32. Korach 5777: Leadership: Greatness And Humility ~Overcoming The Paradox

LiveFeed Link: To be created Written Notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b83sugadgqw6w7r/32.%20Korach%205777%20-Ledearship-Greatness%20and%20Humility%20-Overcoming%20the%20Paradox.pdf?dl=0 ---- More people are afraid of success than they are of failure! Hence, many people face the challenge of self-sabotage. Some general categories of reason are shame, guilt, fear of loneliness, fear of succumbing to ego and fear of losing our altruistic ideals. At the heart of all these reasons lay the paradox of success and of leadership. Leadership demands a strong self-respect, identity, certainty, and clear vision of greatness. However, if any of these mandatory leadership quality falls prey to Ego, and then the gift of leadership turns into the curse of tyranny. Thus, the very core of the necessary qualities of leadership seem to be Siamese Twins with the very core of the death trap that awaits leadership gone wrong. In this lecture we will turn to a teaching of the Rebbe, delivered in 1962, exploring the story of Korach and the 250 leaders of the Jewish people who rebelled against Moses, demanding more greatness and leadership, to the point that they each fought to become the High Priest in the Holy Temple. Korach was the cousin of Moses and is called a Pikach –Wise Man in the Torah. The 250 leaders are called, “chieftains of the congregation, representatives of the assembly, men of repute,” in the Torah. Here are men, who by the word of G-d, are worthy of leadership. What went wrong? The lesson extrapolated from this biblical story paves the bridge over which we can overcome our challenge of self-sabotage, and travel on to our success and leadership for which G-d individually intended for each of us.