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We are planning for the future of our shul and interested in learning of those committed to the organization. We invite men and women to sign up Leadership strategy to be shared shortly. Volunteers to support summer programming welcomed. HERE for our in-person daily and Shabbat minyan at TRI, located at D'var by Rabbi Sacks zt"l 295 S. Locust St, and our additional Shabbat Outdoor Auxiliary Minyan, Rabbi Sacks z’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book located in the Polotsky backyard at Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will carry on distributing these essays each week, 7369 E Byers Ave. All davening times so people around the world can continue to learn and be inspired by his Torah. and classes are published on our website and calendar. There is a lovely moment in this week’s parsha that shows at the height of his generosity as a leader. It comes after one of his deepest moments of despair. The people, We request that you wear a mask if you as is their wont, have been complaining, this time about the food. They are tired of the are not vaccinated. manna. They want meat instead. Moses, appalled that they have not yet learned to accept Shabbat Minyan at TRI: the hardships of freedom, prays to die. “If this is how You are going to treat me,” he says FRIDAY to God, “please go ahead and kill me right now – if I have found favour in Your eyes – and Mincha/Kabbalat do not let me face my own ruin.” (Num. 11:15) Shabbat/Maariv: 6:30 pm

SHABBAT God tells him to appoint seventy elders to help him with the burdens of leadership. He Shacharit: 8:00am does so, and the Divine Spirit rests on them all. But it also rests on two other men, Eldad Mincha: 7:50pm and Medad, who were not among the chosen seventy. Evidently Moses had selected six Maariv: 9:01pm men out of each of the twelve tribes, making 72, and then removed by Outdoor Auxiliary Minyan: . Nonetheless, they too were caught up in the moment of inspiration. FRIDAY Mincha/Kabbalat , Moses’ deputy, warns that this is a potential threat, but Moses replies with Shabbat/Maariv: 7:50 pm splendid magnanimity: “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people

SHABBAT were and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon each of them!’ (Num. 11:29) Shacharit: 9:30am This contrasts sharply with Moses’ conduct later when his leadership is challenged by There will be a cholent kiddush after Korach and his followers. On that occasion he showed no gentleness or generosity. To the davening at the OAM at around 11:15 am in honor of Hanah Polotzkys contrary, in effect he prays that the ground swallow them up, that “they go down alive into promotion to Vice President of Kaiser the realm of the dead.” (Num. 16:28-30) He is sharp, decisive and unforgiving. Why the CO and their wedding anniversary this different response to Korach on the one hand, and Eldad and Medad on the other? week!

Friday Night: Shema should be To understand this, it is essential to grasp the difference between two concepts often recited after 9:06pm confused, namely power and influence. We tend to think of them as similar if not Shabbat: Shema to be recited before identical. People of power have influence. People of influence have power. But the two 9:16 am are quite distinct and operate by a different logic, as a simple thought experiment will show.

Imagine you have total power. Whatever you say, goes. Then one day you decide to share your power with nine others. You now have, at best, one-tenth of the power you had before. Now imagine instead that you have a certain measure of influence. You decide to share that influence with nine others, whom you make your partners. You now have ten times the influence you had before, because instead of just you there are now ten people delivering the message.

Power works by division, influence by multiplication. Power, in other words, is a zero-sum game: the more you share, the less you DAT Minyan is a dynamic and friendly Modern Orthodox congregation for all ages and dedicated to meaningful personal spiritual development, community growth, youth involvement, Torah education, and Religious Zionism. D'var Torah by Rabbi Sacks (continued) have. Influence is not like this, as we see with our Prophets. When it comes to leadership-as-influence, the more we share the more we have.

Throughout his forty years at the head of the nation, Moses held two different leadership roles. He was a , teaching Torah to the and communicating with God. He was also the functional equivalent of a king, leading the people on their journeys, directing their destiny and supplying them with their needs. The one leadership role he did not have was that of High Priest, which went to his brother .

We can see this duality later in the narrative when he inducts Joshua as his successor. God commands him: ‘Take Joshua son of Nun, a man of spirit, and lay your hand on him … Give him some of your honour (hod) so that the whole Israelite community will obey him. (Num. 27:18-20)

Note the two different acts. One, “lay your hand [vesamachta] on him,” is the origin of term s’michah, whereby a Rabbi ordains a pupil, granting him the authority to make rulings in his own right. The Rabbis saw their role as a continuation of that of the Prophets (“Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua; Joshua to the elders; the elders to the Prophets; and the Prophets handed it down to the men of the Great Assembly,” Mishnah Avot 1:1). By this act of s’michah, Moses was handing on to Joshua his role as Prophet.

By the other act, “Give him some of your honour,” he was inducting him into the role of King. The Hebrew word hod, honour, is associated with kingship, as in the biblical phrase hod malchut, “the honour of kingship” (. 11:21; 1 Chronicles, 29:25).

Kings had power – including that of life and death (see Joshua 1:18). Prophets had none, but they had influence, not just during their lifetimes but, in many cases, to this day. To paraphrase Kierkegaard: when a King dies his power ends. When a Prophet dies his influence begins.

Now we see exactly why Moses’ reaction was so different in the case of Eldad and Medad, and that of Korach and his followers. Eldad and Medad sought and received no power. They merely received the same influence – the Divine Spirit that emanated from Moses. They became Prophets. That is why Moses said, “I wish that all the Lord’s people were Prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit on them.”

Korach, or at least some of his followers, sought power, and power is a zero-sum game. When it comes to malchut, the leadership of power, the rule is: “There is one leader for the generation, not two.” In kingship, a bid for power is an attempted coup d’etat and has to be resisted by force. Otherwise the result is a division of the nation into two, as happened after the death of King . Moses could not let the challenge of Korach go unchallenged without fatefully compromising his own authority.

So clearly demarcates between leadership as influence and leadership by power. It is unqualified in its endorsement of the first, and deeply ambivalent about the second. Tanach is a sustained polemic against the use of power. All power, according to the Torah, rightly belongs to God. The Torah recognises the need, in an imperfect world, for the use of coercive force in maintaining the rule of law and the defence of the realm. Hence its endorsement of the appointment of a King, should the people so desire it. But this is clearly a concession, not an ideal.

The real leadership embraced by Tanach and by is that of influence, above all that of Prophets and teachers. As we have noted many times before, that is the ultimate accolade given to Moses by tradition. We know him as Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses our teacher. Moses was the first of a long line of figures in Jewish history – among them , Hillel, Rabban

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. D'var Torah by Rabbi Sacks (continued)

Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Akiva, the Sages of the and the scholars of the Middle Ages – who represent one of Judaism’s most revolutionary ideas: the teacher as hero.

Judaism was the first and greatest civilisation to predicate its very survival on education, houses of study, and learning as a religious experience higher even than prayer. The reason is this: leaders are people able to mobilise others to act in certain ways. If they achieve this only because they hold power over them, this means treating people as means, not ends – as things not persons. Not accidentally, the single greatest writer on leadership as power was Machiavelli.

The other approach is to speak to people’s needs and aspirations, and teach them how to achieve these things together as a group. That is done through the power of a vision, force of personality, the ability to articulate shared ideals in a language with which people can identify, and the capacity to “raise up many disciples” who will continue the work into the future. Power diminishes those on whom it is exercised. Influence and education lift and enlarge them.

Judaism is a sustained protest against what Hobbes called the “general inclination of all mankind,” nameless “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” That may be the reason why have seldom exercised power for prolonged periods of time but have had an influence on the world out of all proportion to their numbers.

Not all of us have power, but we all have influence. That is why we can each be leaders. The most important forms of leadership come not with position, title or robes of office, not with prestige and power, but with the willingness to work with others to achieve what we cannot do alone; to speak, to listen, to teach, to learn, to treat other people’s views with respect even if they disagree with us, to explain patiently and cogently why we believe what we believe and why we do what we do; to encourage others, praise their best endeavours and challenge them to do better still.

Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.

Community Announcements

Denver Academy of Torah thanks Hashem for and expresses pride in the members of its 2021 graduating class. Ellie Avner, Nili Fischer, Eliana Fishman, Kaufman, Noam Narrowe, Shevi Parkoff, Max Weiser, and Wortrich are upstanding men and women, who have demonstrated a commitment to academic excellence, personal growth, Torah-observance, and the State of Israel. The senior class will be studying at yeshivot and seminaries in Israel next year before continuing on to prestigious colleges and universities, where most plan to pursue careers in health and the sciences. Mazel tov to our next generation of leaders! There will be a cholent kiddush after davening at the OAM at around 11:15 am in honor of Hanah Polotzkys promotion to Vice President of Kaiser CO and their wedding anniversary this week! TJE invites the community to an EPIC Summer Concert with Mordechai Shapiro, Wednesday night, June 16th at the gorgeous outdoor Levitt Pavilion. Early-bird tickets available through Sunday night. Details at THEJE.COM You are invited to please join Yoel Engel at an Open House as he celebrates 3 years since BMT. Sunday, May 30th, 3:30-5:30PM at 511 S. Magnolia Lane. Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. Weekly Learning Opportunities at the DAT Minyan!

Join Ellyn Hutt on Tuesdays from 2 pm– 3 pm for a women's "Words of Wisdom" class. Join Ellyn in delving deeper into the significance of Hebrew words from each week's parsha or related to the upcoming holiday for personal inspiration and spiritual connection. Meeting ID: 884 9530 8316. Parsha for Women class led by Ellyn Hutt on Thursdays from 11 am– 12 pm. Each week the Torah portion for the week gives us insight into how we can live our lives more meaningfully and mindfully. Join Ellyn as we explore and chart our spiritual journey in sync with the parsha. Meeting ID: 922 119 870 Spiritual Fitness Wednesdays with Chaya Parkoff: Join Chaya Parkoff Wednesday’s at 3pm and pump some spiritual iron together! How can you cultivate an attitude that can allow you to live with mental well-being no matter your current circumstances or the challenges you may face? Join Chaya for a weekly "spiritual fitness" class where you will learn from various Torah sources how to develop and strengthen the two most powerful spiritual muscles we possess: Emunah (faith) & Bitachon (trust). Zoom link HERE.

DAT Minyan acknowledges milestones* of our members this Shabbat and in the coming week:

Ellyn Hutt, Deirdre Schreiber, Alex Polotsky, Shimon Stroll

Alex & Hanah Polotsky- 21 years & Barbara Schwartz- 38 years

*These details were obtained from the DAT Minyan database, which contains information provided by our members when they joined. We apologize for any omissions or errors. For changes, please log on to your account and update the information as needed, or contact the synagogue office at 720-941-0479.

Refuah Shelayma Please include the following names in your prayers. May each be granted a Refuah Shelayma. Names are kept on the list until the next . Help us keep the list accurate by verifying the necessary details each month on the Cholim Document at https://goo.gl/aeyJG2.

Asher Menachem ben Y’shayah Guy Chaim ben Rita Mordechai ben Chaya Avraham Mordechai ben Chaya Leah bat Simcha Raphael Lior ben Avram ben Golda Simma Levick Yitzchak ben Bracha Roshka bat Bryna Bella bat Malka Leya bat Sara Sara bat Laurel Borukh ben Eydya Malka bat Mazel Tov Shmuel Aharon ben Jenny Dina Bat Sara Mascha bat Rus Yehuda ha cohen ben Rivka Dovid Mordechai Ben Bayla Rifka Mayer Benya ben Nechama Yonatan Leib Volf HaLevi ben Altahenya Shulamit Eliyahu Chaim ha Cohen ben Sara Rifka Mendel Ila ben Frida Miriam Yonatan Zeev ben Netaa Eliyahu Dovid ben Ita Sheiva Michael ben Kay Chaya Sarah Rivka bat Leah Eric Fagen, Mordechai ben Shanah Leah Michel ben Leah Yossef ben Gershon ben Galina Michoel Zisel ben Barbara Zusha Tzvi ben Chaviva Elianah Miriam Adina bat Sara

The Rabbis in our community have created a registry for those that are ill with COVID-19. The Denver Cholim Registry can be accessed at www.denvercholimregistry.weebly.com. Should you or someone you know need to be added to this registry, please contact Rabbi Gitler.

Please help make our prayer service more meaningful by refraining from talking during the service. THANK YOU LEGACY DONORS FOR INSPIRING FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH YOUR GENEROSITY!

We would like to thank our Legacy Society donors for investing in our future by naming the DAT Minyan with a gift in their will, trust, retirement account or life insurance policy. Our Legacy Society includes:

Annonymous Steve and Elly n Hutt Stuart Senkfor & Marc and Melanie Avner and R achel Rabinovitch Leslie Stewart Graeme and Irit Bean Mark and Sarah Raphaely Michael Stutzer

Myndie Brown Harley and Sara Rotbart Steve and Lori Weiser

You can add your name to this list with a legacy gift to the DAT Minyan. To arrange for your gift or for more information about our Legacy Society program, please contact any of the following Committee Members: Sarah Raphaely, Steve Weiser, or Maya Parkoff