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Almost Daily Jewish Wisdom at Beit Hamidrash of Woodland Hills — Leadership. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00I want you to be happy. I don't want you to do it. You'll be always happy. Don't worry. We want to thank Miami for sending us their best. You know, this is the way to go. We're choosing Adabinette over there. I got to tell the rabbi. Amazing. Which rabbi are you at? Young Israel and Kendo with Rabbi Herschel Becker. Herschel Becker? I got to send them a message. You need to send more people like you over here. We need good people like that. It's interesting, you get to the story. Why does Moshe have to be in the palace of the king? I mean, all places have to be in the palace of the king. It's a little bit strange. What's it got to be over there in the palace? You being groomed for leadership.
1:00So the simple explanation, many of them are first in the commentary say, is that Moshe Rabbeno was a king. He was a mellach. He was the leader of the Jewish people. He had to be schooled. You can't just not everybody could be a leader. And everybody could be a leader. Sometimes you have a leader. He's just not polished. I don't want to mention any names. But there's some people that's just not polished. They're going to be a good leader, but they're missing in the palace. There's something to be statesmanship. There's something to know how to conduct yourself, how to give an air of royalty. I mean, always remember when President Reagan was shot. President was shot. So if you remember, when they were rushing to the hospital, so they rushed him. So they wanted to carry him in on a stretch. He was shot. He was in the special carburetor. And it's a limo.
2:00And they rushed him to the hospital. So they wanted to have the stretcher come to the limo to take him out. So he said, no, he's going to walk in. Because the president of the United States, the people have to see. That the president is OK. People have to see. So if you remember the story, right? As we have it, right? He buttons his jacket. He walked in. The door is closed. And he collapsed. Right? This isn't an air. I mean, that's why the president Reagan had the largest funeral. Everybody said it's not by coincidence. Nobody went to President Carter's funeral. Nobody's interested in president. It's a certain people know. So there's a certain he had to be trained. So that's a simple explanation that the commentary is bringing down. Is that Mosher had to be schooled. Right? He had to be schooled in there. What it means to be royalty. But there's another idea. Is that you're everything that Pharaoh was.
3:03Mosher was the opposite. It's crazy. Everything Pharaoh was. Mosher was the polar opposite. And I'll explain to you what I mean. Pharaoh was the greatest example of a coffee table. A person who denies the good that's done to him. Mosher Abayno is the greatest Machia table. The greatest person who recognizes the good and goes out of his way. Pharaoh goes out of his way to pain the people, to ignore the people, to be distant from the pain of the people. Mosher Abayno, he leans in toward the pain of the people. Pharaoh owed Mosher, owed the Jewish people a lot. Well, y'all come out now. The simple one commentary is that it was the same Pharaoh that was by Joseph. Even if it wasn't the same Pharaoh. All the wealth that Pharaoh had,
4:03whether you think he came from. He came from the Jews. From who? He came from Joseph. Joseph is the one that made him an empire. Egypt was not the empire of the world. He's the one that transferred all of the wealth of that of the Middle East. He made it to the empire that it was. Right? And what did Pharaoh do? I said, I don't remember. Mosher Abayno was taken away from his mother. We said earlier this morning by the age of two. Right? He was not home. He wasn't 12 years later, 13 years later. He became the Prince of Egypt. So he goes out where does he go? He goes to his brothers. Go to the movies and go to the party life. You're the Prince of Egypt. Right? Anywhere you go, you get you have to go there.
5:04And it says that. If I ate Salah, it says because it wasn't in that area. The palace was in the capital city. The slave area, the building where it was taking place, was far away from there. Right? Pharaoh. He was in the party. He didn't want to see the pain of the Jews. Mosher, who doesn't know the Jews, anything. So in a certain way, he was taking away his little baby. He goes over to his brothers. They had the polar opposites of personalities. Because the truth is that that is really, all of us have to realize what the Mosher obeyed who teach us. No sun, aim of the libel, the earth, mates are alay him. It wasn't only he didn't even, not only did he want to do good for the Jewish people. He wanted to put his eyes and his heart to see the pain of his fellow brothers. Right? The measures described, he would like help them. Right? He was the one that told Pharaoh through the course of his governmental skills.
6:04He told them they need Saturday off. We had talked about whatever he could do to help. He wanted to feel their pain. That is the hallmark of leadership. Right? To be able to feel the other pains. That's why the measures says Mosher, Abeino and David Amelik, both of them were shepherds. Why were they shepherds? Because how did they care for the flock? Right? When the shepsilla was thirsty. Right? The measures says, he put them on his shoulders and he carried, he said, the little sheep alive. He didn't know that you were thirsty. I'll carry you to the water. Because that is the hallmark. That's the hallmark, the test of a Jewish leader. It's not about hiding himself in the palace and pampering himself with pleasure. But really, rather feeling the pain of his fellow brothers, asking how he could help. We have a desler. We have a desler in his last years.
7:07So when he would speak, he would quote me, Jewish him. So we have a la piano. It was the biggest tomat of a desler. So he would have all of the notes. And in the notes, he would write, we're not able to find the medrush. We're not able to find the medrush. It seems that the desler had passed away already when they printed it. So he said, I, we can't find the medrush. He said, it wasn't only once or twice. He said, when he was speaking at the last years, we couldn't find everything that he had said. So he's one fascinating, he quotes a medrush. And he says that we know that God and Moshe were in a conversation for seven days. Yes, we didn't know with him. Yes, we didn't know with him. We didn't find somebody else at that moment. So Desler said that there was another argument that Moshe put forth, a condition, that Moshe put forth in the redemption that he put down as one of the conditions that he would agree,
8:07only by that, if God gave it to him, they'll be to be the Redeemer. He says, well, desler, as I heard it from my Rabbi, if he's going to give Tsukha Lakhvada Kinder, if he's going to give candies for the children, in order to be a leader, he says, I need the candies for the children. That the leader has to take everything into account. Oh, I got the big picture. I'm sure of any, I'm sure of any of us teaching us as part of the being the big pictures. You need the small picture too. You want to be able to bring the children. You have to have candies for the children. That's the idea of each person. You have to deal with them in the way that they need. How am I going to uplift that person? How am I going to connect with that person? I'm going to help that person. That's what a Jewish leader is. He's not an animal, an animal, an animal, an animal. He is made to live his heart and his eyes. Like, looking, what could he do? Understanding each person, what can he do to help them?
9:07That is the sign of a truly great leader in a Jewish people. That's the sign of a Jewish community.
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