A handbook for the guidance of an enlightened elite

An enlightened elite brought Japan, over the 150 year-long span from 1820-1970, from a sequestered island nation to the greatest growth in GDP on Earth. Most of all, the Chumash is a handbook for the guidance of an enlightened elite. That's the vision: a robust, inspired, young, enlightened elite that would bring the Jewish people into their future and that would ignite the world with an example of sustainable, replicable, beneficent leadership that does not submit itself to the temptations of hubris but who serve instead in stewardship with humility and wisdom. The right model for Israel is not 20th century Singapore but 19th century Japan. Japan's growth over the 19th and 20th centuries was 25-fold, as compared to America's 18-fold, Germany's 15 and England's 10. Japan's system centered on an enlightened industrialist core revolving around the keiretsu families, which identified the nation's welfare with their own; and on a strong-minded government bureaucracy that transcended the pushes and pulls of the elected politicians. The highest authorities in Japan (those in electoral government and in the military) tend to be relatively weak.