Are You the Kohen Gadol? (Parshas Korach)

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

a guy is sitting in a job interview and the interviewer says to the candidate for this job we need somebody very responsible the candidate says oh well you got the right guy because of my old job everything that went wrong they all decided i was responsible okay so we're gonna talk about who is responsible you know like uh harry s truman had a sign on his desk during world war ii that said the buck stops here okay so let's talk about who is responsible who is the leader who's the one who uh ultimately takes accountability this week is parshas kyra and uh as we all know the you know coyote is the name of a person he was maisha's uh cousin and he led a rebellion to usurp the high priesthood the high priesthood was occupied by arunachalene the brother of maisha which was uh by divine appointment rabble-roused he got a bunch of people excited actually they weren't rabble they were the opposite they were uh intellectual elites they were heads of uh of rabbinic courts at any rate he well he also rabble rouse because dustin of dustin and avirum were definitely rabble but he got everybody he fomented a whole uh rebellion and he got everybody all excited and they confronted maesha um and they started uh questioning the whole system of high priesthood and uh in short their claim was they wanted to democratize the office they wanted to make it belong to everybody or at least it's hard to understand what they actually imagined would be the outcome uh meisha basically told him it's an

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