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Last Shabbat we read triennial cycle for Yitro. I missed the Ten Commandments, but am always fascinated by Yitro/Jethro and his sage advice to Moses. Moses wanted to do it all! He had the most special connection to God and wanted to share it with everyone. But it can't be done... no one person can serve and touch everyone in a large community. Moses learns that he has to share his gift with others - to educate and facilitate for others to also be connectors to God.
It's a difficult and critical lesson for Moses the "First Rabbi" and almost all of us for the last 3000 years. We can set the tone, we can help with the major decisions, but we can't do it all. We have to train and inspire others to share the joys of study, worship and acts of justice and kindness. The more we empower others to do Jewishly for themselves, the more we can engage members and non-members around Jewish life, the richer and stronger our Jewish world will be. Less of the rabbi doing and more of knowledgeable and passionate Jews doing ... the better our community.