Korach
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Sep 12, 2026
Shalom RosnerHOST
But this means hamuvchar.
Shalom RosnerHOST
"Komosha kasah," like it says in Parashat Korach, "Kol chelev yitzar." So sometimes Reishis means give the best, give the muvchar, as we'll see in, um, in Hilchot Zeraim Mizbe'ach in a minute, Avodah and Korbanot.
Shalom RosnerHOST
"Avel ein mashma'o hanikzar o hanidos rishon." But it doesn't mean what's, uh, harvested first or crushed first.
Shalom RosnerHOST
"Ela kvar nidos venasa kalat v'ad dagan, v'utaraim hamuvchar mehem." Right? It's already processed when it comes to Terumah.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Lemashcha.
Shalom RosnerHOST
That's the pasuk that's quoted in Parshas Korach.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Rashi quotes the pasuk here.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Nasatim lemashcha.
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Shalom RosnerHOST
[Hebrew] There was a Brisa that misled him.
Shalom RosnerHOST
That's why he said that she-- that, that [Hebrew].
Shalom RosnerHOST
[Hebrew] 'cause the Brisa says, [Hebrew] there are twenty-four [Hebrew] that are listed in Korach.
Shalom RosnerHOST
[Hebrew] and they were all given to Aaron and his sons.
Moshe TaraginHOST
But the beauty of halacha is that it takes moral concepts and then embeds them and institutionalizes them into laws, into strict, applicable, standardized realities.
Moshe TaraginHOST
That was basically Korach's
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trick.
Moshe TaraginHOST
Korach came and one of the stories that he told, going to Medrash, he told the story of a widow, who just wanted to plant her field, and Aaron came and took Trumas and Maestros, and Moshe came and took Peah, and then she said, you know what, I can't take these people, they're taking all my money away, so then she just said, I'm going to sell my field and buy in animals, and Aaron came and took Rosh Hashanah, and said, oh, I can't take anymore, I'm just going to shut these people, they're so exploitative, they're taking all my money away, then Aaron came and took Azor L'chaim Bekeva, and he was basically trying to mock Moshe Rabbeinu.
Moshe TaraginHOST
You see, the entire Lachik system is meant to torture people, widows.
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No.
Moshe TaraginHOST
We'd give her money, we'd give her charity, whatever.
Moshe TaraginHOST
We'd find a way to support her.
David KadoshHOST
It is almost always the wounded pride of someone who needed to be seen and wasn't.
David KadoshHOST
The Al-Shikh HaKadoshah of Moshe Al-Shikh, the great 16th century commentator, makes an observation about Korach's rebellion that I think is the most penetrating analysis of Rodef Kavod in all of Torah literature.
David KadoshHOST
He says, Korach was not wrong that he was talented.
David KadoshHOST
He was not wrong that he was learned.
David KadoshHOST
He was not even wrong that he was deserving of a significant role.
David KadoshHOST
His sin was not self-delusion.
David KadoshHOST
His sin was that he could not tolerate the existence of someone else's honor alongside his own.
David KadoshHOST
Moshe's leadership did not diminish Korach's genuine greatness, but it felt like it did.
Isaac J. KassinHOST
Even when people attacked him, he wanted peace.
Isaac J. KassinHOST
Korach, Datan, Aviram.
Isaac J. KassinHOST
He wanted to avoid, what's the word? Machloket.
Isaac J. KassinHOST
Moshe Rabbeinu.
David BassousHOST
Moshe Rabbeinu is the most humble person, can you imagine? But he's the leader of the Kalad Yisrael.
David BassousHOST
He prays to God to swallow Korach up.
David BassousHOST
How can a humble person do that? See, he's not doing it for himself.
David BassousHOST
he's doing it for G-d's sake because G-d's Torah is being uprooted Korach claims that I'm not the vehicle to give Torah if I'm not the vehicle to give Torah then the whole Torah is uprooted and therefore Hashem should create a method to show the people that I am the vehicle of Torah otherwise there's not going to be a Torah so if he's doing it for himself that's pride if he's doing it for G-d's sake that's humility so what are you doing this for? are you doing Lashem Shamayim or are you doing look at the debates between Shamayim and Hillel They won't argue because of the pride.
David BassousHOST
Some people argue because of the pride.
David BassousHOST
I'm wrong.
Laivi ShorGUEST
And these are they.
Laivi ShorGUEST
The mouth of the earth that swallowed Korach and his followers, the mouth of the well that was the bare Miriam, the miraculous well that gave off the water, the stone that gave off the water in the desert.
Laivi ShorGUEST
the mouth of the donkey that spoke to Balaam, the rainbow, which was the covenant after the flood, the manna, the man, the holy bread from heaven.
Laivi ShorGUEST
these things were all created before the first shabbos so after this the sixth day of creation is coming to an end and these things were created the staff of moshe and that's that's a video on its own if you want to do a fun video because that's gonna i think that's the inspiration for the king author and the sword of the stone that only moshe could pull the staff out that's the staff of mashiach that's going to be the scepter of mashiach so for our mashiach fans that'll be a fun video for them the shamir worm which we talked about which King Solomon got from Ashmadai, where it was, and that helped build the temple.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
There's another episode.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
This is many times where this idea is hinted in the Torah, but also very powerfully in the book of in the story of Korach.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
Korach mounts a rebellion against Moshe.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And when the Torah outlines who are his co-conspirators, Rashi does an amazing job of telling us, of contrasting or utilizing information from the rest of the Torah to find out that these people were actually neighbors.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
Because the Torah, the beginning of the book of Numbers, tells us where every tribe was camped.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And if you look at where all the tribes were camped and all the people that were part of the conspiracy against Moshe, they were all neighbors.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And Rashi tells us, like, why does it mention all these people and where they're from? Because the Shevet of Ruvain, the tribe of Ruvain, was right next to the part of Levi that was Kahas, that was where Korach is from.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And therefore, which means woe unto the wicked one and woe unto his neighbor.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
He said, "No, Moshe Rabbeinu told Bnei Yisrael the whole Torah." I said, "What do you mean? Half of the Torah occurs after Matan Torah.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
Korach, Meraglim.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
So you're telling me he comes down from Har Sinai, and he tells them about Korach and about Meraglim?" He says, "Yeah." So I said, "So what's going on? Are they play acting? Korach is just reading a script.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
'Hey, Korach, you stand here,' and there's gonna be this great visual.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
The ground's gonna open up.
Yitzchak BreitowitzHOST
That makes no sense." So he says something like, "He told to them, but they didn't understand what it meant." I said, "What is, what is there not to understand? It says the ground opens up, and you get swallowed." So okay, okay.
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