Shalom Aleichem Chevra, so good to have you here!
How far should a real Jewish leader actually go to reach the person who has completely checked out — and how do you make sure you don't lose yourself in the process?
In this shiur we dig into the fourth principle of our Jewish leadership master class series — and it might be the most practically challenging one yet. The question Rav Moshe Chaim brought to his Rebi, Rav Yoel Rakovsky Shlita, was simple and honest: if people aren't showing up, if they have no kli to receive anything, do you go to them? And the answer he got back was three words that opened up a whole world: even under the table.
To unpack that answer, we read through Rebbe Nachman's story of the Turkey Prince, found in the stories of Reb Noson. A royal prince has lost his identity entirely — he thinks he is a turkey, sits unclothed under the table pecking at scraps, and every royal physician has given up on him. Then a sage comes, strips down, gets under the table with him, and the two of them become friends. From there, slowly and strategically — shirts, then pants, then real food, then finally the table itself — the prince is fully brought back. No rushing. No forcing. The sage never stops being a sage the entire way through.
We spend real time unpacking what made this sage effective: he was clearly D1, he had a strategy, he worked with the king's servants as backup, and he genuinely cared about the prince without any concern for his own image. The Chevra brought up some sharp questions too — about where the line is between meeting someone where they are versus using things like physical attraction or external incentives as tools in outreach. We get into Resh Lakish and Rebbi Yochanan, the concept of kavod and nikbadus, what a genuine Shabbos table communicates that no billboard ever could, and why the beauty of a Jewish home should never be manufactured or put on display — it should just be real. The shiur closes with a question about Bilam and the daughters of Moav from this week's parsha, and what it means that all the permitted pleasures of the world are on the side of kedusha, not against it.
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