Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book ‘Lessons in Leadership.’ As we have seen in both Vayetzei and Vaera, leadership is marked by failure. It is the recovery that is the true measure of a leader. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reasons. The first is external. The time may not be right. The conditions may be unfavorable. There may be no one on the other side to talk to. Machiavelli called this Fortuna: the power of bad luck that can defeat even the greatest individual. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we fail. Such is life.