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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Korach 5727 DIVIDED IN ORDER TO BE ONE

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Korach 5727 DIVIDED IN ORDER TO BE ONE. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT Summaries of points of the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת קרח תשכ''ז ד''ה ויקח קרח בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Korach 5 Tammuz 5783, 24 June 20231 DIVIDED IN ORDER TO BE ONE ORACH EXPRESSES THE CONCEPT OF ‘DIVISION’ AS IS K SEEN IN THE TARGUM AT THE beginning of the Sedra: ‘And Korach divided’. Ethics of the Fathers (5:17) says the Machloket of Korach will not last, which is not a condemnation but a positive prediction, that ultimately the physical will not be dislocated from the spiritual, as Korach wanted, but joined. Torah teachings are holy – please treat these pages with care 4 The Sages tells us that Aaron would make peace between conflicted people by telling each one that the other really wants to make peace (Avot of Rabbi Nathan, 12:3). The negativity implicit in this division, which is the source of all future division, is seen by the fact that the Torah does not write “it is good” regarding the work of the second day, unlike the other days of Creation. There is a similar distinction between Moses and Aaron: Moses sought to make sure that all was correct according to the Torah (like Shammai), while Aaron was like Hillel, 2 Bereishit Rabah, beginning of ch.5. Hence on the third day of Creation ‘it was good’ was said twice, once for that day and once for the second day, the day which had the division of the waters, the spiritual source of all conflict. This contrasts with the machloket of Hillel and Shammai, generally understood as their many disagreements in the Talmud on halachic issues, which was leShem Shamayim, for the sake of Heaven. The division of the waters is the source of the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, of the division associated with the Tower of Babel, and eventually also the rebellious division of Korach. The source of all such division is the first division in the Torah which was on the second day of Creation, when G-d said ‘let there be a firmament in the midst of the water’. He would rather leave the physical unconnected with holiness, like the Tower of Babel of the Generation of the Division, which symbolized the power of Man against that of G-d.

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