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of Korah comes with his questions. 50 of the leadership in the Jewish people and Korah comes and he says the words, look inside the parashah. Pasuk base, viyakumu lifnei Moshe, and they all stood up in front of Moshe. Va'anashim, they were men. Men means men of stature. They're big people. Mibnei Yisrael, from the nation of Israel. Chamishim umosaim 50 and 200, 250 nasi aidah. These are the leaders, these are the nasim, the nasiim. Kri'ei mo'ed anshei shem, men of name. Vayikahalu al Moshe and they all gathered together on Moshe. Like it looks like ganging up on Moshe v'al Aharon. Vayomru aleihem and this is what they actually say. Rav lachem rav lachem. So look at Rashi, rav lachem. What does rav lachem mean? >> Uh you had enough. It's enough for you. >> Says Rashi, harbei yoseir midai l'kachtem l'atzmechem gedulah. You took more than you should have. >> What what is it? >> Not that it's enough, not rav lachem, the rav, you took more. You took more. As if to say that Moshe did this himself. He's being accused, you took more. So we explained yesterday, what did he want? He wanted to be the nasi. It seemed that he wanted to be the Cohen Gadol. >> Why? So, we'll get there. We'll get That's going to be tomorrow night. We'll go into the Cohen Gadol. And he says like this, "Kulam Kedoshim. Moshe, we're all holy. We're all holy. We should all be special." Now, what's interesting, what does it mean we're all holy? We all heard Hashem say Anochi Hashem Elokecha, and we all became the Mamleches Kohanim,
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- 2:36the Kodesh, which means why can't I be the Cohen Gadol? If we all are Mamleches…
- 5:34ripping limbs off live animals and just controlling and manipulating. We're talking about David and Melech…
- 8:13The entire Jewish nation all heard this. And we all heard that God called us the…
- 10:55Shek far zeh be yom sirchoin rev This is already sirchon means a a horrible blemish.…
- 13:32Poor waiter. Now, what what do you This guy, second day on the job, he's getting…
- 16:14when it came to the the discussion with Korach, Nisrachlu Yado, Masha got weak. He didn't…
- 18:53down the father. So, there's one thing for the person to come one time, to come…
- 21:28Moses [clears throat] believes in Jews like crazy. Unbelievable. And Moshe, the greatest prophet of all…
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