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The organization’s most dangerous enemy is already within: Business insights from the weekly Torah portion
Ki Teitzei: Organizations often focus on external threats while overlooking the internal forces that undermine them; Ego, fear, incentives and sunk costs can distort decisions - true leadership requires the courage to confront what lies within
Ziv Elul | 08.19.26
Leadership
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
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
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Harvesters
Can your organization stop before reality forces it to?
Shmita does not promise freedom from fear or risk; it disrupts the illusion of control and asks what security rests on; Rabbi Isaac Arama offers managers a lesson in faith, risk management and the courage to test an organization while it still works
Ziv Elul | 08.06.26
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
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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
בדידות
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
When the fox enters the boardroom: What crises reveal about leadership
Business insights from the Torah: Rabbi Akiva’s encounter with a fox after the destruction of the Second Temple offers a lesson for leaders: crises should not be reduced to slogans about opportunity, but used to uncover hard truths, learn and rebuild 
Ziv Elul | 07.22.26
התלבטות
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
Matot
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
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
אילוסטרציה מטבע חוץ
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
Hearing, seeing and the destiny of Israel: two outsiders, two visions
This week’s Torah portion contrasts Balak’s fear-driven view of Israel with Jethro’s deeper understanding, arguing that one saw only military power while the other recognized a moral mission whose blessing extends beyond the Jewish people
Michael Eisenberg | 06.26.26
צאצא של שור הבר בצ'כיה
Why great leaders don't have to be everywhere
The Torah portion of Balak offers an unexpected lesson in management: Lasting influence comes from building trust, shared language and strong institutions, not from making every decision or attending every meeting
Ziv Elul | 06.25.26
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