The Proper Way to Lead - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

a while back i visited a particular institution in the jewish community and there were large banners all over this institution about the fact that they teach leadership and they produce leaders and one of the bakra one of the students of this particular institution told me that his rebbe was very unhappy with those banners because he says you don't find in jewish vernacular you don't find entire concepts in hashgaff the concept of leadership we don't strive to be leaders it's not how it works there is no base medicine that produces leaders that's not how clarisol works all our good daylim never strove to become leaders they were never elected officials they weren't even appointed officials the way that they became leaders was by self-virtue they learned and they learned and they learned some more and they were over hashem and they were hashem some more and people started understanding the greatness of these people and slowly but surely the rebina shalom facilitated their leadership abilities we know raphaem kanyevsky was just nifter rabheim's father the stipeler told him that he should never take a stellar he shouldn't take a job he shouldn't be a rob he shouldn't be a maggot cheer think about it for a moment we had the greatest in perhaps hundreds of years in claudius yet his father told him i don't want you to have a position of leadership just keep learning and that's what rebhaim did and what ended up happening he became the leader of all of claude israel the undisputed leader of the secular jewish community even in eretz israel how because he never strove for leadership yiddish guide isn't about striving to be a leader when a person becomes a leader obviously there's many things that they have to do but our responsibility our point in life is to do something very simple and that is to be the best yid that we possibly could be to constantly grow to learn more to work on our medias to increase our davening and if the rabbi has it in our career path that we should become leaders then we'll take the leadership opportunities we'll embrace them and will try to do the best job as a shliyah of the rebellion but we don't train to be leaders and we don't strive to be leaders we strive to be the best hashem that we possibly could do and then the rabbinical fills in all the blanks there's a famous story of the cutscore i think it was someone came to the cut score and they said to him rebbe it says kalabariach may not covet if you run away from honor [Music] chases you the covet comes after you he says rebbe i've been running away from honor for years and it never caught up with me and the cutscore said that's because you keep looking back to see when it's coming that's not a yiddish perspective we're not looking for the covet we're not looking for the leadership we're doing what we have to do and if the rebellion gives us the opportunity we grasp it we take it and we run