Two weekends ago, the 19 members of cohort 4 met for the first time since our Shabbaton at EKC. Besides learning that lap tag is only meant to be played at night, and that Jonathan has a low threshold for pain, we learned more about ourselves as Jews. We attempted to answer the question “what is a leader?” with this week’s Torah portion. After sharing our experiences from last Rosh Hashanah, we discussed a poem by Edgar Keret. Later in the workshop, we worked on “elevator speeches” to pitch the Diller program to prospective applicants, and signed up for committees, which managed to do with only one person ending up on the floor. We concluded by sharing our favorite part of the session and a word to describe how we felt. Some people felt energetic, others even claimed that they felt invigorated, but the general consensus among the group was that we were all excited about what was to come in the Diller program.