Did you know?

Did you know that all Jewish kings and leaders have a commandment to be very mercifull? Did you also know that the Jewish kings were the only one's who were not dependant on their weapons?

We learn this from Jacobs blessing to Judah, if one would read the Hebrew text, he would find that in the entire blessing all the letters of the Hebrew Alef-Bet are present, besides for the letter Zayin. Zayin is also a hebrew word which literally means weapon. The absence of the ltter is due to the lack of reliance of the weapon to win a battle, but rather the Miricals of G-d. Even though we are commanded not to rely upon miricals, (and hence the reason the kings still used weapons in the first place,) but we must still pray for one!

(On a side point, we see this from the 6 day war and the Yom Kippur war. Four major country's against the tiny, and hardly developed Israel! Just think about it!)

Josef said it best, when his brothers saw taht now thier father is dead they feared that all along Josef didn't take revenge on his brothers for their fathers sake. Now that their father is gone, he might do something. Josef said "Am I in G-d's place? Do I have power to harm you? Here you wanted to harm me, but G-d made it turn out for the best. Although you were many, you couldn't harm me. Since I am one, and you are many, how would it be possible for me to harm you? Father had 12 sons paralleling the 12 hours of the day. 12 signs of the Zodaic, 12 montsh of the year, and 12 stones are in the High priests breastplate. Can I remove even one of you? True that I am your head, since the birthright has been given to me, still you are the body. What value does a head have without its body, or with some part of the body injured? My greatness is only known because of you, before I was known to be a slave that made it by. Yet, since you came they realised that I was from an important family."

We see from here that a leader, or in our day to day live's a boss, must be very merciful and forgiving to his/her employees, even though they depend on the boss, but still the truth is that the boss very much depends on his workers. If he is mean to them, he might lose them, and mess up his business by them not working well. Doing so he could end up in eventual bankrupcy. The boss must remember that the head hurts when the body is ill! He must remember that a head is worth nothing without a body!

Do only good!
A good shabbos!

Derived from Me'am Loez, Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yafeh Orhar, and Bachya.
©Yermi Kurkus - Did you know