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Reclaiming Shepherd Leadership — For Our Leaders, For Ourselves

JL;DR SUMMARY Yiscah Smith explores the concept of "shepherd leadership" in Jewish tradition, using Moses as a model. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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LeadershipMosesRashiJewish TraditionCommunityIndividualityRabbeinu BahyaShepherd LeadershipServant LeadershipModern Jewish Leadership

Places mentioned

France
"Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki, eleventh c., France) explores an additional requirement of the Torahs understanding of servant leadership by commenting on the phrase source of the breath in the verse, Source of the breath of all flesh."
Spain
"Addressing a third component of servant leadership that Moses embodies, Rabbeinu Bahya (Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, thirteenth-fourteenth c., Spain) comments on the need for a leader who shall go out before them and come in before them (Num. 27:17) as meaning that the leader personally, and not anyone else, must always be in the front."
United Kingdom
"A Missed Opportunity R. Jonathan Sacks, (twentiethtwenty-first c., U.K.) builds on this original understanding of shepherd leadership when he writes, Each age produces its leaders, and each leader is a function of an age."
Poland
"Rav Kook (Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Kohen Kook, twentieth c., Jerusalem) considers the unique sense of intuition, which derives from the depths of ones personality as the spiritual sense . . . through which it is possible to sense God."

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