Rabbi Reuven Kigel - Parashat Shemot

okay hello everyone we are in par and safer starting a new book of the Tyra so we introd we introduced to mosenu our you know our Rabbi our leader our hero really and the toyra tells us very few things about what makes him a great leader so but what they do tell us is the following thing he sees a Jew being bullied or beat up or certainly not treated well by and he doesn't stand for it and he as we know kills an anrew then a week later he sees two non-jew two Jews arguing with each other and he comes and he gives them muser he says what are you guys doing now I know why you're Egypt you're you don't have love for one another then he after he runs away from Pharaoh we see that he's at the well in in Midian and there's uh seora and her sisters are being bullied or harassed or whatever by some guys he comes over beats up the guys and brings the girl safely home then we also know in a midash that one time as he was a Shepherd there was a sheep that needed some water and the Sheep ran away so he's like chasing the Sheep sees the Sheep by the water oh little sheep if I knew you'd wanted water I would have carried you here myself so what do we see what makes a leader first of all taking responsibility second of all if you see any Injustice right whether it's non jeu vers Jew vers or two people that you're not really so connected with so then you have to act and even if it's an animal it's like a mushro it's a metaphor even if it's someone like most people wouldn't care about but you have to care and that's really makes a leader being responsible taking responsibility and making sure that there is Justice everywhere around you so anyone who's listening to this that wants to be a leader it's pretty simple I'm going to give you a beautiful analogy the imagine there's a party okay and the person whose house it is okay so they are making sure everyone's taken care of they're taking responsibility if the mess is spilled they clean it up now imagine a guest so a guest so you know having a good time thinking about himself oh what's to eat what's the drink not really looking at everyone else usually so who is the leader the one who takes responsibility the one whose house it is I heard this from a good colleague of mine Rabbi Aron D Eisman so who is the one that's the leader the one whose party it is so if you want to be a leader you want to take responsibility just pretend that the whole world is your party have a great shabas