When is jealousy good for you? - Parashat Korach - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in parashat i said it yes last week i'll say it again this week one of my most favorite parashots and not because of the act rather because of the message if you read the parashat the torah portion for the act or the facts that's one thing but if you read the torah in order to derive some lesson and some tools how to act in this world then you then you hit the jackpot so when the parasha has a very profound message then that needs to be taken in the right measure so there's no way much to elaborate and to add you all know the story of korach that it boiled down to that he was jealous of moshe that's what it boiled down to no need to give too much background about uh moshe's cousin he he didn't like the fact that moshe is the leader you know sometimes when people grow together it can be in the family and it can be also friends and classmates and sometimes you i mean we're all both hashem lived a long life so far hashem should bless us all to continue having a long life but sometimes you look back and oh yeah he was with high school in me and you know a few years ago i had a uh not a reunion but my class had like a kind of a reunion they gathered all the people from my class i was i lived in the states at the time i didn't i couldn't come but they made a facebook group a whatsapp group and everybody was posting pictures and it was funny to look at all the

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