Jun 19, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
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So, Moshe tells the leader of each tribe to leave a dry, wooden staff in the Mishkan overnight.
The next morning, everyone walks in and sees a crazy miracle.
Our own stick didn't just grow leaves, it actually sprouted beautiful blossoms and grew ripe almonds overnight.
This has obviously stopped all the arguments.
But if you think about it, why did Hashem choose this specific miracle? If He wanted to show off His power and prove a point, He could have turned the stick into gold or made it shoot fire.
Why almonds? Rav Leib Haasman and Rav Ephraim Wachsman explained a really deep lesson from this.
Think about what happens every spring.
A brown, dead-looking tree suddenly wakes up, grows leaves, puts out flowers, and produces fruit.
It's beautiful, but nobody stops and screams, wow, a miracle.
Why? Because we see it happen every single year.
We get used to it, so we call it nature and move on.
By making a dry piece of wood grow almonds overnight, Hashem was opening everyone's eyes.
He was saying the same power it takes to make a dead stick grow fruit in one second is the same exact same power I use to make regular trees grow fruit every single year.
Korach and his followers were looking for big, dramatic signs and political power plays.
But true spirituality is about looking at the regular world around us and realizing that nothing is actually regular.
Nowadays, we don't appreciate the simple things.
We are waiting for something big to happen when really the miracle is right in front of you.
You just have to open your eyes.
The fact that we wake up, eat food, and have arms to put filling on, those are all big miracles.
So the story of Aron's staff teaches us a great lesson.
We don't need huge, crazy miracles to see Hashem in our lives, and we definitely don't need to fight over honor or try to be better than everyone else like Korach did.
All we have to do is open our eyes and look around at our normal, everyday lives and realize how much good Hashem does for us all the time.
Because there are always miracles happening to us, we just have to see them and be appreciative.
So, Moshe tells the leader of each tribe to leave a dry, wooden staff in the Mishkan overnight.
The next morning, everyone walks in and sees a crazy miracle.
Our own stick didn't just grow leaves, it actually sprouted beautiful blossoms and grew ripe almonds overnight.
This has obviously stopped all the arguments.
But if you think about it, why did Hashem choose this specific miracle? If He wanted to show off His power and prove a point, He could have turned the stick into gold or made it shoot fire.
Why almonds? Rav Leib Haasman and Rav Ephraim Wachsman explained a really deep lesson from this.
Think about what happens every spring.
A brown, dead-looking tree suddenly wakes up, grows leaves, puts out flowers, and produces fruit.
It's beautiful, but nobody stops and screams, wow, a miracle.
Why? Because we see it happen every single year.
We get used to it, so we call it nature and move on.
By making a dry piece of wood grow almonds overnight, Hashem was opening everyone's eyes.
He was saying the same power it takes to make a dead stick grow fruit in one second is the same exact same power I use to make regular trees grow fruit every single year.
Korach and his followers were looking for big, dramatic signs and political power plays.
But true spirituality is about looking at the regular world around us and realizing that nothing is actually regular.
Nowadays, we don't appreciate the simple things.
We are waiting for something big to happen when really the miracle is right in front of you.
You just have to open your eyes.
The fact that we wake up, eat food, and have arms to put filling on, those are all big miracles.
So the story of Aron's staff teaches us a great lesson.
We don't need huge, crazy miracles to see Hashem in our lives, and we definitely don't need to fight over honor or try to be better than everyone else like Korach did.
All we have to do is open our eyes and look around at our normal, everyday lives and realize how much good Hashem does for us all the time.
Because there are always miracles happening to us, we just have to see them and be appreciative.
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