Toward the end of the Book of Genesis, two future leaders seem to emerge from among the sons of our patriarch Jacob: Judah and Joseph. Judah is a leader who learns, who suffers ups and downs and encounters failures, but knows how to acknowledge his mistakes and take responsibility for them. Joseph is a natural leader who reaches that status almost automatically and becomes viceroy of Egypt. Yet, after Genesis...
Leaders in spite of their ancestry / Parashat Va'era
The Book of Exodus highlights a new leader not emphasized in Genesis - Moses, the son of Amram, of the Tribe of Levi.
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Yakov Meir


