{"id":44365,"date":"2018-11-20T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=44365"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:32:52","slug":"for-leaders-to-err-is-all-too-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/for-leaders-to-err-is-all-too-human\/","title":{"rendered":"For Rulers To Err Is All Too Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[402,354,400],"acf":{"old_id":"44365","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"94","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"There is no textbook that infallibly teaches you how to lead: it's easy to get it wrong, hard to get it right","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our chapter implies. The real issue is how he or she responds to those mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point is made by the Torah in a very subtle way. Our parasha deals with sin offerings to be brought when people have made mistakes. The technical term for this is \u201c<em>shegagah<\/em>,\u201d meaning inadvertent wrongdoing (Leviticus 4:1-35). You did something, not knowing it was forbidden, either because you forgot or did not know the law, or because you were unaware of certain facts. You may, for instance, have carried something in a public place on Shabbat, either because you did not know it was forbidden to carry, or because you forgot it was Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah prescribes different sin offerings, depending on who made the mistake. It enumerates four categories. First is the High Priest, second is \u201cthe whole community\u201d (understood to mean the great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court), a third is \u201cthe leader\u201d (<em>nasi<\/em>), and the fourth is an ordinary individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In three of the four cases, the law is introduced by the word <em>im<\/em>, \u201cif\u201d \u2013 if such a person commits a sin. In the case of the leader, however, the law is prefaced by the word <em>asher<\/em>, \u201cwhen.\u201d It is possible that a High Priest, the Supreme Court or an individual may err. But in the case of a leader, it is probable or even certain. Leaders make mistakes. It is the occupational hazard of their role. Talking about the sin of a <em>nasi<\/em>, the Torah uses the word \u201cwhen,\u201d not \u201cif.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason leaders \u2013 as opposed to judges and priests \u2013 cannot avoid making mistakes is that there is no textbook that infallibly teaches you how to lead. Priests and judges follow laws. For leadership there are no laws because every situation is unique. As Isaiah Berlin put it in his essay, \u2018Political Judgement,\u2019 in the realm of political action, there are few laws and what is needed instead is skill in reading a situation. Successful statesmen \u2018do not think in general terms.\u2019 Instead \u2018they grasp the unique combination of characteristics that constitute this particular situation \u2013 this and no other.\u2019 Berlin compares this to the gift possessed by great novelists like Tolstoy and Proust. Applying inflexible rules to a constantly shifting political landscape destroys societies. Communism was like that. In free societies, people change, culture changes, the world beyond a nation\u2019s borders does not stand still. So a politician will find that what worked a decade or a century ago does not work now. In politics it is easy to get it wrong, hard to get it right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sins of a Leader (Covenant &amp; Conversation, Vayikra 5774)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":49844,"id":49844,"title":"dt6-good and right-1066","filename":"dt6-good-and-right-1066.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dt6-good-and-right-1066.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-no-good-without-compromise\/dt6-good-and-right-1066\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt6-good-and-right-1066","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":49827,"date":"2019-02-20 03:49:28","modified":"2022-06-14 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