Leadership and the destination postcard: Parshat Ekev

Date

2023-07-02

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Publisher

The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership

Abstract

In this week’s Torah reading, Ekev, we are given a beautiful set of images to describe the land of Israel: “Your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill; a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey; a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper” (Deut. 8:7-9). It’s a compelling picture of the future and one that might have helped the Israelites complete the journey ahead with greater enthusiasm and inspiration. It’s also a sharp contrast to the negative images of danger communicated by the leaders who reconnoitered the land as told in Numbers 13.

Description

The weekly Bible portion

Keywords

Description of the Land, richness of the Land

Citation

Brown, E. (2023, July 2). Leadership and the destination postcard: Parshat Ekev. The Torah of Leadership. YUTorah.org. Yeshiva University.