Believe it or not, a large number of Israelites did not get what Moses and Aaron’s leadership was all about. For Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses our Teacher, the Korah rebellion hits a personal low, precisely because the rebels degrade and trivialize what Moses has been doing. Our parashah dramatizes Moses and Aaron versus Korah and his company as a core conflict about the nature of divine service.

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