Jewish leaders must learn to focus on cause and community and disregard self-promotion. The inability to do so resulted in the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash and can cause dire consequences for the Jewish future as well. Rabbi Shalom Hammer is a senior lecturer for the Jewish Identity Branh of the IDF, a contributing editor for the Jerusalem Post and founder and director of Makom Meshutaf, and organization which creates eductional programs that advocate tolerance and unity between religious and secular Jews in Israel. For more about Rabbi Hammer, go to this website: https://rabbihammer.com/