Posts Tagged: Moses
To Improve People’s Spirituality, Improve Their Standard of Living
The Torah sometimes says something of fundamental importance in what seems like a minor and incidental comment. There is a fine example of this near...
Moses and Lessons for the US Presidential Election
As we enter 2016, our attention is constantly distracted by the US presidential elections that are eleven months away. In most countries, election campaigns last a...
Be Like Moses, Serve a Cause Greater Than Yourself
And so Moses dies, alone on a mountain with God – as he had been all those years ago when as a shepherd in Midian,...
The Torah Is the Music of the Soul
Moses’s long and tempestuous career is about to end. With words of blessing and encouragement, he hands on the mantle of leadership to his successor,...
Prophets of the Jews
According to the Talmud, the Jewish people produced 48 prophets and seven prophetesses (Tractate Megillah 14a). In the Middle Ages, Rabbenu Hananel ben Hushiel (990-1053 CE)...
Ambassador Dermer on Israeli Support for Netanyahu on Iran Deal: Moses Didn’t Have Those Numbers
Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, said on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has more support in the Jewish state for his...
Leaders Must Lead by Both Consensus and Command
What do you say to your successor? What advice do you give him or her? Vayelech is the place to look for the answer, because it is...
Defining Reality
One of the gifts of great leaders, and one from which each of us can learn, is that they frame reality for the group. They define...
A Small Unified People Can Overcome Any Enemy
Buried inconspicuously in this week's parsha is a short sentence with explosive potential, causing us to think again about the nature of Jewish history and...
Jewish Warfare: A Traditional Perspective
In the timely hour of battle between Israel and its neighbors, it is helpful to recall the timeless principles of warfare set out in the...
The Jewish Nation of Individuals
The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why it is known in English as Numbers. What is the significance of...
The Difference Between a Sprint and Marathon
It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For forty days Moses had been communing with God, receiving from him the...
How Leaders Fail: Courage to Oppose the Mob
Leaders can fail for two kinds of reasons. The first is external. The time may not be right. The conditions may be unfavourable. There may...
Judaism is a Religion of Merit, Not Monarchies
One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth century, Montesquieu called "the...
