Forty Two (Journeys): The Torah's Secret to Life
Tech Tribe Dispatch #310
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When the Torah lists the forty-two journeys and encampments of the Jewish people on their way to Israel, it refers to them collectively as the Exodus from Egypt.
Yet, seemingly, only the first encampment was the Exodus - all subsequent journeys were already outside of Egypt.
In Hebrew, Egypt is called Mitzrayim, a name related to the word for boundaries.
The exodus from Egypt is the journey from our own inner Egypt, our self-imposed limitations and constraints. It’s the journey away from our egos and our inner sense of entitlement to the sublime Holy Land within.
That journey, then, is one that isn’t accomplished in a single leap. Yes we can leave those boundaries behind, but the new heights we strive for today become the limitation and constraints that tie us down tomorrow.
As Tech Tribe friend Alex Kantrowitz recounts in his book Always Day One “At Amazon, "Day One" is code for inventing like a startup, with little regard for legacy. Day Two is, in Jeff Bezos's own words, "stasis, followed by irrelevance, followed by excruciating, painful decline, followed by death."
Most companies today are set up for Day Two. They build advantages and defend them fiercely, rather than invent the future. But Amazon and fellow tech titans Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are operating in Day One: they prioritize reinvention over tradition and collaboration over ownership.”
“That is why it is always Day 1,” Bezos has claimed.
As in business, as in life: The journey is the same.
Every day we must journey again from today’s sense of limitation to tomorrow’s state of possibilities and growth. And tomorrow we find, that today’s goals have become the limitations we must now surpass.
Throughout our lives, we’re constantly journeying deeper into ourselves, peeling back the layers of the glass onion, until we reach our inner Zion.
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