Emet Inspire - Rabbi Yaakov Musheyev - Parashat Shemini

Welcome back everyone to EMTT inspire. Um, para chimini. Wow, I love being Jewish. Hashem makes sure to point out that our leaders are not perfect and the very very very few perfect people that did exist uh they were not our leaders. Um, we are told that King David's father, Yishi, was a perfect person. He never did anything wrong, but he wasn't our leader. And the reason why Hashem didn't choose him to be the leader is because he wouldn't be able to relate to anyone, right? How can you be the leader over people that you can't relate to? Uh, you've never done anything wrong. Why would I go to you for advice? So, Hashem chooses King David. And sure enough, there's actually a uh a statement in the TA that says that recommends communities that they should not hire a rabbi over their community or a leader over their community that does not have some form of skeleton in the closet. He has to have some form of skeletons in his past, of course, that he's repented from. Um so that uh he doesn't uh become too uh too wrapped up in his in his uh authority uh figure uh position and uh instead uh he should look at himself as one of the people um so he does not take advantage of his position. So this week let's be inspired that we are not shooting for perfection. We are simply shooting for the best that we can get. The best that we can demand from ourselves with a healthy balance of family, work, um, spirituality and, uh, tying everything everything together with the best that we can do. And we should not get down on ourselves too much for the things that we do wrong. We should inspire ourselves and hold ourselves accountable. Have an amazing weekend. [Music]