Shnayim Yomi - Korach - D'var Torah

[Music] this week we learned about korach and the rebellion he waged against moshe and essentially the entire jewish people caused horrible calamities and all of this came from a place of honor and respect that he was looking for that apparently he was not getting and this teaches us a tremendous lesson about the concept of conflict and fighting and disagreements we see that it is something that is so so dangerous it destroys so much teaches us that not only are there plenty of other issues and sins that are involved in such as jealousy and slander lashon haran mutsi shembra saying things are not true about another but we see that even though most punishments that are given such as karet being cut off is only from when a person maybe 13 may bar mitzvah or maybe 20 however here we see that even the young children suffered because of this horrible sin and i want to share with you a mishna this mission has in the fifth pair of pirikavot mishna 17 it says any dispute that is for shemsheim the sake of god you have pure intentions it's going to be everlasting but any dispute that is not for the sake of god there's no pure intentions is not going to be everlasting the mesha continues and says what is a dispute that is honest seeking truth that is going to be everlasting and that is the dispute between shamai and hillel that's your mind beth hilal they always used to dispute different halachic rulings in our torah to try to understand what does god want from me how can i fulfill it properly and what is a mahloket dispute is not an everlasting one because it's not with pure intentions and that is korach as the mishnah says his assembly one second should say moshe versus and many other commentaries and say no no no karach was fighting with himself quran was korach was fighting yes against moshe benu but mashirapin was not fighting against korach korach was the one who in who started this conflict he was causing a tremendous amount of tumult amongst the jewish people he was searching and seeking for his own honor for his own pride for his own leadership when a person is seeking conflict both sides everyone loses out in this conflict moshe benu was not involved he turned to hashem how to handle it and hashem took care of it so tooth we should not be running towards conflict running towards dispute or even answering towards it we should run away as much as possible we should escape we should always be the nirdaf the pursuit rather than the rodep the one who is [Music] pursuing you