When what you have is not enough: Parshat Korah

Date

2023-06-19

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Publisher

The Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership

Abstract

In Tanakh, we also have a “you’re-not-the-boss-of- me” moment. It occurs in the beginning of this week’s Torah reading, Korah. Korah, a Levite, gathered together a number of elders and 250 leaders to challenge Moses and Aaron’s leadership. It was a dramatic, high-stakes rebellion with a very painful and shocking denouement. They accused the brothers of aggregating too much power and not sufficiently democratizing the governance of the Israelites: “They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far (rav lakhem)! For all the community are holy, all of them, and God is in their midst. Why then do you raise yourselves above God’s congregation?” (Num. 16:3).

Description

The weekly Bible portion

Keywords

Korah, Moses (Biblical character), Aaron (Bible character)

Citation

Brown, E. (2023, June 19). When what you have is not enough: Parshat Korah. The Torah of Leadership. YUTorah.org. Yeshiva University.