The Big Gulp - Parashat Korach - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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Page eight. 820. So, what do you call it? Uh somebody asked me eight What happened to Korach? And I I I I didn't even get to this point. You know, you're you're you're you're know you've seen what Moshe Rabbeinu is. And and the answer the in the the law the short answer the short answer There's a long answer and a short answer. The short answer is that a person who is consumed by jealousy loses all sense of reason. The A person who's consumed by jealousy is a is is a um there's something inherently uh for lack of a better word, unfair about it, unreasonable about it. Because if if you're jealous of somebody Because if if you're jealous of somebody so Brocha atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam shehakol nibra. I left the building. >> I know that. >> The uh If if somebody is if somebody is jealous of somebody they'll so Michael Jordan once said Well, he's one of the great philosophers of the 21st century. And Michael Jordan once said that you know, people say, "I wonder I'd like to be Michael Jordan for a day." And Michael Jordan himself said, "But you're not Michael Jordan for a day.

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1. 0:00Page eight. 820. So, what do you call it? Uh somebody asked me eight What happened…
2. 4:09Lano. Right now is the time of drinking. In the evening. Probably had what to eat.…
3. 8:47I can't take the what do you call it. Okay. So, the uh um the the…
4. 13:26encroaching on Hashem. How does he translate it? No, they molest gathered assembled against Hashem. The…
5. 18:04And then finally, 40, 50 years later, one of them got sick. So, they went to…
6. 22:39So Moshe Rabbeinu Moshe Rabbeinu especially works with you when you see the train coming. The…
7. 27:11terrific. It doesn't define you as a person. Who you are as a person are is…
8. 31:50Bava Metzia end of Maseches and Maseches that's talking about the fight between Rabbi Eliezer and…
9. 36:29All right? Don't you do that sometimes with a straw when you're eating something like right…
10. 41:01exist, I'll show you what it is that don't exist." You're swallowed up. There's no existence…

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