Likkutei Sichot, Vol. 4: קרח

Introduction Leadership is a crucial issue throughout society today. In all walks of life – be it business, politics, or social relations – we are looking for leaders, people of vision who can motivate others to focus their energies on a goal and work to ...

The notorious uprising led by Korach against the leadership of Moses and Aaron begs the question of what motivated such an illustrious spiritual individual to fall so low? Based on Likkutei Sichos vol. 4 Korach.

Why did Korach make his argument only after the incident with the spies? Because through that incident, we learned something: That living a spiritual life in the desert is nice, but only when the goal is to bring it down to action on the ground. If so, Ko...

All of the community, every one of them is holy. G‑d is within them. So why do you elevate yourselves above the assembly of G‑d? (Numbers 16:3) Korach was right. He had a real truth, and a real question. Just that he wasn’t interested in hearing the answe...

Korach is a figure I can highly identify with. From primary grades on, I never got along too well with authority.

Korach had a strong point to make: If we are all G-d’s people, what makes some more G-dly than others?

A Chronological Perspective Our SagesSeder Olam Rabbah, ch. 8; cited by the Rashbam and Tosafos, Bava Basra 119a. relate that Korach’s abortive uprising against Moshe and Aharon took place after the spies returned with their negative report. This is refle...

The Torah portion of Korach relates how Korach and a band of 250 men rebelled against Moshe and Aharon. This revolt took place after the incident of the MeraglimSeder Olam Rabbah, ch. 8; quoted in Rashbam and Tosafos B. Basra 119a. sent by Moshe to spy ou...