The lies of leadership: Parshat Toldot

Date

2022-11-24

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Publisher

YUTorah Online

Abstract

Trust could not be more critical now in leadership or more absent in our everyday discourse. “A world of truth is a world of trust,” writes Rabbi Sacks in Morality, “In it, there is something larger than individuals seeking their own interest. Truth becomes the intellectual equivalent of a public space that we can all inhabit, whatever our desires and predilections”. It’s our responsibility to instill and restore trust so that it fills a public space we can all inhabit.

Description

Weekly Torah portion

Keywords

Parshat Toldot, Esau (Biblical character), Jacob (Biblical character), Isaac (Biblical character), Laban (Biblical character), Rebecca (Biblical character), moral commitment, deception, lies, trust

Citation

Brown, E. (2022, November 24). The lies of leadership: Parshat Toldot. YUTorah.org. Yeshiva University.