

‘Sacks argues convincingly that this pursuit of the common good has been disappearing from the West, and has left us impoverished and damaged.’

The inheritor of a tradition with a long historical memory of loss, exile, death and mourning, Sacks has things to say that speak more directly to our present condition than anything in recent liberal thinking.

‘Let Us Dream thus joins a growing body of Covid-era literature calling for a communitarian reset of liberal values and institutions… Morality by the late Jonathan Sacks have all traversed similar territory. The collective pro noun is back in fashion.’

And so this last book reads like a summation of his life’s work – a propitiously timed gift and a starting point for discussion.