Torah Ideals

Real leadership lies in the ability to motivate a people to recognize what needs to be done and inspire them to do it.  The rarity of leaders, however, is not merely a symptom of contemporary society.  At the outset of the Second Temple period, Ezra the Scribe awakened the collective conscience of a nation.  Read about it in my current article in JWR:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/jhistory15.php3