Ari Goldwag - Korach - Organic Leadership

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

You're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with Ari Goldwag, recorded with Hashem's never-ending assistance in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel, 5777, 2017. This week's parsha is parshas Korach. I'd like to remind you once again about my safer, Perfectly Imperfect, breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness, available wherever good Jewish books are sold. I also want to mention two other very important things. One is that in two weeks from now, on parshas Balak, it will be 10 years that I will be celebrating having put people against Moshe Rabbeinu, against Moses, against Aaron HaKohen, the high priesthood, was called into question by Korach. And I'd like to share with you a thought which which is really all-encompassing of the parsha. I'd like to look at the parsha generally, and also this week at the haftarah, because there's an interesting insight that we can see from the parallel. Whenever we have a haftarah, which is an added section that we read from the Nevi'im, from the prophets, so, there's always something that parallels what's going on in our parsha. It's a special reading that we do, and I'd like to share with you a thought that relates to how we can understand our parsha in light of the haftarah. But, let's look for a moment at the parsha our parsha itself, and we see that Korach, he comes to challenge the authenticity of Moshe Rabbeinu's nevu'ah, of his prophecy, and of his appointment of Aaron HaKohen, Aaron, as a high priest. And he says, "Why should should be any kind of classes? Why should there be different parts of classes? Why should there be people who have more power or

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4. 6:07showing and proving to the Jewish people that there are there are individuals, in this case…
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7. 12:15So, what was the problem? What was the mistake that the Jewish people made such that…
8. 14:18All the Jewish people should have the power.' Instead of acknowledging and recognizing that the way…
9. 16:22person becomes accepted by the Jewish people people because of his greatness. We accept the leadership…
10. 18:25hierarchy, that the the priest, the Kohen is higher than him. That he has a greater…

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