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Torah Talk for Parashat Korach

June 20, 2017 by Sharon Freundel (Community)

In this week’s parasha, Korach and his followers rebel against Moshe’s and Aharon’s leadership and are killed; Hashem instructs Aharon regarding laws of the priesthood. Korash rebelled against the leadership of Moshe and Aharon, and he and his followers were “swallowed up by the earth.”

The earth opening up and swallowing Korach’s assembly can be viewed as a natural event, an earthquake of sorts, or it can be seen as something supernatural. Read more >