Lessons on Jewish Leadership From Fig Trees & "Ross the Fig Boss"

His name is Ross the Fig Boss. He's a real life character now boasting more than 43,000 subscribers to his platform, an online workshop and course and place to consume his content surrounding the topic of fig tree harvesting and health. I kid you not, he's actually quite the entrepreneur. He gives lectures, authors, books, all about the topic of a Te'ayna a fig. And why this is today's topic is because what you may not know is, in fact, that Hakkodeish Baruchu took the khokhmah of a fig tree and looked at that in order to select the next great Jewish leader. Yes, allow me to explain. The Magrish rabba tells us that Moshe Rabbenu asked Hashem to elect the next successor, the next great Jewish leader, and Hashem's response a pusuk. In Mishleh Proverbs 27, 18,. The verse state that notes there Te'ayna yoychal piriah that he who tends to the fig tree will eat its fruit, says the Magrish. Go select Yehoshua because he arose early in the morning to arrange the study hall. Who Masad er Esasaf Sulem? he arranged the chairs in the study hall in the base Magrish and he would smooth out the tablecloth in the base Magrish and he would serve you and he was your proper attendant. Therefore, kach lechoh es Yehoshua ben nun, in order to fulfill. Lekaya mashenemar notes there Te'ayna yoychal piriah. He who tends to the fig tree will eat its fruits, unbelievable And what you may not know about the khokhmah of a fig tree, the Vilna Gown points out, the Malben points out that every single day a fig tree must be tended to. You can't select its fruits just at the beginning of each season, at each harvest. No, every day you must feel it, you must examine the tree. Each fruit is its own little sukiah, its own topic. And that individual who every day is in the trenches with the klal, works hard every morning with every individual. That's the next great Jewish leader. The same way, dawid Amelich says his hands were filled with blood because every day he was with the common folk examining halachuch shailahs. Including blood that his hands became bloody because, notes there, te'ayna yoychal piriah. Jewish leaders are masters. They are the exemplar of getting involved in the dirty work of the klal and building up a nation from within, intending to each an individual fig.