Parashat Emor

Emor (אֱמֹר — Hebrew for “Say”)

This is #Snapchatorah for where Hillel Fuld takes the Torah portion, learns some lessons and apply them to entrepreneurship and startups

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This is a very technical portion. So I thought and thought and came up with something that I think is super relevant to me, and to leaderships and entrepreneurship and startups.

So there are these priests. And they have access to the temple and can do all kinds of things that normal people can’t do. They are sort of in a way the leaders of the nation.

They are the leaders or servants?

They are the leaders who think they have more privileges right? Which they do, but this entire portion talks about in great detail all the responsible and rules pertaining to priests.

Leadership is responsibility!

Then it hit me. A good leader is one who realizes he or she has more responsibility, not only more privileges. That is the lesson of this week’s Torah portion. Often times I have come across us people who talk about their dream of entrepreneurship. With having their own startup, but do they realize that being a cofounder of a startup isn’t all techcrunch?

A good startup founder a CEO is one that takes more responsibility and less privilege. That is leadership.  That is what we learn from the priests in this week’s portion. Think you can run a successful startup without getting your hands dirty? You are in for a very big surprise, and that is what the priests teach us. The technicalities are the lessons for leadership, a good startup CEO not only is he or she not above the rest of the employees, he or she is actually the servant to serve the employees.

Just to summarize, leadership is defined by responsibility not privilege. That is why there are so many rules about priests. That is how you run a startup.

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Hillel is a Co-Founder at ZCastApp, mentor at Google, Microsoft, and many other accelerators across Israel. Add Hillel on Snapchat and Twitter