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ROLE MODELS JOLT LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 2014

R O L E M O D E L S ROLE MODEL, HERO, INSPIRATION Who is your?. Role model Hero Inspiration Who do you want to be like? A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people A person who stimulates and creates influential feelings and ideas A person of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities IN THE MEDIA Jolt Leadership Program Page 1

IN THE TORAH Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 42:6 I am God; I have summoned you with righteousness; I will strengthen your hand; I will protect you; I will set you for a covenant to the people, for a light unto the nations. ישעיהו מד :ו אני ה' קראתיך בצדק ואחזק בידך ואצרך ואתנך לברית עם לאור גוים: WHAT DO YOU THINK A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS MEANS? Shemos 19:6 And you shall be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. שמות יט : ו ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש: Seforno And you shall be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation and with this shall you be a treasure from amongst all of them, for you shall be a kingdom of priests to understand [to make understood] and to instruct all of mankind to call out in unison in the Name of God. ספורנה ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים. ובזה תהיו סגולה מכלם כי תהיו ממלכת כהנים להבין ולהורות לכל המין האנושי לקרוא כלם בשם ה'. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE KOHEN? WHY DO YOU THINK THE JEWISH NATION ARE COMPARED TO KOHANIM? Netziv, Bereishit 17:5 Therefore, the nation of Israel was created to be a light unto the nations, to rectify each nation with faith this is the purpose of the entire Creation: So that all the nations of the world will know that the Hand of God is strong; that נצי "ב ולזה נוצר... עם ישראל להיות לאור גוים, לתקן כל עם באמונה... וזהו תכלית הבריאה "למען דעת כל עמי הארץ את יד ה' כי חזקה היא למען יראתם את ה". ההתחלה לזה בימי יהושע שנצטווה לכתוב על האבנים תורה שבכתב בשבעים לשון, ואח"כ בא והגיע Jolt Leadership Program Page 2

you will fear God. The beginning of this process was in the days of Yehoshua (Joshua), who was instructed to write the Written Law [the Pentateuch] in seventy languages, and it continues by means of the dispersion of Israel among the nations, such that Avraham, and all his descendants, are fathers unto multitudes of nations (Bereishit 17:5). ע"י הפיזור הגדול של ישראל לזה התכלית, ולזה מבואר דאברהם וכל זרעו אבות המון גוים הם. וכל זרעו "אבות המון גוים הם". DO YOU THINK THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FULFILLING THEIR ROLE ACCORDING THE NETZIV? Lord Jacobowitz, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, quoted in Wikipedia, Jewish Principles of Faith Chosen as the pioneers of religion and morality. Yes, I do believe that the Chosen People concept as affirmed by Judaism in its holy writ, its prayers, and its millennial tradition [is valid]. In fact, I believe that every people and indeed, in a more limited way, every individual is chosen or destined for some distinct purpose in advancing the designs of Providence. Only, some fulfill their mission and others do not. Perhaps the Greeks were chosen for their unique contributions to art and philosophy, the Romans for their pioneering services in law and government, the British for bringing parliamentary rule into the world, and the Americans for piloting democracy in a pluralistic society. The Jews were chosen by God to be peculiar unto Me as the pioneers of religion and morality; that was, and is, their national purpose. CAN YOU THINK OF ANY EXAMPLES WHEN JEWS HAVE BEEN PIONEERS OF RELIGION AND MORALITY? Devarim 7:7-8 Not from your great numbers has God desired you and chosen you, for you are the smallest of all the nations. For it was because of God s love for you, and His guarding of His oath which He swore to your forefathers דברים ז :ז-ח לא מרבכם מכל העמים חשק ה' בכם ויבחר בכם כי אתם המעט מכל העמים: כי מאהבת ה' אתכם ומשמרו את השבעה אשר נשבע לאבתיכם... Midrash Sifri, VeZot HaBerachah When God came to give the Torah to Israel, He did not only reveal Himself to Israel, but to all the nations. Initially He went to the sons of מדרש ספרי כשנגלה המקום ליתן תורה לישראל לא על ישראל בלבד הוא נגלה אלא על כל האומות בתחילה הלך אצל בני עשו ואמר להם מקבלים אתם את התורה Jolt Leadership Program Page 3

Eisav (Esau) and said to them, Will you accept the Torah? They replied, What is written in it? He replied, Do not murder. They replied, Master of the universe, the entire essence of our forefather was to be a murderer! As it says, The hands are the hands of Eisav (Bereishit 27:22); and his father promised him about this, as it says, You will live by your sword (Bereishit 27:40). God went to the descendants of Amon and Moav and said to them, Will you accept the Torah? They replied, What is written in it? He said to them, Do not commit adultery. They replied, Master of the universe, our entire essence is one of sexual immorality, as it says, And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father (Bereishit 19:36). He went and found the sons of Yishmael and said to them, Will you accept the Torah? They replied, What is written in it? He said to them, Do not steal. They replied, Master of the universe, the entire essence of our forefather was to be a bandit. The nations of the world cannot say that God did not go and speak, and knock at their doors and ask them if they wanted to accept the Torah. אמרו לו מה כתוב בה אמר להם לא תרצח אמרו רבש"ע כל עצמו של אותו אביהם רוצח הוא שנ' והידים ידי עשו ועל כך הבטיחו אביו שנאמר בראשית כז על חרבך תחיה. הלך לו אצל בני עמון ומואב ואמ' להם מקבלים אתם את התורה אמרו לו מה כתוב בו אמר להם לא תנאף אמרו לפניו רבש"ע עצמה של ערוה להם היא שנ' ותהרן שתי בנות לוט מאביהם. הלך ומצא בני ישמעאל אמר להם מקבלים אתם את התורה אמרו לו מה כתוב בה אמר להם לא תגנוב אמרו לפניו רבש"ע כל עצמו אביהם לסטים היה שנא' והוא יהיה פרא אדם. לא היתה אומר באומות שלא הלך ודבר ודפק על פתחים מה ירצו ויקבלו את התורה. HOW DOES THIS MIDRASH HELP WITH THE TROUBLESOME CONCEPTS OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE? Winston Churchill, speech given in Jerusalem, 1921, cited in Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews, p. 307 What civilization owes the Jews. We owe to the Jews a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization. Jolt Leadership Program Page 4

COMPLICATED ROLE MODELS Bamidbar Chapter 20 10) And Moshe and Aharon gathered the congregation before the rock and he said to them Listen now you rebellious people, should we bring water from this rock? 11) And Moshe raised his arm and struck the rock with his staff twice, abundant water came out and the entire congregation and their animals drank. 12) Hashem said to Moshe and Aharon, because you did not believe in Me to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel therefore you will not bring this congregation to the Land that I have give them. במדבר פרשת חוקת פרק כ י( ו י ק ה ל ו מ ש ה ו אה ר ן א ת ה ק ה ל א ל פ נ י ה ס ל ע ו י אמ ר ל ה ם ש מ ע ו נ א ה מ ר ים ה מ ן ה ס ל ע ה ז ה נו צ יא ל כ ם מ י ם: יא( ו י ר ם מ ש ה א ת י ד ו ו י ך א ת ה ס ל ע ב מ ט ה ו פ ע מ י ם ו י צ א ו מ י ם ר ב ים ו ת ש ת ה ע ד ה וב ע יר ם: ס יב( ו י אמ ר י ק ו ק א ל מ ש ה ו א ל אה ר ן י ע ן לא ה א מ נ ת ם ב י ל ה ק ד יש נ י ל ע ינ י ב נ י י ש ר א ל ל כ ן לא ת ב יא ו א ת ה ק ה ל ה ז ה א ל ה אר ץ א ש ר נ ת ת י ל ה ם: WHY DO YOU THINK MOSHE AND AHARON WERE SO HARSHLY PUNISHED? WHAT DID THEY DO WRONG? Bereishis Chapter 37 8) And Pharaoh said to Yaakov How old are you? 9) And Yaakov said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourns been 130 years. Few and bad have been the days of the years of my life and they have no reached the lifespans of my forefathers in the days of their sojourns. בראשית פרשת ויגש - ויחי פרק מז ח( ו י אמ ר פ ר ע ה א ל י ע ק ב כ מ ה י מ י ש נ י ח י י ך: ט( ו י אמ ר י ע ק ב א ל פ ר ע ה י מ י ש נ י מ ג ור י ש לש ים ומ את ש נ ה מ ע ט ו ר ע ים ה י ו י מ י ש נ י ח י י ו לא ה ש יג ו א ת י מ י ש נ י ח י י א ב ת י ב ימ י מ ג ור יה ם: Midrash Agada Why were 33 years missing from Yaakov s life? Because heaven decreed, just as a person should bless on the good he should also bless on his sorrows and he did not do so. At the time when Pharaoh asked him how old he was, Yaakov said to him short and bad: and the words used were 33 מדרש אגדה ולמה נחסרו משנותיו של יעקב ל"ג שנים, על שדבר כלפי מעלה, דקיימא לן כשם שמברך אדם על הטובה כך יברך על החילוף, והוא לא עשה כך, לפי שבשעה ששאלו פרעה כמה ימי שני חייך ויאמר יעקב אל פרעה מעט ורעים )בראשית מ"ז ח' ט'(, ומנין התיבות הם שלשה ושלשים תיבות:: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YAAKOV S COMPLAINTS? WHY IS HE SO HEAVILY PUNISHED? Jolt Leadership Program Page 5

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS Jolt Leadership Program Page 6