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Covenant & Conversation — power-vs-influence-korach-5786 — Korach-Chukas 5786

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — power-vs-influence-korach-5786 — Korach-Chukas 5786. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Power versus In uence Korach rebellion was an unholy alliance of What is most extraordinary about the episode, individuals and groups united by their however, is Moses’ reaction. Then there were the two hundred opens its mouth and swallows them and all and fifty “leaders of the community, chosen they have, and they go down alive to Sheol, from the assembly, men of repute” who felt then you will know that these men have aggrieved (according to Ibn Ezra) that after the provoked the Lord.” sin of the Golden Calf, leadership had passed from the firstborn to a single tribe, the Levites. What a contrast this is to the frustrated ambition and petty jealousy - what generosity of spirit he showed just a few the Sages called “an argument not for the sake chapters earlier, when Joshua came to tell him of heaven.” Power versus Influence 1 Korach fi fl that Eldad and Medad were prophesying in the “Where there are two passages which camp, away from Moses and the seventy contradict each other, the meaning can be elders. Joshua regarded this as a potentially determined only when a third passage is dangerous threat to Moses’ leadership and found which harmonises them.” said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!” Moses’ reply is one of the most majestic in the whole In this case, the answer is to be found later in of Tanach: the book of Bamidbar, when Moses asks God to choose the next leader of the Israelites. Give over to him some of your difference between Moses saying, “Would that majesty, so that the entire Israelite all the Lord’s people were prophets,” and community will obey him.” Korach’s claim that “All the community is holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their Num. The Sages, in Midrash Rabbah, methodological observations, said that “the added a commentary which at first sight only words of the Torah may be poor in one place deepens the mystery: but rich in another.” By this they meant that, if we seek to understand a perplexing passage, “Lay your hand on him” - this is like lighting we may need to look elsewhere i

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Covenant & Conversation

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19 июня 2026 г.

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5

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary