Vision and Details (Mispatim 5781)Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conve
Vision and Details (Mispatim 5781)Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will continue to distribute these weekly essays so that people all around the world can keep on learning and finding inspiration in his Torah.Here is the essay for this week’s parsha of Mishpatim called ‘Vision and Details’: https://rabbisacks.org/mishpatim-5781/ and an extract below.—The Torah is a unique combination of nomos and narrative, history and law, the formative experiences of a nation and the way that nation sought to live its collective life so as never to forget the lessons it learned along the way. It brings together vision and detail in a way that has never been surpassed.That is how we must lead if we want people to come with us, giving of their best. There must be a vision to inspire us, telling us why we should do what we are asked to do. There must be a narrative: this is what happened, this is who we are and this is why the vision is so important to us. Then there must be the law, the code, the fastidious attention to detail, that allow us to translate vision into reality and turn the pain of the past into the blessings of the future. That extraordinary combination, to be found in almost no other law code, is what gives Torah its enduring power. It is a model for all who seek to lead people to greatness.The Office of Rabbi Sacks -- source link
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