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KORACH'S BAD HAIR DAY

2.6K views · Jun 15, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

A humorous and insightful look at Korach's story and its lessons.

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Recording in progress. >> Okay. Good afternoon everyone. It's your favorite time of the week. And don't think I'm just imposing that on you. Even he he agreed. Even though even though I paid him to agree, but still he agreed. No. Welcome everyone. Monday afternoon national. We have amazing material today on paras. Firstly, make sure you have the safer uh the third edition is already in America. It's uh beautiful safer and you could take advantage of the maida of hubman who said he decided to davin for all those who learn his safer and say over his tyra to others. It's now being worked on in English for arts school if anybody wants to participate. Now last year of upcoming volumes including of please let us know. Today we're going to talk about a difficult time for Kak. Please take a look at the screen. We know the opening p of this week's para and there is a name which is conspicuously absent. We're giving the whole brievil of Karak. He's a son of Yeetsar. He's a grandson of Kahas. He's the great grandson of Ley. What happened? Well, just take it back just a bit further. What happened to Yakov? Why don't we say Ben Levy? Rashi says we don't mention Jacob's name because Jacob was raim that his name should not be mentioned in association of the of like it says so Jacob Hashem leave me out of this I don't want to have anything to do with when the story is recorded and his is given and he's saying he's the son of Year the grandson of Kah the great grandson of ley knew don't say so

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  1. 0:01Recording in progress. >> Okay. Good afternoon everyone. It's your favorite time of the week. And…
  2. 4:40comes the holyam and he says I can't believe it I can't understand how the benet…
  3. 8:32uh uh common sense you want to avoid such a name? Why did they give the…
  4. 12:43Mosha shaved you like uh like the bald eagle. Anyway, what is this referring to? What…
  5. 16:21beard down to the floor. And you have other people, they're 50 years old and they're…
  6. 20:27and especially a bal tshoua by the way comes [snorts] barbanel and he says something amazing…
  7. 24:04challenge of poverty. actually in uh the safe pishua which we were plugging before and in…
  8. 27:39kip of an onion, it's basically worthless. You rip it off. All the rabbis to me…
  9. 31:50He says, "Please give me bread to eat and clothing to wear." Question. Why does Jacob…
  10. 35:31in Gashio, he did without. And he channeled the concept of sear. He raika channeled the…

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