{"id":47750,"date":"2019-01-19T18:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47750"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:33:59","slug":"leaders-behaving-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/leaders-behaving-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Did Lack Faith"},"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":[375,384,598,402],"acf":{"old_id":"47750","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33859,"related_cahpter":"137","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But not in God - in the people","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How badly must a leader behave to be removed from his position of leadership? Should a leader be treated with more leniency, weighing their sin against the merits they have accrued as a dedicated public servant? Or perhaps with greater stringency and higher expectations and demands? What types of misdeeds call for which kind of consequences? Leaders being human, and fallible, these are questions that communities regularly need to consider. Chapter 20 is not the first example of this in the Torah, but it is the most tragic, and exceedingly difficult to make sense of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was so terrible about Moses\u2019s sin? Interpretations abound, because what the Torah itself explicitly says cannot be accepted at face value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBecause you didn\u2019t believe in me to sanctify me in the eyes of my people.\u201d What has Moses\u2019s life been if not a sustained attempt to sanctify God\u2019s name in the eyes of the people? How could Moses possibly be accused of a lack of faith in God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is a problem of faith which emerges from many of the understandings suggested of Moses\u2019s words of actions. \u201cListen, you rebellious people. Will we bring forth water from this rock for you?\u201d Moses lacks faith in the people. After 40 years, Moses stands before the \u201cNew Jews\u201d, the people who are meant to now enter the land, and hears the exact same complaints he heard 40 years before. Are these a people deserving of miracles? 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