Portraits in Leadership: Judah the Prince

Enroll Today!! For more info visit http://myjli.com. Lesson Six: THE VISION TO LEAD Hard times can make heroes of us all. But there are some who do not need crisis to force their hand. They have the imagination and the vision to picture a life beyond anything they have known, and the will to make that vision a reality. Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi came from a respected family. He was a wise and talented student and enjoyed wealth and authority. He was a great statesman, a close personal friend of the emperor of Rome. He led the Jews through a period of relative peace and prosperity. Yet he remembered the hard times that had preceded him, in which Torah had almost been forgotten from Israel, and he resolved to ensure that the Jewish people would never face this crisis again. With vision and ambition, Rabbi Yehudah decided to organize all of the oral tradition into written form, preserving it for all generations. His monumental task was achieved with the recording of the Mishnah.