Awakening the Spark Within : Five Dynamics of Leadership That Can Change the World

Nearly 2000 years ago, the Zohar, the classic text of the Kabbalah, predicted that in our day and age - "beginning in the six-hundredth year of the sixth millenium" - revolutionary advances in secular knowledge would burst forth and flood the world. The Kabbalah predicted the resulting upheaval that is now causing the world, unable to adjust to the astounding speed of change, to reel in chaos. We face a crisis situation at all levels of society; wherever we look we see dysfunction, instability, turmoil, apathy and confusion. At the crux is a crisis in leadership. Corruption in the highest ranks of almost every nation on the globe that has left the world suspicious of any individual's motives and ability to lead. What is the solution? The answer that Kabbalah offers is that when enough individuals cultivate their own personal qualities of leadership, these collective efforts will spiritually empower the potential true leaders and allow them to rise and assume responsibility. The five dynamics of leadership explained in this book are not external strategies of power politics but rather potent tools for contacting dormant powers of the soul. Whether you envision yourself as a potential leader or just want a leader you can be proud to follow, learning these mystical dynamics will change your life. And once the stage is thus set, the Untimate Leader will emerge to fulfill the hopes of all good people the world over.

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh is one of the foremost expositors of Kabbalah and Chassidism in our time. He heads educational centers in Jerusalem, Hebron and other cities in Israel. He has written over 30 books in Hebrew and English. He lectures widely in Israel and around the world.

Rabbi Ginsburgh was born in Missouri, in 1944. With an MA in Mathematics, he moved to Israel in 1965. After studying in Yeshivas in New York and Jerusalem, he began teaching in 1970 and was soon well-known for his clarity in elucidating even the most abstract concepts in Jewish mysticism and relating them to contemporary issues in science, psychology, politics and the arts. Tying together a wide range of topics, his insights open a window into a higher dimension of reality and reveal the Divine unity underlying all of creation.

Rabbi Ginsburgh lives in Kfar Chabad, outside of Tel Aviv, with his family.