Korach

This week's Torah reading, Korach, starts out with Korach and his band of followers challenging the leadership of Moses, saying "Aren't we all holy?  Weren't we all at Sinai? What makes you so special?"   It's a very troubling story, both for what Korach did -- seeking his own glory -- and for what...
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At the opening of parshat Korach, this week’s Torah reading, Moses and Aaron, two brothers, have consolidated all the significant political and religious power to themselves. Moses is the temporal power – seemingly self-appointed President for life – and Aaron is the religious power, appointed, not elected, high priest for life. They have declared that the...
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Earlier this week Warren Buffet, the world’s second richest man, announced that he is giving $25 billion to the world’s richest man. Well, he’s not exactly giving the money to Bill Gates. He’s giving the money to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization that is already the largest private foundation in...
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Why is it that some people who seem to be very frum (Jewishly observant), who no doubt take the mitzvot very seriously, ignore the commandment "v'ahavta l'ra'acha k'mocha," love your neighbor as yourself?  Why do some people take very seriously the rabbinic fences around separation of meat and dairy, yet they ignore the rabbinic...
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