{"id":59321,"date":"2019-07-12T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=59321"},"modified":"2023-02-05T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:16:37","slug":"a-leadership-principle-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-leadership-principle-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leadership Principle For The Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/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":[414,402],"acf":{"old_id":"59321","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"262","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Those who cannot participate are still an integral part of the community, and we take care of them\u00a0","content":"

Throughout Tanach we learn lessons on leadership from both major and minor characters:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Nachshon Ben Aminadav led by personal action and example while demonstrating his underlying faith in God when he walked into the Red Sea (Exodus 14);<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Moses demonstrated how to choose a successor by stipulating that he must be able to serve each member of the community as a unique personality (Numbers 27); how to target a message to an audience by contextualizing the word of God for his followers (Deuteronomy 5) and how to allow for compromise while maintaining the integrity of the law by distinguishing between what is \u201cright\u201d and what is \u201cgood\u201d (Deuteronomy 6);<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022The early Judges unified the tribes in order to achieve a national inheritance (Judges 16); and<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022Samuel evoked a revolutionary shift in the national consciousness by bringing the Israelites to a state of spiritual readiness to be led (Samuel 7).<\/span><\/p>\n

In all of these instances the lessons are under the surface of the story, sometimes only illuminated by commentaries. But in this chapter David does something that is not only explicit in its illustration of leadership but lays the foundation for what became \u201c<\/span>a statute and an ordinance for Israel until this day (verse 25).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in this chapter we read of a young Egyptian slave who became ill and was abandoned by his troop and left to die. When he was no longer able to participate actively with the community he was no longer of any value. In juxtaposition to this episode, when the men of David\u2019s army suggested that their war booty be shared by only those who actively engaged in battle, David invoked a principle of social equity. No, David said, those who were too weak to go into battle are still an integral part of the community, and we take care of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

That lesson of taking care of all members of our community is not a hypothetical or one-off lesson: it\u2019s a leadership principle worthy of encoding into law, because it\u2019s not situational, not negotiable – it\u2019s the underpinning of a socially just society and representative of the kind of kingdom David will seek to establish.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":59322,"id":59322,"title":"isam30-pie","filename":"isam30-pie.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-leadership-principle-for-the-ages\/isam30-pie\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam30-pie","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":59321,"date":"2019-07-12 14:29:32","modified":"2022-11-14 16:38:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"A Leadership Principle For The Ages","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Those who cannot participate are still an integral part of the community, and we take care of them\u00a0","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":59322,"id":59322,"title":"isam30-pie","filename":"isam30-pie.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-leadership-principle-for-the-ages\/isam30-pie\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam30-pie","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":59321,"date":"2019-07-12 14:29:32","modified":"2022-11-14 16:38:36","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam30-pie-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112375,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59321\/revisions\/112375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}