Day 33
King David: Small but Mighty
My involvement in Holocaust education began in Tokyo with Righteous Gentile, Chiene Sugihara. This essay is for amazing people who risked their lives for our people. Scott Saunders, March of the Living UK.
Sometimes the underdog really does win. The person or team least likely to triumph has an unexpected victory, and it gives the rest of us hope. We, too, may be down and out on our luck, smaller or less powerful than our competition, but we, too, might be able to conquer or win, beat the odds or battle the giants.
This is the message of popular writer Malcolm Gladwell’s last book, David and Goliath. He wants us to think differently about perceived obstacles and disadvantages and question assumptions. Going to a mediocre university may be better for you than a top tier institution. A disability may prove your greatest strength. Discrimination may actually work in your favour.
Gladwell begins his thesis with our very own King David. What was it about the early David that made him Israel’s most popular king, a man to whom we still dedicate a children’s song in school and camp, “David, king of Israel, lives forever”? What is it about David’s tenacious spirit that still lives with us eternally?
