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Bamidbar

In the desert is where you learn what counts in life. Enumerating is another word for eternalizing. In the wilderness, leaders are made – and born. When you travel you learn a lot more about yourself than when you are stagnant. You learn about holiness, priestly blessings and red heifers. You learn how scary it is to leave the wild for the Promised Land. You learn turning a comatose state into living water is best done through articulating, rather than implementing. Devastating things happen in the wilderness as well: the greatest people pass away, kings try to curse you, brothers argue with one another. But, ultimately, the curses turn into blessings, the passions for good overcome the opposite and, through countless journeys, you learn what it means to inherit, possess, and cherish a land promised.

Taking a census of the people leads to a unified consensus.

Leadership is about being a head, while encouraging others to head in the right direction.

Your raise the lights. But even more: the lights raise you.

We scout the land not to see if we can conquer it. We scan the land to see how we can conquer it.

Equality is more about being different than it is about being the same.

Truths aren’t written unto your soul. Truths are engraved into your soul.

When one attempts to curse a blessed entity, the blessed remains blessed and the cursed remains cursed.

Be a fundamentalist. Fundamentally good. Fundamentally holy. Fundamentally divine.

Tribes are like branches of the same tree. When they are together they are unbreakable.

The journey of life is perpetual. Every stop is a start in the right direction.