Leadership: Learn to Lead Like Moshe - Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein

there's a beautiful story about the base halevi one of the giants of the 19th century a great a genius of torah but also a man with tremendous sensitivity towards jews there was a woman who came to ask the basal lady during the busy season for rabbis during prior to pesach and she asked them whether she could use milk for the four cups for the dollar places for pesach and the base allevia responded that according to allah it's permissible obviously the base allevia and her both understood that it wasn't ideal but permissible the term in halacha is kamar medina and he suggested it was okay immediately after the woman left the basal levy called over his shamish his right-hand man and he said make sure that this woman's entitlement from the kupa shelter from the community charity should be doubled [Music] because the basal levy didn't only hear a halachic query he thought about what was behind the question this was something that the basal levy embodied in his talmudic study understanding what was below the words or beyond the words what was implicit and not explicit and the same he thought in regards to this woman's needs if she's asking about milk then that means that she will not eat meat at the pesach meal and that's not something she chose that was something that she had to live with and that basically had the sensitivity to want to change that this ability to notice that which is sometimes missed where the question is not a question but there's something deeper where the situation is not just as it seems was embodied by the ultimate leader may sharpen the torah dosha describes that when moshe saw the burning bush it wasn't simply that he saw the burning bush and god appeared to him that's not what the torah says the torah says moshe said asura let me please turn [Music] all of those levels of prophecy were only going to be significant if he reached the ultimate of what the goal of avodah is whereabouts describes as the shameless completion of decision and that in this case was hashem saw that he noticed he noticed and that allowed all the other hard work of 80 years all of that other all that hard work of growth made him now worthy because he noticed things that others had walked past he noticed a jew another being beaten he got to that place because he noticed another sheep that had one sheep had run away and he followed that sheep and now he noticed a phenomenon in nature a phenomenon that the amsterdam represents all referred to is as the mixture of both spirituality and physicality and he asked damshanavarevi says let me please look the basalevi didn't just respond and answer the question and notice but he found the appropriate way to address the issue sometimes there is an individual who has the depth the knowledge and even levels of sanctity but is missing in the level in terms of being able to do it with softness and humility the base halevi approached the issue with softness and humility he didn't approach the woman right away and say i see you need charity he thought about it sometimes we notice something we're on the way but it has to be done with the appropriate [Music] you