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Learning and Leadership

Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book “Lessons in Leadership.” The parsha of Shoftim is the classic source of the three types of leadership in Judaism, called by the Sages the “three crowns”: of priesthood, kingship and Torah.[1] This is the first statement in history of the principle, set out in the 18th-century by Montesquieu in “L’Esprit des Lois” (The Spirit of Laws) and later made fundamental to the American Constitution, of “the separation of powers.”[2] Power, in the human arena, is to be divided and distributed, not concentrated in a single person or office. ....

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Frontiers | Singing the Individual: Name Tunes in Oyda and Yopno

Music beats spoken language in identifying individuals uniquely in two disparate communities. In addition to their given names, which conform to the conventions of their languages, speakers of the Oyda (Omotic; SW Ethiopia) and Yopno (Finisterre-Huon Papuan; NE Papua New Guinea) languages have ‘name tunes,’ short 1-4-second melodies that can be sung or whistled to hail or to identify for other purposes. Linguistic given names, for both communities, are often non unique: people may be named after ancestors or contemporaries, or bear given names common to multiple individuals. But for both communities, name tunes are generally non-compositional and unique to individuals. This means that each new generation is likely to bring thousands of new name tunes into existence. In both communities, name tunes are produced in a range of contexts, from quotidian summoning and mid-range communication, to ceremonial occasions. In their use of melodies to directly represent individual people, the O ....

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