Korach Gems 5783

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

is to teach us to avoid one of the greatest dangers to our lives. When I say lives, I'm talking about life in this world and life in the next world. The only way that a person can succeed at avoiding the quicksand of machlokes, and I really feel that quicksand is a very good uh, analogy. I'll talk more about that maybe later. The avoid the quicksand of machlokes is forewarned is forearmed. Uh, as I've said many times, Rashi himself tells us that Korach was a pikayach. He was an extremely intelligent person. And he was a great man. All the Leviim chose him to be one of the people that carried the Aron, the most coveted job of all of the Leviim. And if Korach could fall into such a mess, then what chance do average people like me and you have? And the answer is we have parshas Korach. And therefore, the discipline, the foresight that uh, we gain from studying parshas Korach year after year carefully is the hope that we and our families should be spared from the ruination of fighting, of feuds, of being embroiled in arguments. So, it says by Yitzhak Kahana, Korah took something. What did he take? We know he came with a uh claim against Moshe, against Aaron. But, what did he take? So, Amoraic Shlokaish, Shlokaish Mekach Ra La'atzmo. He took bad merchandise for himself. So, first of all, what was the bad merchandise? And what does it mean La'atzmo? Obviously, if he bought a Mekach Ra, he didn't buy it for someone else, he Korah It says that Korah was very smart. So, Mar Ra'al Sh'tusa, what caused him to get involved in this Sh'tusa? Eino Hit'asa, he was fooled by his eye. What happened? Ra'ah Shmuel Yotzei Mimenu, he saw B'nevu'ah that Shmuel will descend from him. Sheshakul K'Moshe V'Aharon, who is equal

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