Parashat Amor: The will for motive is man’s highly effective motor

Nobody is born smart, however nobody dies with all of the information. At any given second an individual can, and is even required to develop. It’s what makes him who he’s and what he’s.

An individual who research is an individual who develops. Additionally in broad intelligence, and “information is energy”, additionally in his means to cope with complicated, altering and surprising conditions, and above all – information teaches him find out how to reside morally as a human being.

Maybe that is the explanation why the research of the Torah stands on the coronary heart of Judaism’s worldview as one of many highest values: deciphering the ‘cipher’, the key of right conduct, and the power to reside by it. This can be a course of that an individual goes by way of all through his life. That is why the Jewish phrase “talmid hacham” can also be used. The smart man can also be all the time a scholar, within the sense that he’s hungry for information, strives to be taught and seeks to develop. He by no means says to himself “That is it, I already know the whole lot, there isn’t any extra perception that can be new to me”.

Parshat of the week: Parshat Amor

This precept is taught to us by Rabbi Yitzchak Arama, one of many nice males of Spain throughout the interval of the exile, in his commentary to the Shavuot Parsha. The parasha instructs us to rely the rely of the Omer, which we rely nowadays, between Passover and Shavuot. 49 days, the place the fiftieth day is the vacation of Matan Torah.

At Passover we left Egypt, and turned from a nation of slaves right into a tiny and younger nation. However we nonetheless have not obtained what units us aside from the individuals: the Torah, the schooling, the information of find out how to reside independently that’s not based mostly on one other tradition, Egyptian on this case.

Parshat of the week: Parshat Amor

And so the individuals started to rely. Counting, in essence, teaches regarding lack, regarding passing between days, regarding expectation, regarding the truth that we’re on a journey in direction of one thing nice. As a prisoner counts the times till the second of launch, and because the employee doing exhausting bodily work counts the hours till the break or the tip of the day. The rely exhibits the internal ambition and expectation.

Yearly we repeat this rely, day following day for 49 days, with the intention to internalize this message: fixed growth is required to make ourselves higher individuals.

That is our proper, and that is our obligation. Each as managers, each as professionals, each as relations, and as human beings.

The writer is Ziv Elol, entrepreneur, investor, CEO Lips and the writer of the e book “Fathers of Administration”.“