Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz: Korach and Company - Forerunners to the Karites

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

[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Um, okay. Um, well, thank you for coming again. And uh, as always, praying for again. And uh, as always, praying for the protection of Am Yisrael, for the last of unity of the people of Israel, which will lead to victory, and for all of those whose health has been affected by terror. Uh, refuah shleima Leah Shoshana bas Yisrael asura and Rav Dov ben Shoshana. And um, there's no particular uh, aliyah neshama this week, but uh, all the neshamot that need aliyah uh, should be elevated by uh, the divrei Torah that we're doing and that everyone else is doing as well. as well. Uh, we did have uh, a little bit of an unpleasant experience uh, two days ago in the morning, like 5:30 in the morning, when the alarm went off. And uh, we had thoughts that perhaps this, you know, we were finished with this. But Hakadosh Baruchu apparently decided that we still need some literal wake-up calls. And these were quite literally uh, wake-up calls for most most people. Uh, through In other words, in a way, Hashem is kind of reminding you, "Don't think you don't need me anymore."

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1. 0:02[music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Um, okay. Um, well, thank you for coming…
2. 5:39seems to represent a type of philosophy that might be called radical egalitarianism. Uh it might…
3. 11:16in which he was looking for power. And indeed, uh if you study the history of…
4. 16:55Rav Soloveitchik calls the common-sense rebellion of Korach, Huey Long's declaration, every man should be a…
5. 23:04So, when other people were victimized, did you feel the same sense of outrage? If you…
6. 28:48amar Kohelet, havel havalim, hakol Now, the famous King James translation of Havel Havelim is vanity…
7. 34:27lessons in life from the differing accounts. Meaning, there are certain lessons I learn from the…
8. 40:41took on the role of Adam 1 and Hevel took on the role of Adam 2.…
9. 46:21Korach had all of the talents of Moshe Rabbeinu. The wisdom, the leadership, the charisma, the…
10. 52:01being honored. And the Netziv makes an interesting point. He says, "The motivation of the was…

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