Korach

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Korach: When Silence is Not Golden

Rabbi Jay Kelman

It is most difficult to solve a problem if the protagonists will not meet with each other and hear each other out. While there is no guarantee that talking will solve an issue, there is a guarantee that silence will perpetuate the problem. Moshe…

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Jun 26, 2020

Korach: No Unity Without Diversity

Rabbi Jay Kelman

It is in times of crisis that effective leadership is most important—and the years spent wandering in the desert represented the first major crisis of the Jewish people. Aimlessly wandering with little to look forward to, knowing that they…

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Jul 5, 2019

Korach: Holy and More Holy

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The Torah was "edited" with great precision. Narrative and law are often intertwined; one sheds light on the other. While our tradition teaches that the entire corpus of Biblical Law was given at Sinai, many, if not most, of the laws are…

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Jun 15, 2018

Korach: Choose Wisely

Rabbi Jay Kelman

This week's d'var Torah is dedicated in honour of my father Rabbi Joseph Kelman z"l whose yahrzeit is this week. May his memory be for a blessing. --JHK It often takes a crisis to bring people together. The greater the…

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Jun 19, 2015

Korach: Some Are More Holy Than Others

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The survival of the Jewish people in the desert was a direct result and only possible because of Divine intervention: the splitting of the sea; water from a rock; living on manna from heaven; clothes that did not wear out; and snakes and scorpions…

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Jun 7, 2013

Korach: Honour the Enemy

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The name Korach is synonymous with Machloket shelo leshem shamoyim, arguments that are not for the sake of heaven. As we read how Korach and his rebel rousers were killed by G-d, exactly as Moshe had predicted, no doubt many feel gleeful as those "…

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Jun 23, 2006