{"id":66555,"date":"2019-12-05T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=66555"},"modified":"2023-07-02T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T10:58:25","slug":"wanted-leaders-to-inspire-a-better-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wanted-leaders-to-inspire-a-better-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Leaders To Inspire A Better World"},"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":[539,402],"acf":{"old_id":"66555","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46656,"related_cahpter":"366","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Needed now, as much as then\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early in this chapter Isaiah defines the ideal king with the very poetic analogies of a leader who will be \u201clike a refuge from gales, a shelter from rainstorms, like brooks of water in a desert, like the shade of a massive rock in a languishing land. (32:2).\u201d Rav Schwab, in <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rav Schwab on Yeshayahu<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> quotes the opinion of Julius Hirsch (son of Samson Raphael Hirsch) that these words are a description of a righteous king\u2019s influence on his nation. By setting the example of righteousness, goodness and kindness, a leader inspires his nation to follow suit and \u201cact as a shelter to his fellow man in times of trouble and need, and be a source of nourishment, refreshment, shade and protection during times of drought and exhaustion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is more of a personal musing than a biblical text analysis, but after I studied this chapter in which the Prophet addresses societal structure and how it is impacted by its leadership, I spent several days considering what this looks like today. And during those days, though I sadly didn\u2019t encounter many examples of how a society is uplifted by its leaders, I did encounter several examples of how society is lowered by poor leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week alone, in my own backyard, Canada\u2019s Prime Minister broke with fifteen years of opposition to UN Israel-bashing, betraying this country\u2019s Jewish community. In the same week, students at a major Canadian university who wanted nothing more than to have kosher food options on campus were told no, that would be too pro-Israel. And at the very university at which I work, anti-Israel BDSers protested a pro-Israel event with shouts of \u201cviva intifada\u201d and physical violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While one can\u2019t draw causal relationships from one event to another, or one individual to collective behavior, it is hard to deny that leadership, be it national, institutional, global, regional, religious or secular, sets a tone that will eventually be mirrored. And so, here we are, in a world of divisiveness, isolationism and anti-Semitism rising at a frightening pace, with what seems like a plethora of world leaders who are lowering their respective national consciences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are badly in need of leaders who, like Isaiah described, will nurture a better world than this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: The 50 world leaders most followed on facebook \/ public facebook profiles<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":66556,"id":66556,"title":"is32-world leaders","filename":"is32-world-leaders.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is32-world-leaders.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wanted-leaders-to-inspire-a-better-world\/is32-world-leaders\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is32-world-leaders","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":66555,"date":"2019-12-05 11:28:38","modified":"2019-12-05 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