Behold My Servant

Elul is the month the Hebrew calendar sets aside for honest self-examination, the long runway into the high holy days. Son of David spent this Shabbat inside it, two weeks out from choosing a new congregational leader. Scott said the prospect of getting that wrong is terrifying, and he came to the bima carrying Moses’ words from Exodus 33, that if the presence does not go with us, we are not budging.

So he asked the room to guess. In all sixty-six books of the Bible, how many times does the word leader actually appear?