Did Moshe Think He Could Handle 3 Million Fights? | Likkutei Sichos, Yisro

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

successor and he asked a simple and extraordinary question and gave a very profound answer and the question is in the torah portion of israel it says that jethro moses father-in-law came to visit him and what does a father-in-law do when he comes to visit his son-in-law he started to give him aces he started to give him advice and he told them it's not good the way you're running the country the way you're running the people what happened he saw that moses was sitting all day from that moses was sitting all day from morning to night teaching every single jew who had a question dealing with every disputation with every debate with every quarrel with all the bickering and all the infighting every financial moral ethical civil spiritual dispute everybody came to moses to moshe and he was literally handling every person every problem every challenge every doubt jethro told moses yisra told moshe naval jethro told moses yisra told moshe naval tibo you're going to wither away lo tova davra taosa this is not a good idea you can't sit alone and judge 3 million jews it's like i would tell you that you have to answer 3 million emails a day or even 3 000 emails a day you'll go crazy moses this is not going to work you have to delegate you have to learn how to delegate if you do not delegate everybody will crumble crumble you will be destroyed the people will be destroyed and jethro tells his son-in-law you have to delegate and confer responsibility over people appoint what we call middle management to run the nation and then everything will fall into place and the torah says moses obeyed his father-in-law and the commentators and the rebbe asked a very obvious question you need a rocket scientist to tell you

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