Korach - We Need You! | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is D lowski and welcome to the paraa in five we in five minutes we try to give you an idea for the paraa that you can hopefully use at your shabas table to enhance maybe scintillated cocktail parties and uh we are up to Paras kak what a sad story korak was one of the greats of kisel you have to be pretty great to get clly Isel on your side against mosha rabenu mosha Renu the guy with rays of light shining out of his face as uh as KH says when he wants to shift the narrative he says that's not all Ben amram's done to us and it was like yeah yeah he took us out of Egypt and he split the sea and he gave us the m and he that's pretty good points and korak K didn't do any of those things yeah so um uh korak must have been pretty great if in fact in fact MOS did all these things for clel and they were still willing to follow korak what drove him soan says a very interesting thing it says that uh in par in order to become a Ley you had to be completely shaved your head your beard your pis everything so it came out looking like a like a egg and then um Aon of course had to pick you up and wave you so Mrs korak says to her husband mosha was afraid of you and he wants to make a fool out of you so he had him shaved like an egg and had his brother wave you like a baby because he's afraid of your impact and he wants to strip you of your ability now the medish says this was fertile ground because when korak came out and he went among people no one knew who he was anymore because he was totally shaven so he felt like he was being stripped of his ability to be mashia people want to give people want to have an impact and if I sense that you're trying to strip me of my ability to be able to do something something good something for clel I'll take you down that's the the tragedy of korak the tragedy of korak was if you just waited korak is the same letters as the word K bold he felt bold he felt like he wasn't able to grow he wasn't able to impact he wasn't able to reach out and that got him so crazy that he was going to go to war against Moser reenu and try to take him down because he was so upset of the sense of inability to be able to give you know sometimes there are kids who are not doing so well they're not off the Der but not you know happy with the pro they're not happy campers as what we used to say and people say to me what can I do for these kids and I say get them something to do let them learn with somebody let them get involved in a organization the more they can do something then the better they're going to feel about themselves but if they feel like no one has any use for me I did a question answer once and basically every question was a variation of of why is the system turning my kid off to Judaism and I said because when I started in the Hebrew Academy of Nassar County in 1964 if you read the literature from the time it was clear that Orthodoxy was dead in America everyone knew it I had already written our eulogy and uh the fact that you decided to go to an orthodox School meant that you were a hero and if you were a hero then they couldn't throw you out they needed you and today kids get a message we don't need you here I've got three other kids waiting for your spot step out of line and you're gone so if nobody needs me and it doesn't make a difference whether I'm here or not who cares and so we need to make people feel that they have what to contribute you know how many times I met from people they said to me I don't feel like God cares if I live or die I said listen he's got no shortage of ways of getting ra you so if you're still here it's because he wants you here because you have something in this world that only you can do and the more we Empower people to be able to go out and do great things the word does not mean to learn it means to dedicate like it means to dedicate we need to dedicate children to a cause and will be to see everybody make their contribu tions Chavis