Lots (literally) in this Torah portion. The message gifted to me by Rabbi Carla Freedman was “…that goodness must reach a critical mass in order to offset the evil around it.” Critical mass – the minimum size or amount of something needed required to maintain or start a venture. How does it feel to be […]
Chukat – Patience as a Virtue of Leadership
The Torah portion Chukat has many facets, but I focused on the well-known story-line where Moses loses his patience and strikes the rock twice to get water after G-d had told him to speak to the rock. I’ve found that there are a couple of great leadership lessons here. On the surface, the takeaway is […]
Korach – Leadership Lessons from Moses
This week’s Torah portion is called Korah (with a guttural “kh” at the end) after the name of the Bond villain in the storyline. It’s a fairly gruesome section of the Torah, starting with an insurrection by Korah and ending with Korah, his 250 followers, and all of their families being swallowed up by the […]
Sh’lach L’cha – Fear-mongers and Slanderers
Who knew that if you only took the time out to read and think, you would find that the problems we have in society today existed millennia ago! Sh’lach L’cha talks about, among many other things, fear-mongering and slander and their impact on the court of public opinion. The reaction of the Israelites to the […]
Birthright
Early one morning last week my daughter got on a plane. for a 10 day birthright trip to Israel sponsored by the Jewish Federation. The holiest site to the Jewish people is called Hakotel HaMa’aravi or The Wailing Wall. This is a small section of the Western Wall of the Second Temple and is the […]