Leadership as Service If you seek to understand an accusation, look at the accuser, not the accused. Think, for example, about one of the most famous of anti-Semitic myths – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the classic account is Norman Cohn’s ‘Warrant for Genocide’; more recently the distinguished Israeli jurist Hadassa Ben Itto published […]
A Lesson in Conflict Resolution The Korach rebellion was the single most dangerous challenge to Moses’ leadership during the forty years that he led the people through the wilderness. The precise outline of events is difficult to follow, probably because the events themselves were tumultuous and disorderly. The narrative makes it clear, however, that the […]
Arguments for the Sake of Heaven The Korach rebellion was the worst of many in the wilderness years. It involved senior figures – Korach himself, a member of Moses’ tribe, together with leading Reubenites, and 250 others, “well known community leaders.” So grave was it that it became, for the sages, a paradigm of the […]
