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KORACH 5759
PARSHA SUMMARYKorach Korach, of the tribe of Levi, along with Dathan and Aviram began a rebellion against Moses... To prove which tribe was divinely chosen for the priesthood... The Jews expressed their fear of dying, by mistakenly coming too close to the Tabernacle... The Levites and Kohanim won't receive a share in the land of Israel... 
INSIGHTVillain Or Visionary? This Parsha raises an obvious question: How is it that an entire portion of G-d’s Torah is named after a person like Korach? Korach, after all, was a wicked man who failed to repent even before his death. Last week's selection |
CORNERSTONES
Chassidic School Ushers Revival Of Lithuanian Scholarship The school's opening became a landmark in the context of Jewish history. Vilnius, also known as Vilna, was once a crown jewel of European Jewish learning and life, with 60,000 Jews and 94 synagogues. Yeshivas (places of Jewish scholarship) abounded and the city was home to the famous Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, known as the Vilna Gaon... TREND SETTERS Rabbi Commends Legislators For Calling On Divine Inspiration Lost among the hoopla surrounding the gun bill tie-vote of May 20th, broken by Vice President Al Gore, was the opening of the Senate that morning. Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of the Upper Midwest branch of Chabad Lubavitch, opened the Senate with a special prayer. 
CHILDRENA Poisonous Proposition One day Hakim came before Sultan Saladin and told him that he had discovered a plot to poison the sultan—and that none other than Maimonides was at the bottom of it. The sultan paled with fright, but could not believe such a thing of his trusted physician and friend. "If you can prove that what you say is true, I will have Maimonides beheaded; but if you cannot prove it, I shall have you beheaded instead," the sultan said. "I can certainly prove it," the Muslim physician said... |
