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What the Torah demands when the rules of war take over

Ki-Teitzei places laws on war, exploitation and human dignity side by side, offering a lesson for soldiers and society: fear, violence and power need not erode morality, but can deepen solidarity and responsibility

Michael Eisenberg | 08.21.26

The sin of doing nothing: what the Torah demands of leaders

The weekly Torah portion of Shoftim teaches that leaders cannot simply claim they did no wrong; from public safety to economic reform, failing to prevent harm or pursue the public good can itself be a failure of duty

Michael Eisenberg | 08.14.26

Learning from competitors without becoming them | Business insights from the weekly Torah portion

Managers love innovation, but many organizations improve through imitation; This week's Torah portion Shoftim and Rabbi Isaac Arama offer the right boundary: Tools can be learned from the outside, but purpose cannot be copied

Ziv Elul | 08.13.26

King of demons, king of loneliness: The Jewish legends of Asmodeus

Asmodeus appears in Jewish literature as a demon who threatens intimacy, family and identity; From killing seven grooms in the Book of Tobit to replacing King Solomon in a Talmudic legend, he represents humanity’s fears of loneliness, deception and hidden selves

Itzchak Tessler | 08.07.26

How can economic abundance be managed so it does not decompose national cohesion?

Beyond blessings and curses: How the Torah creates institutions for a thriving society

Parshat Re’eh reveals how the Torah moves beyond blessings and curses to address a deeper challenge: building institutions that transform material abundance into social cohesion, shared responsibility and national resilience

Michael Eisenberg | 08.07.26

Israel’s ‘thin constitution’ argument just collapsed: why the new Torah Study: Basic Law is dangerous

Opinion: If the law remains in place, Israel should counterbalance it by enshrining equality, the rule of law, separation of powers and judicial independence in its Basic Laws, preventing a one-sided constitutional framework

Yaniv Roznai, Tamar Hostovsky Brandes | 08.03.26

Devekut in Eikev: How partnership with God creates a new reality

This week’s Torah portion explores devekut (cleaving) as an active covenant with God, demanding moral imitation, human partnership and the creation of a just society

Michael Eisenberg | 07.31.26

Your organization does not need more procedures. It needs to grow up

After every mistake, organizations add forms, signatures and oversight, but Parashat Eikev and the ‘Akeidat Yitzhak’ suggest the real test of maturity lies not in more procedures, but in building a stronger organizational culture instead

Ziv Elul | 07.30.26

A lonely bird on a roof | Part 2

Weekly Torah Portion: Moses stood alone at the edge of the Promised Land, pleading to enter after 40 years of leading his people, but God refused; his final moments reveal a deeper lesson: visions survive not through one leader’s burden, but through the courage of others to carry them forward

Michael Eisenberg | 07.24.26

A lonely bird on a roof: Moses, leadership and the burden of seeing ahead

Devarim reveals that Moses’ burden was not simply managing a difficult nation, but leading people trapped in the present while he alone could see the future they were meant to build

Michael Eisenberg | 07.17.26

It's not the crisis that brings down organizations

Why successful organizations keep repeating the same mistakes — and what a 15th-century Jewish philosopher discovered about the fourth stage of leadership

Ziv Elul | 07.16.26

A tempting offer: when economic self-interest threatens national unity

Moses’ fierce rebuke of Reuben and Gad in this week's Torah portion warns against deals that let some evade shared sacrifice, even when the compromise appears profitable

Michael Eisenberg | 07.10.26

The scaffolding that became the house: the silent disease that topples leaders

From Moses and the tribes of Gad and Reuben to modern organizations, the great leadership test is remembering what was meant to serve the journey, and what the journey itself is

Ziv Elul | 07.09.26

מחאת חרדים כנגד מעצר בני הישיבות בבני ברק

Parashat Pinchas and collective illusions: when silence shapes society

This week Torah portion argues that one person's moral courage can shatter a false consensus, drawing parallels between Pinchas's zeal and today's Haredi society; The piece urges the community's silent majority to reject fear, speak truth and embrace national responsibility

Michael Eisenberg | 07.03.26

Weekly Torah portion: True leadership is tested where no one can see

Parashat Pinchas teaches that leadership is not judged only by decisive action or visible results, but by the hidden motive behind them: whether a leader is serving a value, or using that value to serve himself

Ziv Elul | 07.02.26

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