Korach: What Is the Name of this Week's Parsha? The Astounding Practice of Rav Chaim Filag'i

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

before some Iranian kidnapper got them. So, people said you went to Turkey, are you happy you went to Turkey? And I always say once I got back safe, I was very happy I went to Turkey. Um, but it was actually quite an amazing experience to be in the city of Izmir. Actually, I don't know if I ever said it here on the shear, uh, when we were in the cemetery in Izmir, we saw another Kever sort of off to the side that said Palagi on it. And we, um, we uncovered it and it was the son of Rav Chaim Palagi. And uh, the next week the shear that we gave were Chidusim from the son of Rav Chaim Palagi that we never quoted before. And almost like supernaturally, we uncovered his grave and then Hashem uncovered his Chidusim for us. So, I want to share with you a very interesting practice of Rav Chaim Palagi for Parshas Korach. In the Sefer Or Moshe, quoted in the Sefer Otzar Pela'os HaTorah, the Sefer Or Moshe is from HaGaon Rav Yaakov Chaim Sofer, who is the the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Kaf HaChaim and Mechaber of many Sefarim. Um, he writes a wondrous thing. He says, "If you study the Sefarim of Chaim Palagi, you'll notice that whenever he quotes Parshas Korach, he does not refer to it as Korah. He calls it by a different name. He calls it Ben Levi. So, for example,

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1. 0:31before some Iranian kidnapper got them. So, people said you went to Turkey, are you happy…
2. 1:01And we, um, we uncovered it and it was the son of Rav Chaim Palagi. And…
3. 1:32HaTorah, the Sefer Or Moshe is from HaGaon Rav Yaakov Chaim Sofer, who is the the…
4. 2:35Says Rav Yakov Haim Sofer, Barur Atsli, is because we do not quote the name of…
5. 3:06pasuk, Mishpachas HaKarchi, you remember that pasuk? Perek Chaf Vav, pasuk Nun Ches. Who remembers that…
6. 4:08Ah, cuz they did teshuvah. And because they did teshuvah, all the descendants of Yitzhar are…
7. 4:38understand what the Ramban is talking about. You're going to call the whole family of Yitzhar…
8. 5:08Tur says, "No, you can't call it Hakarchi because of the Benei Korach." But, most of…
9. 6:10They asked uh Rav Chaim Kanievsky, it's quoted in the Derech Sichah, and he says he…
10. 6:40if it's named after somebody or if it's in lashon hakodesh, it's certainly is yesodasei deharei…

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