Korach

July 20, 2021

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy — A Map of Spring and Summer 2021

I've been wanting to get this down for weeks…. I’ve been very affected since March by Torah time – by how the cycle of reading the Torah in synagogue has mapped onto our experience of the pandemic since its one-year anniversary. The first anniversary of the formal declaration of the pandemic and the massive shut-downs… Continue reading

B’haalotcha, B’midbar, Behar, Calendar, Coronavirus, Current Affairs, Elul, High Holidays, Holidays, Ki Tetze, Ki Tissa, Korach, Leadership, Mas’ei, Mattot, Metzora, Naso, Numbers, Parashat Hashavua, Patience, Pekudei, Pinchas, Re’eh, Rosh Hashanah, Shmini, Shoftim, Study, Tisha B’Av, Torah, USA, Vayakhel, Vayikra, Yamim Noraim
July 11, 2016

Remembering Elie Wiesel As a Lens For the Week That Was

These are the words I shared this past Shabbat morning. Another version, with appropriate links and notes and credit for things I read and heard, is here. Last Shabbat, the Jewish people and the world lost one of our generation's most important voices of conscience, Elie Wiesel.* As the week began, I thought that this… Continue reading

Community Relations, Current Affairs, Holocaust, Islam, Justice, Korach, Tikkun Olam, USA
June 20, 2014

E-Maggid: How to Argue

Any dispute for the sake of Heaven has enduring value, and any dispute that is not for the Sake of Heaven has no enduring value. What is an example of a dispute for the sake of Heaven? The ongoing dispute between the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai. What is an example of a… Continue reading

E-Maggid, Ethics, Korach, Middot, Parashat Hashavua
June 10, 2010

Parashat Korach: The Wrong Way to Challenge

(Last year's e-drash on Korach was pretty good, too.) It's hard to argue with Korach's challenge to Moshe. Moshe seems like the unelected leader-for-life, and Korach makes the case that all the people are holy. Moshe is theocracy, Korach is for not quite democracy, but a wider shared leadership. This is hard to rebut. Just… Continue reading

Korach, Leadership, Parashat Hashavua
June 26, 2009

Parashat Korach — Docent, Cheerleader, Coach…Rabbi

Parashat Korach opens with a challenge to Moshe and Aharon, led by a Levite named Korach. "You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the Lord is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above the congregation of Adonai?" On the face of it, the argument… Continue reading

Korach, Parashat Hashavua, Rabbi, Teacher-Student Relationship, Temple Beth Abraham, Torah

Korach

Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy — A Map of Spring and Summer 2021

Remembering Elie Wiesel As a Lens For the Week That Was

E-Maggid: How to Argue

Parashat Korach: The Wrong Way to Challenge

Parashat Korach — Docent, Cheerleader, Coach…Rabbi