Parshas Korach: "Battle of the Heavens" - What Was Korach Thinking {Chochmas Nashim}

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the desert where kairako swallow no just joking but but maybe next year but anyway uh the the Arabs said would you like to see I'm going to show you where karak was swallowed two clefts in the desert that were emanating smoke so the Arab he took he soaked the wall in water he then took a stick he took a spear he stuck the spear with the wool into the ground and he pulled it out and it was barbecued like we say alohesh you know it was it was singed so he said that's where karachas he's in he's in the oven downstairs then the Arab said listen carefully to what karaka is saying Ahmad go listen to what he's saying this moisture is true the Torah is true and we're phonies said how often does he say this every 30 days the Purgatory kicks up kairak to the surface like meat in a pie you know if you're cooking a cholant and there's meat in the pot you know the CH the meat is you know goes Stir It Up every so often every 30 days karak has kicked up to the surface actually there's an app now you could get to know exactly when kairak is about to surface okay but the question is so when when exactly is correct surfaced says [Applause] kicks up to the ground he says so the million dollar question is why does kairak make this admission every rosh khadesh it's today it's if they're two days then it's like old Old Faithful you know you wait there the day before Kaira comes you see the Taurus come you take a picture you could get um postcards you could get magnets keychains Cyrus that's question number one question number two what kind of guys did kairak gather to join him in his fight against so the plastic says he took 250 guys princes men of opportunity shame people of renown says the gemara what does this mean exactly the most distinguished individuals in the Jewish people Aid en they knew how to make an Ibraham you know in the Jewish calendar some months are 29 days some days someone said 30 days how do you uh intercalate how do you determine that it requires a very specific type of Torah knowledge so these who joined kairak they knew how to intercalate the calendar and what does it mean they were world famous so the question is I understand why kairak is taking prominent people because that would add to his argument meaning if he could show Moshe that it's not just my opinion but even the very prominent people agree with me so that would substantiate karak's argument I understand why kairak took famous people again that would lend Credence to what he was trying to accomplish but why would choirak specifically get tamide who knew how to intercalate the Jewish calendar I mean there are a lot of Specialties in halacha you know you have some rabbis they specialize in dollar minimum that's their thing ask them a question about they don't know nothing but they know uh astrog they know alulov that's one type of entire some rapunnams specialize in ouradea some in marriage some in monetary law so Kara could have gotten any type of talmud why specifically is karak getting who knew how to intercalate the calendar but here's the real question remember let's let's think back when did the story take place this is after the toe was given where was clairach where was kairak at the time of cabal satira he was there with the rest of the Jewish people now Hashem you come up to the mountain and I'm gonna speak to you face to face and all the Jewish people will see that I'm talking to you so that in you they will believe in ever but because of this Hashem tells Maisha they're going to believe in you forever so karak had front row seats Kirk was sitting there at Sinai he sees my charbainu going up the mountain he sees heaven come down onto the mountain he sees the almighty talk to my sharabino so what is this man thinking how could he start such a an argument he was a smart man how does he have the foolishness the audacity the stupidity to start up with my charbainu furthermore he's challenging the selection of arunachine you remember what happened for the seven days of the construction of the mishkan Maisha puts up the mishkan every day every day is putting up the mishkan and every day cloudy soul is surrounding and they're looking up to the sky to see if the shrina is coming down doesn't come down so Maisha says in Hashem this is embarrassing you tell me to put up the Mish gun but you know you ain't coming says no that's because we need arrow in hakain to come and do the avoida so everyone you know Arena kind comes Everyone's Watching Aaron walk into the mishkan he walks into the mishkan he brings his carbon Hashem comes down and kayak is is challenging the selection of Arena I mean three million people saw that much Rabino himself couldn't bring down the shrina and our own brings down the shkina and kairak is challenging the appointment of my shopping list it's a very interesting gamara tells us the Sun and the Moon stopped says the gemara what does this mean that ribana the Sun and the Moon says if you don't stand up for my sharabeno against kairak that's it we quit we're not shining we're not Rising we're not setting we're done rebanishan the Sun and the Moon committed to take a strike that if the almighty does not stand up from and kill kairak they're done there's no day there's no night there's no summer there's no winter isn't that odd that the Sun and the Moon should take up the cause of my shopping why is the Sun and the Moon interested in taking up the cause of my Shabana by the sin of the miraculum did the Sun and the Moon say yeah if uh if you don't kill these miraculum we're not going to shine We're Not Gonna Stand We're not gonna rise we're not going to set the Sun and the Moon never said they're gonna stand up against the miragulum by the Messianic by the ego the Jews are worshiping the golden calf to the Sun and the Moon say if you don't wipe out the perpetrators we're done we're going on we're we're retiring early why does the Sun and the Moon feel a need to stand up to my sharabinu in the battle against kairach so these are some of the questions and most importantly what was karak's punishment he was eaten by the Earth he was swallowed alive why not so many people have that Faith they're not that many sinners in the Hamish that the Earth opens up its mouth and swallows them why was that the fate of karach so I want to share with you an amazing Insight it's based on a plastic in the end of the parasha my shabino tells us with this you will know that God sent me to do everything that I said so listen carefully with this you will know that Hashem sent me this will prove Hashem sent me and then mosheads it was not my idea he just said that he says this should prove that God sent me what's he adding by saying kiloi milibi it's not my idea did you know there are three things that maestrobeno did that Hashem never told them to do but after he did them Hashem said Ken good job Style attaboy good good good going right not every one of those expressions more yeah first of all Maisha comes down he sees the Jewish people worshiping the golden calf what does he do he takes the lucrez he shatters the right God just gave him the Lucas from the right to break them he broke them good job what else did my Shabana do on his own said I want to give you the Torah on the 50th day after you leave Egypt so we count Spira day one day two day three day 49 day 50 Revolution says okay I'm ready to come like she said no no we're not ready tomorrow what do you mean the whole creation has been waiting for this day tomorrow I said tomorrow we're not right we don't want it today okay you're right let's wait one more day the tar was given on the 51st day of the aimer that's why the first two letters 51. what's the third thing mashabena did on his own Maisha separated from his life you know that moisha separated from sipara did he do the right thing after Kabbalah Satora now the truth is all the men separated from their wives they had to be in a state of purity after the Torah was given the posix says go tell the Jews go back to your tent meaning husband and wife back together again but then Hashem says you stay with me so Hashem said you're right you separated from your wife and I agree with you that's the gemara comes tices entices asks how do we know that Moshe came up with the idea on his own to separate from sipara and then Hashem said you're right maybe Hashem just told him separate how do we know Moshe came up with the idea first and then the almighty gave it a huskama maybe Hashem just told them to do in the first place says Titus he had to have come up that idea on his own because do you remember in last week Nerium speaks Lush and her about Maisha what was the Russian Hara that Miriam said about Maisha Miriam says about Maisha who does my brother think he is he's some far-front you know I'm also a navi and did I separate from my spouse Abra mavino he's also a pretty big Sadiq he never separated from Sarah yet never separate from rivka yaakov had had four wives he never separated from any of them so who does Maisha think he is that's the Russian Miriam if Hashem told Maisha to do it why would Miriam ever have spoken lashinhara it must be that moisha did it on his own got it you got the uh you got the story meaning if Miriam smoke Lush in horror and it's reckoned Russian Hara then it must be that it was Moishe's idea yeah but asked Isis but why would Miriam speak lushinhara if after Moshe came up with the idea Hashem said you're right so what was Miriam thinking okay you get the question question is Miriam speaks lesson about moisture here Lush and Hara is who does Maisha think he is to separate from sipira I'm also a navi I never separated from my husband so who doesn't think he is Miriam what are you doing don't you know that who told Maisha after harsinai to separate from sipara I'm sure Miriam asked Moishe brother what are you doing what's going on this doesn't look good for the family and I'm sure Maisha said Miriam you might be my big sister but the almighty told me this is what I need to do so why would Miriam speak you ready for this it was worthwhile to come to this year to hear this tysus says twice this Miriam says to myself I know Hashem told you to separate from sipira but why do you think Hashem endorsed your decision to separate from because you wanted to and you're at sadik and a Talman and the Lord goes along with what you want even though you're dead wrong you hear it what Tyson's saying that Miriam's Lush and Hara about Maisha was I know Hashem said you're right but Hashem said you're right because that's what you wanted you didn't want the right thing in other words what's Miriam saying you're abusing your kayak of being that means not every miracle that Hashem does for Sadiq shows that Sadiq is right the gemara tells us a story about Raman gamlia RAM gamliel used to have a policy that you have to be basically completely genuine to be allowed into the base mattress remember this unless you're no Hypocrites allowed so like one out of a hundred people were allowed into the basement and the rabbis had enough of them gamliel they demoted Ram gamliel they made who the Nasi remember the story becomes and I'll say okay everyone piles into the basement address I'll be available after this year Okay so the Rebbie Lazer is uh the Nasi everyone's piling into the basement and remember he feels really bad that he prevented so many people from learning Tyra so Hashem comes to him in a dream and Hashem you know basically gives him you know pat on the back it's okay it's okay and the gemara says it wasn't okay and he was wrong but Hashem gave him a pat on the back because he's a Sadiq so shamayim didn't want him to feel bad even though he was wrong so he had a Heavenly message that he's still a good Rabbi even though he made the wrong decision that was the Russian horror of Miriam can you imagine such a thing Miriam said I know I believe you that Hashem told you you should separate from sipara but the only reason Hashem said that is because he wanted it and Hashem always leads a person in their desired path right or wrong you know often people say oh they must be right look how much look how much success they're having nah success means nothing success means they really want to take that path so you want to take that path the emotion will lead you on that path but it doesn't mean they've been some endorses that path so comes revoice comes and they say that this opens up for us a major Vista in understanding the episode of Kaira kairath comes to Moshe he says Masha I don't understand you know my dad they're four brothers the benekahas amram was the oldest yitzhar was the second could you explain something to me Maisha why your father amram one kid is the leader of the Jewish people and then your next brother is the uh and then you gave to your cousin the nasias and you skipped over me so much just says what do you think happened over here you think there's nepotism you think I appointed Aaron on my own you think I appointed Elite safan on my own the riban Islam told me to appoint them car said I I know I was there at harsinai I know you're the man Maisha I know Hashem speaks to you face to face but I also know that whatever you ask him he goes along with so when I'm accusing you is that when you were on harsinai you said ribana let's keep this inside family job you know I'll be the leader I'll give my bro uh the Kahuna godila and uh my cousin My Pal I'll give him the nasios Hashem said Maisha whatever you want just ask whatever you want Sadiq go is there wasn't saying Hashem didn't endure was saying that the reason Hashem allowed Aaron's appointment is because you asked him says come on you think I would ask Hashem so listen to what karak says he says moisha actually I wouldn't accuse you of being so blatantly biased as to ask Hashem but Moshe I know how much Hashem values you even if you wouldn't ask him explicitly if you would just want Aaron to be the kind God though then gives the righteous what they desire you desire it Aaron you desire that lead suffering but if your heart would have been pure you would have wanted me because I'm more fit for the job than your brother that's the time of karach foreign therefore gathers together 250 men you know what they specialize in they specialize in being now there's one area of halacha like this what's the halacha if you you have a question in halacha right kosher traif and you Google the Shyla and the Google says you could eat it and you eat it and it turns out Google made a mistake are you a sugar amazed you're amazed don't ask Google Shiloh they they usually don't get the right answer what if you ask chat gbt what's the hawaka and you follow them ES you're amazing what what if you ask yeah my son you know he's learning in kylo I'm gonna ask him and he tells you something but he he doesn't have it right are you sure gig or Mesa you're amazed can I I know you love him are you very proud of him I know he got a he spoke at his uh at his pre-18 graduation but it doesn't mean he's a certified poisoning what if you don't you don't know you um so you called your sister-in-law and your sister yeah I once asked to rub the Shiloh and he told me X Y and Z and she does she she misremembered you're amazed you wouldn't ask any important question in that kind of fashion you have to ask a certified Place sake what's the if you ask a certified Place sake and they make a mistake you're shy but you did enough era you're a shark egg you need kapura it might not be your fault you're not amazing but you're a shy gig they made a mistake let's say you ask the rabbit kosher or traif and they say kosher but it was really truth so you ate traith you might have an excuse about you href they're not going to change the reality but there is an area in halacha where the rabbis if they make a mistake unintentionally then that's what the hell is if they make a mistake intentionally and that is when it comes Tosh it says again even if the rabbis make a mistake they say this and it wasn't even if they intentionally make a mistake the gamar tells us a famous story about Ram Gamaliel RAB Yeshua they saw the Moon they thought they did and then the next day they saw it new again and remember the next day ordered rabiyoshua to appear before him on the day that Rabbi Yeshua thought it was commanded to violate Yom Kippur and maybe short didn't know what to do and he went to Rabbit said it's not a problem is a different day even if it's wrong in Yom Kippur follows what the Rabbi says even if the rabbi is wrong what if the Rabbi says you know a Fridays so do you have to keep Shabbos on Friday no let's say they make a mistake by day and night can day and night change no day and night can change months could change in order to substantiate his claim that Moshe is abusing the power of the rabbanos to manipulate the almighty you hear you hear the claim of kayak is saying I know you're at Sadiq you're the bigger bigger Sadiq than me you're a bigger than me but you're abusing the power you have because what you want Hashem is going along with but you're not wanting the right thing you're wanting your brother you should want me and to prove that korach brings within 250 men who knew how to be because these guys in their line of business whatever they say they forced the hand of shamayim that if they say this is even if it's not if they say it's not it's not even if it is trying to say is the same way these 250 guys could twist the arm of the almighty that's what you're doing Masha you're twisting hashem's arm how so first car says you know you asked Hashem to appoint you want you want Aaron you want Aaron the same way Miriam her Russian horror was Maisha I know Hashem agreed you should separate from your spouse but he only agreed because you wanted it but really you should not have wanted it so Kirk says I know you want Aaron but why do you want Aaron you have a bias so what does Maisha say back to Karachi what does Rashi say Rashi says they're borders in this world the same way day can't be night and night can't be day you can't be the Cayenne and the levia can't be go to a non-lavy why is my job using the analogy of boycare day and night what he was telling to kairak was bad example my appointment of Aaron is not like khadashim it's like day and night if the rabbi mistakenly says okay it's night now you could say Krishna salarvis you can't say Krishna it's day now you could do Mila you could do um you can't do it the common don't have the power to make day in tonight an item today likewise I don't have any sway on who Kahuna belongs to who Livia belongs to your your erroneously invoking the power of in your argument against me in my appointment of Aaron that is why the Sun and the Moon said if you don't knock off this guy we quit because he is abusing us kairak is summoning the Sun and the Moon as evidence to sort of come up with a decision and force the hand of shamaim so by every other sin of the Jewish people the Sun and the Moon never wanted to get involved it's not their good shot at their business were they mixing in with the sins of the Mirage but in this situation kairak is marshalling the Sun and the Moon to prove that can make a decision and force the hand of shamayam so the Sun and Moon said if this guy is going to abuse us we're done we're finished we don't we're not going to serve anymore we're retiring Young sure yeah Joshua did that and and um for yakovino yakovino comes to harabayas sunsets early yeah yeah comes back to Earth Israel the sun rises early right so you see that the have power over by the way I'll tell you something else there's a hawaka that without getting into all the details at three years old the gemara says a certain physiological change happens to a girl okay that's what the gamar says what if a girl is two years and 11 months and they're about to turn three years old and the rabbi say you know we should really make a neighbor you are we're going to add a month so then what then the physiological change doesn't happen correct the gamar says by the rabbanon coming and adding a month to the year it will change the biology of a human being and if let's say if let's say it's there is an embryo and they take it out it changes it the other way meaning are given the capacity to change the calendar to the extent that they will change human phenomenon could stop the moon and but if they say it's night and they're wrong it doesn't make a night in other words in in halacha they could perhaps make a miracle they'll stop the sun they'll stop the Moon but if they say erroneously right now it's night time or they say in the nighttime it's day that doesn't change the reality they can't change reality of day and night they could change the reality of the uh segment of the month let's talk about why karach was swallowed by The Grand when Hashem offers a Torah to the Jewish people what was the response to the Jewish people but on the other hand the gemara tells us that Hashem suspended the mountain over a head like a barrel he said it says if you accept some take for us otherwise you're going to be swallowed by the ground you're gonna you're gonna be uh crushed by the mountain so it's a contradiction did we accept the Torah willingly or did we have to be coerced so the well-known answer is the written law we accepted willingly we had to be forced into it so that means that if someone doesn't accept the oral law what's the punishment of not accepting the tarshabalpa the punishment is being swallowed alive so kairak was not challenging Hashem Kirk was not challenging the toyrat civilanu Maisha Kirk was challenging the kayak of moisha as the one who disseminates the orola he was challenging the tarshaba path he was saying you're not faithful in your capacity of the one who gives the or Allah Israel because you're using personal bias to manipulate the hand of Heaven so because karach is a is accusing my shabano of not being loyal as the torch bearer of his punishment was he was swallowed Alive by the ground actually the gemara also says that anyone who is Miss at cell anyone who's lazy in eulogizing he is deserving of being buried alive why again he's not showing the proper covered to the Shabbat Israel The Story Goes uh used to go he would go to the mineral baths in Carlsbad marianbad pachani you know even till today goes there they have a certain mineral baths that are good for uh arthritis so the thumb Surfer was once there and he goes into the bath and they have these big heavy metal doors now it's good to be in a in a hot bath but if you're there too long then then you know like you know anyway the the metal door is closed and some Server doesn't know what to do he's gonna be closed up alive in this mineral bath that's gonna be the end because I'm sorry for quickly thinks to himself why am I being buried alive because I'll say anyone who you legit is lazy to eulogize should be buried alive some Services was there any time that I didn't eulogize properly he says no but it must be there is a time at hakam somewhere that I need to eulogize he was a macabo as soon as he gets out he comes out he hears word rev David deich passed away some suffer want to be masked him this is what happened to kairag he's challenging my shabinus capacity of The Giver of the tarsh about what's karak's proof how do we know that have the ability to make a mistake and to use bias and shamaim will go along with it what's the proof what's calendar date proves that you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com