Religious Competition
Alexander the Great and the Two Litigants:
A Case of Religious One-Upmanship
A number of aggadic passages depict Alexander the Great's moral encounters with the kingdoms he conquered. One aggada (Vayikra Rabba 27:1) touches on an issue that spiritually-involved people often become preoccupied with - religious competition. . .

Competition and Creative Solutions
"The Land of the Rabbis": Competition and Compromise
How do the sages of the Talmud work out a conflict?
Kiddushin 59a
Dealing with conflict and competition is one of the most difficult (but most common) challenges of human interactions. A passage in the Talmud Kiddushin 59a gives us a glimpse at how two sages deal with a unique episode that forced them into competition over a field. . . .