Erev Shabbat Parshat Vayigash - Leadership

What makes a great (proper) leader? We focus on two brothers  - Yosef and Yehuda. They both aspire to leadership, both initially failing in their attempts and both later succeeding because they manage to find the balance between ideas of leadership criteria and personal traits.

We begin back in Parashat Vayeshev, where they are at odds: Yosef understands that their life as they know it is coming to an end and that they have to prepare to meet a different reality; Yehuda believes in leaving things as they are until it is absolutely necessary to change.

They both undergo periods of hardship and challenge to eventually realize that leadership is about focusing on others more than the leader himself.