King David's Lessons on Healthy (and Unhealthy) Succession Planning
By Rabbi Rebecca Lillian, Shir Hazafon: Progressive Judaism in Denmark. Three dearly important mentors of mine are retiring this year. Each one created, nurtured and led transformative projects. They were teachers and models to a generation of Jewish leaders. It’s hard to imagine those organizations without these individuals at the helm. Yet many Jewish organizations face similar concerns as their founders step down. Avrum Lupin notes in eJewishPhilanthropy that too little is being written about the many challenges faced by the organizations that they leave behind. This prompted me to look at what our texts teach about succession planning. What