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Covenant & Conversation — Korach 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Korach 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. congregation, men of renown.” Either they felt But if the Lord brings about something that they had earned the right to be leaders on totally new, and the earth opens its mouth Taking it Personally 1 Korach fi ff fi fi ff fi ff ff ff fi fl fi fi and swallows them, with everything that leadership . When you take personal belongs to them, and they go down alive attacks personally, you unwittingly into the realm of the dead, then you will conspire in one of the common ways you know that these men have treated the Lord can be taken out of action – you make with contempt.” yourself the issue. In the end what Though it may seem otherwise, the anger you face stilled the rebellion was the sight of Aaron’s rod, a has nothing to do with you as a person and piece of dry wood, coming to life again, bearing everything to do with what you stand for and owers and fruit. has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: If these men die a Third were the 250 others, described by the Torah natural death and su er the fate of all as “Princes of the Assembly, famous in the humankind, then the Lord has not sent me. almost forty years later, he says to the people who complain about the lack of drink, “Listen, you The Harvard leadership expert, Ronald Heifetz, rebels, must we bring you water out of this makes the point that it is essential for a leader to rock?” (Num. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Taking it Personally When we read the story of Korach, our attention meritocratic grounds, or – Ibn Ezra's suggestion tends to be focused on the rebels. Not until a quite over us!” These were deeply personal attacks, but di erent demonstration takes place – when by taking them as such, Moses allowed his Moses takes twelve rods representing the twelve opponents to de ne the terms of engagement. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Moses’ It is hard not to see this as the rst sign of the intervention, challenging God to make the earth failing that would eventually cost Moses his swallow his opponents, was a tragic mistake. about is almost always a part of exercising Taking it Personally 2

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Covenant & Conversation

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4 июля 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary