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Chapter 4 discusses what these days seems like a rarity: leaders taking responsibility for their actions. The Torah lists three possible scenarios where a leader must bring a communal offering. The first is a high priest who makes a mistake. The priest must bring a bull offering. The priest must have made an unwitting wrong decision and acted on that decision. The bull must be presented in front of the Mishkan and only then brought inside. The presentation of the sacrifice in front of the tent is meant to show that the leader is taking responsibility and not hiding from the mistake.\u00a0 It is interesting that in this case we have a bull as the offering that a high priest must bring. The Torah usually tries to avoid a reminder of the sin of the Golden Calf with communal offerings, but perhaps the connection between Aaron\u2019s mistake with the golden calf made this relevant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second sacrifice is brought by the entire community. Commentators explain that this means that the community as a whole was given a wrong ruling by the overarching legislative body, the Sanhedrin. Again, a bull is brought in front of the Mishkan for all to see. Similar to the high priest, the bull is used as the communal offering most likely as a stark reminder to the people of the danger of mistakes by the community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The third case is when a prince or political ruler makes a mistake. The prince does not bring a bull. Instead, the prince brings a goat. Ibn Ezra explains that a goat walks with its head held up in a haughty manner. The message to the ruler is that they are not above the law and must be careful not to walk in such a haughty manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As an educator and parent, I encourage my students\/children to admit their mistakes and apologize for them. I tell them that it is OK to make mistakes as long as they learn from them. And I teach them that intent - <\/span>mens rea<\/span><\/em> - is what distinguishes a mistake from a crime.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These ideas are reflected in Leviticus 4, where the Torah details the \"sin offering\" - a sacrifice brought by someone who accidentally transgresses a Biblical prohibition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah\u2019s initial scenario is one where the High Priest accidentally transgresses a prohibition for which he would be obligated to bring the sin offering. It then discusses what happens when the court makes a mistake in a ruling that causes the people to err and finally, at the end of the chapter, it discusses how this applies to the everyday person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does the Torah distinguish between the High Priest and ordinary Israelites? And why does it start at the top and work its way down?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer lies in the distinction of the consequences for an intentional and unintentional transgression, as well as the nature of the office of the High Priesthood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to tradition, the Sin Offering is only offered for a prohibition whose punishment - <\/span>if done intentionally<\/b> - would be \u201ckaret<\/em>\u201d (being cut off). While the nature of this punishment is not very clear many commentators see it as a divine punishment that is meted out either through an early death or childlessness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The position of the High Priest is hereditary, passed from father to son: only if the HP did not have any children would the position pass to a different family. So if the HP intentionally transgressed a Biblical prohibition, he would run the risk of an early and\/or childless death and the loss of his legacy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, if the HP transgressed due to an honest mistake, the process for complete atonement and absolution would be the sin offering. He must admit his mistake, atone for it and learn from it. While somewhat embarrassing the HP cannot lose his position - regardless of public opinion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Torah\u2019s model what is true for the HP is also true for the ordinary Israelite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We live in a hypercritical society where mistakes - intentional or otherwise - are quickly and publicly exposed in a way that causes tremendous damage to one\u2019s reputation and career. This is true at the highest levels of power and exposure - and there are times when it is justified.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But how we treat our leaders ultimately impacts how we relate to other human beings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our children are watching us and learning from us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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>\r\n

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 \u201cshegagah<\/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>\r\n

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 (nasi<\/em>), and the fourth is an ordinary individual.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In three of the four cases, the law is introduced by the word 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 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 nasi<\/em>, the Torah uses the word \u201cwhen,\u201d not \u201cif.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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>\r\n

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In the opening verse of our chapter, the Bible prescribes that any person who accidentally or unintentionally violates a commandment should bring a c<\/em><\/span>hattat<\/span><\/em> offering in the sanctuary. At face value, this direction is somewhat startling. Of course one should incur guilt, request forgiveness and otherwise be held accountable when the violation was a willing infraction. But why the fuss for an unwitting action? One could argue that the very notion of \u201can accident\u201d undermines the sense that the action could be defined as sinful. If I didn\u2019t mean it, think it, consider it, or intend it, why am I responsible at all?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If you have spent time with young children, you know how hard it is to teach them to take responsibility for their actions -- or for their bodies in space. But one of the key lessons I work at teaching my kids is to redirect their gaze from their own intent towards the suffering or pain of the person affected. You certainly did not <\/span>mean to hurt<\/span><\/em> when you used those harsh words, but there you have it-- another one is suffering, at your hands. If they can truly take that in, not only do they feel responsible, but they need comforting of their own.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we cause pain without intent -- or in the plain sense of Leviticus, when we act carelessly with divine expectations -- we are in need of comfort of our own. Finding oneself suddenly off kilter and distant from the sacred center can induce a feeling of dislocation or unanticipated loss. \u00a0Being summoned to offer a korban chattat<\/em>, in this sense, is to accept a divine invitation back into relationship, to come close again, to reconnect. Ultimately, we need to take radical responsibility for all of our actions and words, even when they slip from us unplanned. But at the same time, we can be kind to ourselves and embrace the opportunity for healing. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the child who has been hurt is up and running again, I always hug the one who did damage just a bit longer.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Comfort Of Sacrifice","tile_main_caption":"We need to take radical responsibility for all of our actions and words, even when they slip from us unplanned","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And embrace the invitation to return to relationship, the opportunity for healing","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"4","chapter_main_number":"94","date":"20260107","wall_id":"94"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"400","name":"Sin","old_id":"800"},{"term_id":"468","name":"Relationships","old_id":"868"},{"term_id":"571","name":"Repentance","old_id":"971"},{"term_id":"582","name":"Healing","old_id":"982"}]},{"order":7,"id":"44363","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Wanted: Leaders Who Can Take Responsibility for Their Actions ","post_title":"Wanted: Flawed Leaders Who Can Take Responsibility For Their Actions","slug":"wanted-leaders-who-can-take-responsibility-for-their-actions","old_id":"44363","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":37918,"post_title":"Shai Held","slug":"shai-held","old_id":"37918","first_name":" Shai ","last_name":"Held","description":"Rabbi Shai Held, theologian, scholar, and educator, is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at Hadar, where he also directs the Center for Jewish Leadership and Ideas. A 2011 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, Rabbi Held has been named multiple times to Newsweek\u2019s list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America. He holds a doctorate in religion from Harvard; Rabbi Held's first book, Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013; The Heart of Torah, a collection of essays on the Torah in two volumes, was published by JPS in 2017.","short_description":"Rabbi Shai Held is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at Hadar,","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":37919,"alt":"","title":"shai held","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","width":150,"height":186,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","medium-width":150,"medium-height":186,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","medium_large-width":150,"medium_large-height":186,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","large-width":150,"large-height":186,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","1536x1536-width":150,"1536x1536-height":186,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","2048x2048-width":150,"2048x2048-height":186,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","post_full_size-width":150,"post_full_size-height":186,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shai-held.jpg","home_baner-width":150,"home_baner-height":186}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"94","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The leader does not sin despite his exalted position but precisely because of it","post_main_content_content":"

Human societies require leaders. But with hierarchy of any kind comes the perennial temptation of abuse of power. It may be almost inevitable that leaders will stray, and sometimes even commit grave crimes. The path fallen leaders choose has vast implications not only for the leaders themselves but also for the entire society they lead. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chapter catalogues the various situations in which a purification offering (c<\/em><\/span>hatat<\/span><\/em>) is required. After opening with a general description\u2014\u201cWhen a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Lord\u2019s commandments about things not to be done, and does one of them\u201d (Leviticus 4:2)\u2014it goes on to describe the requirements in each case. The same introductory word\u2014\u201cif\u201d (<\/span>im<\/span><\/em>)\u2014is employed each time: \u201cIf (<\/span>im<\/span><\/em>) it is the anointed priest who has incurred guilt...\u201d (4:3); \u201cIf (<\/span>im<\/span><\/em>) it is the whole community of Israel that has erred...\u201d (4:13); and so on. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But one lone case reads differently: \u201cIn case (<\/span>asher<\/span><\/em>) it is a chieftain who incurs guilt by doing any one of the things which by the commandment of the Lord his God ought not to be done unwittingly.\u201d (4:22). There is something odd about this shift from \u201cif\u201d to \u201cin case,\u201d and it leaves the reader wondering why the usual formula is altered. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noting that \u201cunwittingly\u201d appears to be a misplaced modifier, the Netziv (R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, 1816-1893) understands our verse to be \u201chinting\u201d at a radical claim: \u201cThe [leader\u2019s] elevated status causes him to commit sins that are so egregious that [ordinary] people do not even commit them unwittingly\u201d (Ha\u2019amek Davar<\/em> to Leviticus 4:22). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The point these interpreters make is sobering: The leader, they argue, does not sin <\/span>despite<\/em> <\/span>his exalted position but precisely <\/span>because<\/em> <\/span>of it. Power all too often leads to a sense of not being accountable to the same standards as \u201cregular people\u201d are. So the Torah warns the leader: Your status does not raise you above the moral (or religious) law. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since leaders are only flesh and blood, they are bound to be less-than-perfect. In light of this, the question we face as a community is what kind of imperfect leaders we want. 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One of the critiques that early Christianity lobs at Judaism is the charge that there is no correction for wrongdoing. Any commandment not observed in time, any prohibition violated leaves a residue of sin that can\u2019t be removed, so that a Jew practicing their faith can\u2019t help but fall further and further into sin. According to the Christian take, only some atoning sacrifice can break the cycle, and the authors of the Epistles are only too happy to suggest just who that atoning sacrifice now is.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of course, the problem is a real one: if Judaism is a system of mitzvot, of do\u2019s and don\u2019ts, then what happens when one discovers that one did a don\u2019t, or didn\u2019t a do?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From the start, the Book of Leviticus shines as the book of atoning love. Keenly aware of this challenge to the mitzvah system, Leviticus offers a solution early on: in this chapter, we are told what to do for several categories of those who realize that they behaved improperly, either by omission or commission. In the cases of an anointed cohen<\/em> (priest), the whole community, a chieftain, or an individual, any unwitting sin can be rectified by the right offering.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That means that the individual in question has to realize that they missed an opportunity for acting in harmony with the divine, and that they seek to make it right. That inner orientation has to set the stage for the behavior that follows, otherwise it is impossible to conceive of someone thinking they need to atone. Inner clarity, resolve to change, and determination to take responsibility \u2013 these are the needed ingredients that precede any offering. The inner reorientation comes first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the inner intention isn\u2019t enough. Something wrong happened. An action that should never have been put into practice, or a chance to do right that was missed passively. These behaviors require a behavioral correction. So Leviticus steps in, and shows us how to make it right.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That keen realism and high standard permeate Jewish wisdom today as well: once you realize you missed the mark, don\u2019t just stew in regret. 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\"And if a common person commits a sin inadvertently, doing something against the Lord's commandments which should not have been done, he is guilty.\" (Leviticus 4:27)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I know that I have sinned; You know it, too.
\r\nI also know there's little I can say
\r\nto justify my deeds, that every day
\r\nis night, that every night I sin anew.
\r\nThis doesn't justify it, but I do
\r\nnot hear Your voice; I hear a stallion neigh
\r\ninstead, a ram's loud bleat, a donkey's bray.
\r\nBut even so, a sinner turns to You.<\/p>\r\n

Upon the ground are animals that crawl
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\r\nare creatures which have learned to fly, like birds
\r\nand bats and dragonflies. Above them all
\r\nare clouds that block the sky. But even so,
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  1. Mashiach<\/span><\/em>\/anointed<\/em>. Why is the high priest also called the anointed priest? Because he is anointed with oil when he assumes his office.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. For whom does the sacrifice atone?<\/em> First of all - for the Temple itself; not the person. The rationale behind the act of sprinkling the blood of the sacrifice on the various Temple vessels, is the belief that the sin destroyed the balance that makes possible the connection between heaven and earth. The sanctuary must be purified from sin, so that God can return and dwell there, amongst his people. As part of this purification, the situation of the human is also\u00a0 remedied: \u201cThus the priest shall make expiation on his behalf for the sin of which he is guilty, and he shall be forgiven\u201d (verse 35).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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