Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Korach (Video 235)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Uh, this week unfortunately our family had a tragedy. My mother-in-law, Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, passed away at age 99. And if she would have passed away at 150, we would have cried the same way because when anyone so valuable to the world in her character, her middos, her giving, her mitzvos middos, her giving, her mitzvos was so unbelievable. This is a woman that said, "Hold till them twice." Every day. And in my all the years I'm in the family, I married her second daughter, baruch Hashem. And we never heard her speak one word loshon hora in all the years, almost 60 years uh, that I'm here in the family. So, I want to dedicate So, I want to dedicate tonight's shiur leilui nishmas Rivka bas Harav Uzziel. Um, her father was a shochet in Russia. And he shechted for the Chassidishe Rebbeim, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, also. Um, and in those days if you shechted and you were caught, you were taken immediately out to the backyard and shot. There was no discussions and no trials and no defenses and no lawyers. trials and no defenses and no lawyers. They just took action against you. So, she grew up in that type of an atmosphere of mesirus nefesh. And we know that she is going to help bring Mashiach and fight lemala with her schussim and her beautiful personality, worrying only about other Yidden, um that she will add to the voices and the chorus

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1. 0:00Uh, this week unfortunately our family had a tragedy. My mother-in-law, Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, passed away…
2. 4:13on the first Shabbos of creation, there was a there was the ability to be able…
3. 8:25troublemakers par excellence in every issue that the Yidden had lost and had a mageifah and…
4. 12:36caboodle with Korach, On ben Peleth. And the story the Gemara says is that his wife…
5. 16:44though she saved his life, and he continued living, he was a different person, changed. And…
6. 21:28supersede anything that a person wants in this world. That the person davens for something else,…
7. 25:41for self-aggrandizement or anything that we would benefit from and that's why he explained the level…
8. 29:55himself away from the tzibbur, from the multitudes, and made himself as if each and every…
9. 33:59but Aaron was the cementing factor and the backbone of promoting peace and tranquility amongst the…
10. 38:11And that solved the problem. Seeing 250 people slip into the ground, that didn't do it.…

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