How Understanding Miracles Can Change Your Life Today | Pesach with the Chief

Miracles captivate the imagination. But what are they? Do they still exist? What do they reveal? These questions may seem theoretical. But, to understand miracles is to discover a new way to look at our lives. To change how we see the world, and how we live within it. And Pesach is the time to do it. As the Jewish people enter the month of Nissan, preparing for Pesach, the Torah places the miracles of the Exodus at the centre of our story. The ten plagues. The splitting of the sea. Moments that reshaped history. But Pirkei Avot - the great Talmudic tractate on character, growth, and human greatness - does something unexpected. In the midst of its teachings, it turns to miracles. Why? Because miracles are not only about what happened then. They raise a deeper question about what is happening now. If the same power that split the sea is required, at every moment, to sustain the world… then what we call the “status quo” may not be what we think. Chief Rabbi Dr Warren Goldstein explores this idea in a special talk for Pesach and the month of Nissan. KEY QUESTIONS Is reality fixed, or is change always possible? How does belief in miracles shape the way we see ourselves? If nothing is fixed, what does that mean about the way that we live?