Parshat Korach with Reb Meir Elkabas - Exchanging Strife for Joy

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Shalom everybody and welcome back to Insights into the parsha of the week, Parshat Korach in the diaspora. Exciting parsha every year, every year. And uh of course we're going to try to go into some details of Korach. But especially we want to go into the gifts, the Matanot Kehuna mentioned right after the whole story of Korach and Hashem showing clearly that Aaron is the chosen Kohain. So let's just first take a look. Korach was jealous Korach was jealous of of Mos- of Moshe and Aaron, but especially Aaron. Why? Because uh the chief of the tribe of Kehat wasn't Korach, was another family relative. And Korach argued, "I'm the one next in line. Why did you pick someone from the youngest of the brothers to be in charge of Kehat? So therefore, I'm holek. I want to go against." But he didn't argue for his position. Which on a p'shat level makes sense, you Which on a p'shat level makes sense, you know, you're showing that you're doing it for your own honor. He argued against Aaron being Kohain. Why should Aaron be Kohain? In other words, instead of Korach arguing, "Why should the the the leader of the tribe of Kehat for the Levi'im be this cousin of mine?" Instead of doing that, he went a level up towards Aaron. Okay? The Zohar says that what he was doing really was la'achlafa yamina bismala. That's the term of the Zohar. He wanted to switch, an exchange left with right. We

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2. 1:34switch, an exchange left with right. We have to explain this idea. In the Kabbalah, the…
3. 3:35won't say that, but they have a There is a big play in simcha in the…
4. 5:07chula is you have the billion plus the the one that you feel you're missing, you…
5. 7:10placed it that that Moshe placed the staff representing Aaron and it and it sprouted to…
6. 8:41and so happy that his younger brother is the redeemer to take the Jews out. Then…
7. 10:45V'hu va acharei ad al hasadeh and it came along someone said, "What? This field doesn't…
8. 12:17given to me in my life. I appreciate it and I'm functioning based on that simcha.…
9. 14:20she made him feel bad. In fact, the Midrash says that she was an example of…
10. 15:52For to show demonstrate this scenario, there had to be the Korach incident, unfortunately. The Korach…

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