{"id":1188,"date":"2015-05-20T22:58:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1188"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:58:11","slug":"korach-5769","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1188","title":{"rendered":"Korach (5769)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Korach (5769)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This rebellion involves 4 players: \u00a0Korach, Moshe, the Israelites, and God.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Korach both seems to have a reasonable goal (Ch 16, v3) and spreads lies (Ch 16, v 12ff). From him we learn how to be a demagogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Midrash says that Korach was treasurer for Pharaoh and he felt that Moses overlooked him. But Korach takes a personal grievance into community conflict<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Midrash also says that Korach spread tales about Moses abusing a widow and her two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 From Moses, we learn how to be a leader. He prostrates himself (Ch 16, v 4) and defends both Aaron and God but not himself (Ch 16, v 11). He visits the rebels to try to talk to them (Ch 16, v 25).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 From all this the Talmud teaches that one must not be obdurate in a quarrel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Individual honor and personal glory are not the prime elements of leadership. \u00a0Maintaining the community is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 God says to Moses: stand back so that I can destroy them (Ch 16, v 21, 22). Added, 5776 after conversation with Jennifer Mangel: From God we learn humility (to be able to change your mind) and to assign a judgment correct to the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Israelites are not committed to either side &#8212; they choose to see how it would play out and then complain (Ch 17, v8). \u00a0This is how not to be a citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Korach (5769) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This rebellion involves 4 players: \u00a0Korach, Moshe, the Israelites, and God. \u2022 Korach both seems to have a reasonable goal (Ch 16, v3) and spreads lies (Ch 16, v 12ff). From him we learn how to be a demagogue. \u2022 The Midrash says that Korach was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions\/2409"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}