{"id":48438,"date":"2019-01-29T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48438"},"modified":"2022-08-23T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:05:14","slug":"of-kings-and-prophets-power-and-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/of-kings-and-prophets-power-and-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Kings And Prophets, Power And Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[806,402,397,503,412],"acf":{"old_id":"48438","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"144","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The words of the prophets continue to inspire by the sheer force of their vision and ideals","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God tells Moses to appoint Joshua, \u2018a man in whom is the spirit\u2019. He gives him precise instructions about how to arrange the succession:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTake Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him. Have him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence. Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him\u2026 At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.\u201d (Num. 27:18-21).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three actions involved here: [1] Moses was to lay his hand on Joshua, [2] have him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly, and [3] give him \u201csome of your authority [<em>me-hodecha<\/em>]\u201d. What is the significance of this threefold process? What does it tell us about the nature of leadership in Judaism?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beneath these enigmatic words is a fundamental truth about leadership\u2026 the three-fold process through which Joshua was to be inducted into office had to do with the three types of leadership. Specifically the second stage \u2013 \u201cHave him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence\u201d \u2013 had to do with the fact that Moses was not a priest. His successor had to be formally recognised by the representative of the priesthood, Elazar the High Priest.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Power and influence are often thought of as being the same kind of thing: those who have power have influence and vice versa. In fact, though, they are quite different. If I have total power and then decide to share it with nine others, I now have only one-tenth of the power I had before. If I have a certain measure of influence and then share it with nine others, I do not have less. I have more. Instead of one person radiating this influence, there are now ten. Power works by division, influence by multiplication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses occupied two roles. He was the functional equivalent of a king\u2026 A king had power. He ruled. He made military, economic and political decisions. Those who disobeyed him faced the possible penalty of death. A prophet had no power whatsoever. He commanded no battalions. He had no way of enforcing his views. But he had massive influence. Today we barely remember the names of most of Israel\u2019s and Judah\u2019s kings. But the words of the prophets continue to inspire by the sheer force of their vision and ideals. As Kierkegaard once said: When a king dies, his power ends; when a prophet dies, his influence begins.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses was to confer both roles on Joshua as his successor\u2026Moses gave Joshua his power and his influence. The first was essential to the political and military tasks ahead. But it was the second that made Joshua one of the great figures of our tradition. Influence is simply more enduring than power. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influence and Power (Covenant &amp; Conversation, Pinchas 5777)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":57303,"id":57303,"title":"isam8-king","filename":"isam8-king.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-kingly-compromise\/isam8-king\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam8-king","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":57301,"date":"2019-06-12 20:14:00","modified":"2022-08-23 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