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R. Rachel: Good morning, good shubs. It is the 20th of June.

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R. Rachel: It is the 5th of Tammuz, and we are in Parashat Korath.

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R. Rachel: Which is known primarily for the one thing, big thing that happens in it, which is…

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R. Rachel: Korach standing up to Moshe, which is either the best idea ever or the worst idea ever, depending on which

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R. Rachel: angle you take, and we'll go delving into that today, and what is the nature of

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R. Rachel: of a machlok at Lashem Shemayim, a disagreement for the sake of heaven, as opposed to a disagreement for the sake of something that is not heaven.

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R. Rachel: I invite us to put in the chat box the names of those for whom we're praying for healing.

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R. Rachel: This morning.

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R. Rachel: Those whom we're holding in our hearts.

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R. David (he/him): And I believe there's a dedication as well.

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R. Rachel: And there's a, who would like… someone would like to dedicate our learning?

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R. Rachel: Meredith!

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Meredith (she/her): I wanted to dedicate our learning today to my mom.

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Meredith (she/her): It is her one-year yard site.

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Meredith (she/her): It was yesterday.

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Meredith (she/her): And so I wanna hold her up today.

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R. Rachel: Thank you for that.

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R. Rachel: May the merit of our learning

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R. Rachel: flow to her, Nasama, and may our learning comfort you as you move through this door of anniversary.

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Meredith (she/her): Thank you.

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R. Rachel: vanu, Torah.

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R. Rachel: Bless are you, Adonai our God, sovereign of all creation.

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R. Rachel: You make us holy in your mitzvot, and you command us to immerse ourselves in words of Torah.

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R. Rachel: As our opening this morning, to open not only the mind, but also the heart.

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R. Rachel: We have words from the Israeli poet Yehuda Amishai.

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R. Rachel: And that poem is in front of us. Would someone like to read the poem?

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R. Rachel: The place where we are right.

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Diana Rico: I would love to read him.

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Diana Rico: Can you scroll up a little bit, Rabbi?

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Diana Rico: Okay, thank you.

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Diana Rico: The place where we are right.

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Diana Rico: From the place where we are right.

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Diana Rico: Flowers will never blossom in the spring.

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Diana Rico: The place where we are right is trampled and hard like a yard.

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Diana Rico: But doubts and loves dig up the world like a mole, like a plow.

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Diana Rico: And whisper will be heard in the place where once stood the ruined house.

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R. Rachel: Hmm…

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R. Rachel: Yeah.

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R. Rachel: And that yellow highlighting maybe makes the idea of the house pop for us a little bit.

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R. Rachel: As in the best poems, this one is simultaneously about many things.

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R. Rachel: I also love the word for mole, which I had never before known until reading this poem.

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R. Rachel: Is it par parent?

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R. David (he/him): our parents.

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R. Rachel: Or parrot, that's just a cute word for mole.

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R. Rachel: The, you know, the digging kind.

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R. David (he/him): Something about the importance of Something more important than… being right.

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R. David (he/him): which becomes… relevant.

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R. David (he/him): to the story of Korach, as we're going to see.

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R. David (he/him): And because a picture is worth a thousand… yep, and because a picture is worth a thousand words.

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R. David (he/him): We have for you.

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R. David (he/him): A thousand words.

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R. Rachel: So look at that for a moment to take that in.

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R. Rachel: You can see…

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R. David (he/him): Iris is laughing.

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R. David (he/him): What's funny, Iris?

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R. Rachel: upper right corner, the… looks like the, Tavern, the Mishkan.

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Iris Barten: It is some laughing at the…

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Iris Barten: kind of exaggeration, which I think is an invitation, in a way. The Mega Holland and Lamb… Lambdale Mega Holland.

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Iris Barten: And we are all holy, which is true, but…

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Iris Barten: Le Chaim's author of the davening.

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Iris Barten: You know, remain…

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Iris Barten: It's, like, it's true to think about life, but it's just funny how it's said, and like, you know, that invitation…

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Iris Barten: The exaggeration.

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R. Rachel: There are places that do a lechaim, a cheers, a toast, midway through davening, or maybe after the Devar Torah.

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R. Rachel: This is often in synagogues where Shabbat morning services might go for 4 or 5 hours.

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R. Rachel: Easy.

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R. Rachel: So, of course, you gotta pause midway through for a lechaim and a snack, because otherwise, how would you get through? But this is promising. You can make toasts all the way through prayer. Just, you know, hang out with your shot glass.

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Iris Barten: What's Dr.

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Iris Barten: It's not funny, because it is about life, not raving.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah.

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Sherrill Cropper: Pretty crowded in that shul.

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R. David (he/him): Sure.

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R. Rachel: Does look that way.

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R. David (he/him): It's like, how much is it enough?

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Rachel Rudansky: I see a little bit of a cross on the Old Minion there.

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R. David (he/him): Yep.

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R. Rachel: I think that's meant to… I don't know what that is, but I don't…

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Rachel Rudansky: Well, I think it's a bit of a pun. Whatever it is, it's there, and when I first saw it, I thought of…

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Rachel Rudansky: That… there's a Christian translation going on there.

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R. Rachel: Mmm.

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R. David (he/him): Boom.

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Iris Barten: Does it also have… Sort of a circle, like it's a revolving door or something.

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Iris Barten: I don't know, it just looks like there's new and ply, but…

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R. David (he/him): Bye.

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Iris Barten: Like, maybe being too cynical. Not so… Grateful.

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R. David (he/him): Well, I mean, what… What this is, you know, queuing up is parody, farce, egotism.

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R. David (he/him): exaggeration. I mean, just listen to the words that are being used.

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R. David (he/him): So, what tracks are being laid down here? How does community Deal with controversy.

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R. David (he/him): Come to me!

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R. David (he/him): This is Korach!

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R. Rachel: Well, we're about to see what is Quora.

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R. David (he/him): Anybody want to see what is Koros?

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R. David (he/him): Let's see what is Cora.

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Sherrill Cropper: Yeah, sure.

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Sherrill Cropper: I just want to say that, you know, in Buddhism, there's a whole thing about correct teacher.

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Sherrill Cropper: And ways to define that teacher, ways to define the student.

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Sherrill Cropper: And, and converse when that always comes up in… with current leaders.

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Sherrill Cropper: It's a discussion about who's there for the ego of themselves, and wanting to hear all of that.

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Sherrill Cropper: So…

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R. David (he/him): money you should mention. So here's coral.

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R. Rachel: We have 5… sections?

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R. Rachel: Let's have 5 readers!

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R. David (he/him): Let's see if I can… maybe I missed something.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Karak, son of Itza, son of…

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Kehart, son of Levi, took himself and Datan and Avram, son of…

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Elevah, and An, son of Pelot, descendants of Reuven.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: They rose up before Moshe with 250 children of Israel.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: All community chiefs, called by the assembly, men of renown.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: They congregated against Mosh and Aaron, saying to them, Enough of you! All the community is holy, and Adonoi is among them.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Why do you live your… lift yourself above the community of Illinois?

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R. David (he/him): Ta-da!

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David Green: Moshe heard and fell on his face. He spoke to Korach and all his company, saying.

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David Green: Come morning, Adonai will make known who is gods and who is holy by drawing them close.

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David Green: The one whom God will choose will draw close.

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David Green: You, Korach, and all his band, do this.

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David Green: Take for yourselves fire pans.

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Sherrill Cropper: Tomorrow, put fire and incense on them before Adena.

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Sherrill Cropper: The one whom I deny chooses will be the Holy One.

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Sherrill Cropper: Enough of you sons of Levi, Moshe said to Korach.

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Sherrill Cropper: Please listen, sons of Levi. Is it too little for you that the God of Israel separated you from the community of Israel to draw you close to do the service of the Mishkan and stand before the community to serve them?

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R. David (he/him): We need readers, please.

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Meredith (she/her): God drew close.

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Meredith (she/her): God drew close you and your Levite brothers, and you seek the priesthood too?

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Meredith (she/her): So, it is against Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh that you and all your company rebel.

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Meredith (she/her): Who is Aron that you should rail against him? Moshe sent for Datan and Aviram, sons of Elyav, but they said, we will not ascend to you.

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Meredith (she/her): Is it not enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert that you lured it over us?

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R. David (he/him): Ta-da!

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R. Rachel: Last one.

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Joan Green: Moshe was greatly angered and said to Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh, do not turn to their ablations.

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Joan Green: I did not… I did not take even one donkey from them, or wrong any one of them.

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Joan Green: Moshe said to Korach, you and all your company.

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Joan Green: Be before Yudhav-Heh tomorrow. Them and Aharon each will take your fire pan and draw close with incense on it.

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Joan Green: Before you'd have of 250 men with their fire pants, and you and Aharon, also with your fire pants.

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R. Rachel: So this is our core text.

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R. David (he/him): Yep, later God will say, Alright.

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R. David (he/him): Get out of my way, I'm gonna get him.

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R. David (he/him): And the people separated from the 250.

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R. David (he/him): And…

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R. David (he/him): Fire came down to their fire pans and took what was in their fire pans and them along with it, and the earth opened up and swallowed them, all except Korach's own sons.

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R. David (he/him): Oof.

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R. David (he/him): Oof, oomph, oomph.

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R. Rachel: So, what do we see here?

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R. Rachel: What's curious, what calls out for explanation?

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David Green: I,

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David Green: I was interested in the very first reaction. Moshe heard and fell on his face. It's not evident to me what that means, is that

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David Green: Humility? Is that indignation? Is that taking… counting to 24 before reacting?

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David Green: What?

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David Green: You know.

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R. David (he/him): The literature says, as before, and Moses was the most humble person on Earth, one of the

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R. David (he/him): There are many leadership lessons here.

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R. David (he/him): Before you go and respond.

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R. David (he/him): You stop.

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R. David (he/him): You go to the ground, you consider the truth of what is said, you…

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R. David (he/him): Approach in humility where you can.

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R. Rachel: So this, this is generally understood by the tradition as a gesture of

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R. Rachel: Profound humility, could also say grounding, like, right, literally, down to the earth.

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R. David (he/him): But not what we would expect, right?

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David Green: Well, I don't… Yeah. No.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah. What else do we see?

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R. David (he/him): Cheryl.

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Sherrill Cropper: Be grieve?

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Sherrill Cropper: Is that the…

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R. David (he/him): He created.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah, all the Korban notes, Hikriv, Korban, Karev, all the stuff we saw in the book of Leviticus.

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R. David (he/him): It's back.

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Sherrill Cropper: Remind me why that is so special, and you put it in red?

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R. David (he/him): A korban is literally a that which draws close. He grieve is to draw close.

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R. David (he/him): But a korban is also, in English, a rendering of an offering, a sacrifice, yeah.

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R. David (he/him): And here come all the hands.

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Sherrill Cropper: Saying, but we're saying that,

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Sherrill Cropper: A sacrifice would seem it would be what happens to Korach. However… Close, in this case.

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Sherrill Cropper: would seem to be getting closer to God. So then I guess the question is if God does draw him

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Sherrill Cropper: Close.

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Sherrill Cropper: that… Is that something special in and of itself?

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Sherrill Cropper: That he becomes the sacrifice, although his children can go on and have actually pretty important parts, right?

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R. David (he/him): Yes. Yes, that's right.

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R. David (he/him): That's right. There are several puns here.

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R. Rachel: I don't know if anyone… there's another big story that we encountered some weeks ago about the children of Aaron.

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R. Rachel: who attempt to draw near to God with strange fire.

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R. Rachel: And are themselves

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R. Rachel: burned and taken up to God, so there's some ambiguity here about, like, what… be careful what you wish for.

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R. Rachel: There's drawing near to God in a way that's healthy and holy, and then there's drawing near to God in a way that's deadly.

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R. David (he/him): And then there's Drawing Near to God, which actually isn't Drawing Near to God, and here come all the hands. I think it was Meredith Joan Iris.

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Meredith (she/her): I guess… I'm responding to this selection process.

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Meredith (she/her): You know, we are all equal in the eyes of God, but you guys are above that.

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Meredith (she/her): And so, it's like… They're… they're… it feels like maybe that they're cast out?

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Meredith (she/her): That they're not included?

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R. Rachel: That who is cast out?

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Meredith (she/her): The one, Korach.

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Meredith (she/her): Corach, yeah.

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R. Rachel: Okay.

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Meredith (she/her): The ones… yeah. So, there's this division of power, you know, this separation.

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R. Rachel: Okay.

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R. David (he/him): We're here, let's ask a quick question. How many people think Korach is right, at least in part?

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R. Rachel: I'm seeing some hands.

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R. David (he/him): How many of us think all the community is holy, and Yod-Heh-Vapeh is among them?

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R. Rachel: Correct?

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R. Rachel: Absolutely correct.

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R. Rachel: No question in my mind that that's correct.

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R. David (he/him): Which, by the way, is one of the reasons that Rabbi Rachel and I aspire to do all that we can to not hold ourselves above the congregation.

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R. Rachel: Right.

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R. David (he/him): We believe that, too.

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R. Rachel: All of the community is holy, and God is among the community. Absolutely. Period.

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R. Rachel: Unquestionably.

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R. David (he/him): So there's something here!

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R. Rachel: I, I also heard something about,

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R. Rachel: So there's something here about…

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R. Rachel: So it's worth noting that he's not an ordinary Israelite, he's also part of the priestly class.

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R. Rachel: Just to complicate matters.

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R. David (he/him): Yup.

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R. Rachel: Alright, so I know I've forgotten who was in Rabbi.

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R. David (he/him): Joan… Joan Iris Ellen Ruth.

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Joan Green: This speaks to me of the dangers of Leadership.

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Joan Green: thought to be haughty or more knowledgeable, bossy, holier, closer to God.

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Joan Green: You have divisions when you have leadership, and it's inevitable at some point, we've all seen it, that there is an uprising, so to speak.

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Joan Green: So, here we have an uprising.

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Iris Barten: So I also remember then, as you said, Rabbi Rachel, that Koach was part of the Levites, and didn't they… were they the ones who carried the Mishkan, or the only ones who were allowed to take care of it?

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Iris Barten: I just wonder about that, if it's, you know, things have developed and matured to a point, and Adonoia's giving kind of a second chance intergenerationally.

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R. Rachel: Takora.

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R. David (he/him): Excellent.

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R. Rachel: That's an inter… it's an interesting read.

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R. Rachel: I like that.

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R. David (he/him): Notice the responses.

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R. David (he/him): Korath goes gets 250 peeps, and comes at Moses.

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R. David (he/him): and says, Moses, you're not all that.

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R. David (he/him): He doesn't go and get $250.

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R. David (he/him): He talks to the crowd, And then, notice in the third set of paragraph.

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R. David (he/him): Then Moses says to Korach, not everybody.

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R. David (he/him): Please.

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R. Rachel: Isn't it enough for you? You have a role, isn't your role enough for you?

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R. David (he/him): So, Korach doesn't go privately to Moses and say, hey, Moses.

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R. David (he/him): There's a thing, we've got a question.

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R. David (he/him): He just goes and leads a rebellion, and publicly challenges him. Moses doesn't.

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R. Rachel: I want to lift up in the chat, James is pointing out there's an issue of kavana.

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R. Rachel: Right intention? Yes, the whole community is holy, but is Korach saying that with the right intention, is a question.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah.

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R. Rachel: Marcy notes that Koroch's timing and presentation were lousy? Yeah, maybe, maybe…

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R. Rachel: Maybe he didn't need to confront Moshe in front of everybody like this. And Meredith notes it's painful to think that Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh

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R. Rachel: How are those who are not drawn close supposed to feel? Of course, those who are drawn close… drawn close here are the ones who are swallowed by fire.

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R. Rachel: So there's an open question about, do we want to be drawn close to God in this way?

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R. David (he/him): Thank you, God, please choose somebody else.

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R. Rachel: All right, Ellen Ruth, and then Cheryl.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: In… in my life experience.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: our cliches, as the Tibetan Buddhists would say, or our mission to Gas, as we would say.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: So, I would like to turn on its head something about the way we're looking at this.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: At… why don't we… Moses's, engagement with God as being of service.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Rather than this leadership idea.

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Ellen Ruth Topol: I'd like to say… see it like that.

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R. David (he/him): Yup?

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R. Rachel: what I… what I hear you saying is the model of the servant leader, that Moses serves the people.

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R. Rachel: He doesn't see himself as being better than, or at the head of, or at the top of.

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R. Rachel: He seeks to serve the community and God. Am I hearing that right?

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Ellen Ruth Topol: What I was referring to as clacius and Mishagas is the way… I don't know if I'm pronouncing this correctly, Korak…

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Ellen Ruth Topol: is… perceiving the situation. It's his…

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Ellen Ruth Topol: Michigan escalations that, makes this a situation of duality and miss seeing the situation as it really is.

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R. Rachel: Thank you for that. Cheryl?

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Sherrill Cropper: So, further reading on this, including what James has written this week, actually.

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Sherrill Cropper: And… Moshe… Is, you know, like, loving-kindness and Netzah, which is considered the right side.

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Sherrill Cropper: of the tree, and stands for, you know, the loving-kindness, and Netzakh, like,

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Sherrill Cropper: Rabbi David used a different term, but I hear it as, like, personal mission, and commitment.

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R. David (he/him): Endurance, Resilience, Energizer Bunny.

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Sherrill Cropper: And usually, we need all of these together.

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Sherrill Cropper: they elevate.

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Sherrill Cropper: And yet here, there's some… like, family… craziness.

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R. David (he/him): Go ahead.

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Sherrill Cropper: gone.

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Sherrill Cropper: Between them, as opposed to…

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Sherrill Cropper: I will say, drawing close each side.

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R. David (he/him): Yeah.

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R. David (he/him): If Torah is using… yeah, if Torah is using the same word over and over and over again, it's… she's begging us to really ask

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R. David (he/him): What is it?

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R. David (he/him): And some of you have put that in very stark relief. Korach was right, but Korach didn't do it with the right intention. Korach was right, but was using it for his own whatever.

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R. David (he/him): Quora.

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R. David (he/him): Saw everything through the lens of superiority, inferiority, and therefore he had had enough.

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R. David (he/him): He had had enough.

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Sherrill Cropper: Yeah, he just stuck with Devorah, as opposed to being open to other things. Right.

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R. Rachel: inequality unbalanced.

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R. Rachel: Has the capacity to overwhelm.

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Sherrill Cropper: condemns entire families through generations, and here does not do that.

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R. David (he/him): Let's not do that.

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Sherrill Cropper: James, I'd like to hear you expound a little bit more on this, because… This is,

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Sherrill Cropper: this is a particular Parsha that is just painful and difficult, and not one that is beloved by me, and

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Sherrill Cropper: reading… reading one that… reading what James had written this week, and I'm not very good at reading them every week, so something drew me to that this week.

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Sherrill Cropper: Which I call Divine Direction, really helped me.

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R. David (he/him): Understood.

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Sherrill Cropper: So, he may have something a little bit more for other people as well.

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R. David (he/him): James, before handing it over to you, just a 15-second comment. In most rabbinic circles, the name of this Torah portion is something like Korath. Oh, goody.

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R. David (he/him): Because… For all the reasons you've already said.

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R. David (he/him): So… James, go for it, and then we'll see what else is here.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): So I've always hated this portion as well.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Was it just, on the surface, it's just like.

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Sherrill Cropper: I hate her!

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): But, Zohar.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): looks at this, more as the living architecture of divine emanation, the whole Tree of Life thing.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): One thing that's particularly absent from this that I notice when I look at it from that perspective, is hookmah and Bina, and that's, of course, wisdom and understanding.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): It's just not here.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): It's just not here. And the Kavana argument makes it even more clear. We're talking about, you know, about heaven here. Is this really in the best interest of heaven? And it's not.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Because that's not Korok's complaint. He's not doing this for heaven, he's doing this for himself, he's doing this for his followers, and…

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): ostensibly for the people. And in this particular case, as Cheryl mentioned, we have Moses representing Nesach, we have Aaron.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Try it at the bottom, but that's different.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And… that's the right side of the tree. But then, here comes Gevorah and Hode, And they're seeking primacy.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Over the right side of the tree.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And that just… that doesn't work, because it blows up the balance.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): The people at this time But they lack your sowed.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): They're holding it all together at the bottom of the tree without Yasod.

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R. Rachel: It's funny how, if a community is out of balance, nothing really works right.

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R. Rachel: The importance of…

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R. Rachel: Balance cannot be overstated, and I say that knowing that both Rabbi David and I have independently reached the same conclusion, that that needs to be our high holiday theme this year.

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R. Rachel: Balance.

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James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): To ferret is the harmonizing principle that holds the tree together.

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R. Rachel: What does it mean to live in balance?

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R. David (he/him): So you say.

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R. Rachel: So we'll be,

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R. Rachel: We'll be going deep into this in the months to come. So, you know, the checks in the mail.

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R. David (he/him): What else is in the room?

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R. David (he/him): Joan.

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Joan Green: I have, some… I have some incomplete thoughts about the notion that, God chooses.

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R. David (he/him): Hmm.

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Joan Green: I would like to… I would like to flip it around that…

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Joan Green: When you are ready to come forth with your pan.

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Joan Green: You have made the decision that you're going to allow yourself to draw close to God.

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Joan Green: Whatever… whatever that entails for you, and whatever that means to you, wherever you're coming from, and wherever you expect to go.

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Joan Green: the work. God… God, let's say God is good at all this, and, performs what God chooses to, but it is our responsibility

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Joan Green: to, to do the work.

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Joan Green: And, Moshe knew that.

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R. David (he/him): I'm ta- I'm taking it in the chat.

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R. Rachel: What else is… arising for us, what else are we feeling?

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R. Rachel: Maybe it's time to shift into looking at

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R. Rachel: And the first thing we've got is this little piece from Exodus. If you hear my voice and keep my covenant, you will be my treasure among all the nations. All the earth is mine, but you will be to me, Kadosh, a kingdom of priests and a holy people. So this seems to be what…

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R. Rachel: Korach is drawing on.

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R. Rachel: Then, what does it mean for there to be priests?

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R. David (he/him): Yup. Remember, we've seen before Hey, there are prophets in the house!

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R. David (he/him): But they're not supposed to be prophets, and they go to Moses and say, stop them, and Moses says.

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R. David (he/him): It should only be that everybody's a prophet.

392
00:34:58.680 --> 00:35:03.929
R. David (he/him): It should only be And we see it here again.

393
00:35:04.970 --> 00:35:13.100
R. David (he/him): What does it mean for people to step forward or be brought forward under circumstances where we purport to aspire

394
00:35:13.730 --> 00:35:15.760
R. David (he/him): to complete equality.

395
00:35:16.370 --> 00:35:18.570
R. David (he/him): Of value and meaning and purpose.

396
00:35:20.690 --> 00:35:23.100
R. Rachel: Well, this does get at a…

397
00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:31.389
R. Rachel: One of the questions that seems to be keying up is, is it possible… separate but equal?

398
00:35:32.110 --> 00:35:32.870
R. Rachel: Right.

399
00:35:33.550 --> 00:35:34.230
R. Rachel: Keep…

400
00:35:34.230 --> 00:35:34.760
R. David (he/him): Hawaii.

401
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:35.559
R. Rachel: Well, but…

402
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:49.169
R. Rachel: If we are all… we are all equally holy, we are all equally important, we are all equally a part of God's people, and at the same time, might we have different roles within that people?

403
00:35:49.170 --> 00:35:49.770
R. David (he/him): Sure.

404
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:55.520
R. Rachel: What does that look like? I'm still gonna read Bamid Bar Rabbah.

405
00:35:55.720 --> 00:35:59.359
R. David (he/him): Hold on, I think I saw Cheryl's hand. Are you… was that from now or from before?

406
00:36:01.100 --> 00:36:05.840
Sherrill Cropper: From before, asking about two of the people that are listed.

407
00:36:06.040 --> 00:36:09.450
Sherrill Cropper: I don't remember if you want to go up for a second.

408
00:36:09.450 --> 00:36:11.100
R. David (he/him): Well, of course…

409
00:36:11.540 --> 00:36:13.890
R. Rachel: Of course. Nafiram, maybe?

410
00:36:15.470 --> 00:36:17.910
Sherrill Cropper: the ton… Yeah, and…

411
00:36:17.910 --> 00:36:18.319
R. Rachel: a little.

412
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.250
R. David (he/him): In the obby route.

413
00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:23.840
Sherrill Cropper: Yeah, it's 1013 also is, Moshe's Scent.

414
00:36:24.030 --> 00:36:25.739
Sherrill Cropper: Sons of Ilyav.

415
00:36:26.370 --> 00:36:26.850
Sherrill Cropper: And…

416
00:36:26.850 --> 00:36:28.700
R. David (he/him): own son of pellets.

417
00:36:30.090 --> 00:36:32.309
Sherrill Cropper: They're like, no.

418
00:36:32.310 --> 00:36:39.359
R. David (he/him): And even more, look, look at, look at again. Moses, I'm on here over here in the middle. Moses sent for the Tananaviram.

419
00:36:39.830 --> 00:36:46.900
R. David (he/him): And they said, we, you know, Moses had called them, and they said, no, we will not ascend to you.

420
00:36:47.560 --> 00:36:54.310
R. David (he/him): Not, not, we will not come. We will not ascend, O ye high and mighty Moses.

421
00:36:54.810 --> 00:36:56.870
Sherrill Cropper: And that you lured it over us.

422
00:36:58.130 --> 00:37:00.769
Sherrill Cropper: You know, you brought us here and we're gonna die here.

423
00:37:01.710 --> 00:37:05.659
R. David (he/him): And what was this, land flowing with milk and honey?

424
00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:09.959
R. David (he/him): Was that Egypt? Haven't we been through this?

425
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:16.570
Sherrill Cropper: land, yes, from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert. It's… it's very bizarre.

426
00:37:16.570 --> 00:37:23.030
R. David (he/him): And who… and who did this? The people did it. The people. And so now they're blaming Moses

427
00:37:23.250 --> 00:37:27.140
R. David (he/him): For there, the people's own stuff.

428
00:37:27.870 --> 00:37:39.190
R. Rachel: By the way, there is Midrush that places Dattan and Aviram in various roles in the pre-exodus story.

429
00:37:40.540 --> 00:37:43.859
R. David (he/him): Everyone remember? Yup. Everyone remember the movie?

430
00:37:44.610 --> 00:37:45.830
R. Rachel: Were they in the movie?

431
00:37:46.720 --> 00:37:49.340
R. David (he/him): Dathan! Dathan!

432
00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:49.960
R. Rachel: odd.

433
00:37:50.100 --> 00:37:52.620
R. David (he/him): Remember the, the.

434
00:37:52.850 --> 00:37:54.599
R. Rachel: Nathan is not a name.

435
00:37:54.600 --> 00:37:55.550
R. David (he/him): Datan.

436
00:37:55.550 --> 00:37:57.320
R. Rachel: I know, I'm just saying they did it.

437
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:03.710
R. David (he/him): I know. Okay, fine. The Dathan Datan in the movie…

438
00:38:03.710 --> 00:38:04.690
Sherrill Cropper: Robinson?

439
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:06.370
R. David (he/him): Absolutely!

440
00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:10.009
R. David (he/him): Where does that Midrash come from? Edward G. Robinson.

441
00:38:10.010 --> 00:38:12.190
Sherrill Cropper: Jewish, right? He was…

442
00:38:15.170 --> 00:38:18.140
R. David (he/him): But in the movie, The Ten Commandments.

443
00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:26.569
R. David (he/him): Joshua had a girl, And Dathan…

444
00:38:27.080 --> 00:38:29.640
R. David (he/him): Was set up as the overseer.

445
00:38:30.620 --> 00:38:37.250
R. David (he/him): So here's Dathan using his people's subjugation for his own assent.

446
00:38:37.910 --> 00:38:42.760
R. David (he/him): Where does that Midrash come from? Three guesses, the first two don't count.

447
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.510
R. Rachel: So Midrash has these guys as not exactly great guys.

448
00:38:52.640 --> 00:38:54.940
R. Rachel: Bomied Bar Rabba, who wants to read?

449
00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:56.960
Sherrill Cropper: I'm sorry.

450
00:38:57.540 --> 00:39:07.939
Sherrill Cropper: Moshe then tells God don't take their offerings. Like, who is Moshe even to suggest to God?

451
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:11.520
Sherrill Cropper: It's… the whole…

452
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:12.630
R. David (he/him): The whole thing.

453
00:39:12.630 --> 00:39:17.329
Sherrill Cropper: like, Moshe maybe is being who they are.

454
00:39:17.950 --> 00:39:19.420
Sherrill Cropper: say he is.

455
00:39:19.420 --> 00:39:21.850
R. Rachel: So let's… let's dig into the texts.

456
00:39:22.390 --> 00:39:23.240
R. David (he/him): Yeah.

457
00:39:23.240 --> 00:39:25.170
Sherrill Cropper: Sorry, thank you for letting me just…

458
00:39:25.170 --> 00:39:31.689
R. David (he/him): No, no, no! You know, sometimes… sometimes if you're railing people long enough, they become what you're railing.

459
00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:34.190
Sherrill Cropper: Hmm.

460
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:35.700
R. David (he/him): -Oh.

461
00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:38.500
R. David (he/him): Amidbaraba, who wants it?

462
00:39:46.020 --> 00:39:47.450
R. David (he/him): Deanna, would you please?

463
00:39:48.350 --> 00:39:49.120
Diana Rico: Sure.

464
00:39:50.150 --> 00:40:07.279
Diana Rico: They congregated against Moshe. Rabbi Levi said, Korach gathered his congregation and said to Moshe and Aharon, You amplified our burdens more than Egyptian subjugation. It was better for us under Egypt than under you.

465
00:40:07.370 --> 00:40:08.276
R. David (he/him): Dun dun!

466
00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:11.350
R. Rachel: Heck of a claim.

467
00:40:11.350 --> 00:40:15.940
Diana Rico: They went to stone Moshe, thus Moshe heard and fell on his face.

468
00:40:16.130 --> 00:40:25.550
Diana Rico: Moshe then said to them, I do not seek sovereignty, nor does my brother Aharon seek the high priesthood, as in Numbers 1611.

469
00:40:26.200 --> 00:40:41.370
Diana Rico: Who is Aharon that you should rail against him? Moshe said to God, Master of the universe, did you not command me, you, draw near Aharon your brother and his sons with him, and now they stand against us to kill us.

470
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:43.809
R. David (he/him): So here's Iris's point.

471
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R. David (he/him): The crowd is going to exaggerate all the things, Strawman, right?

472
00:40:52.810 --> 00:40:58.890
R. David (he/him): And then Moses is gonna say, excuse me, I didn't choose this. Hey, God, help me out here.

473
00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:08.639
R. Rachel: You asked me to serve God, and now they're standing up with rocks to throw them at me and kill me. What gives?

474
00:41:10.580 --> 00:41:11.849
R. Rachel: Ain't leadership grand.

475
00:41:14.870 --> 00:41:19.279
R. David (he/him): So how do we fix it before we even get to the rest of it? If leadership is so awesome.

476
00:41:20.340 --> 00:41:21.529
R. David (he/him): How do we fix it?

477
00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:26.430
Sherrill Cropper: Why are we supposed to fix it?

478
00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:28.100
R. David (he/him): Oh, great.

479
00:41:28.310 --> 00:41:28.970
R. David (he/him): Or as…

480
00:41:28.970 --> 00:41:31.899
R. Rachel: So, this sounds like healthy community dynamics.

481
00:41:33.560 --> 00:41:34.200
R. Rachel: Question mark?

482
00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:36.030
Sherrill Cropper: Oh, okay, my…

483
00:41:37.070 --> 00:41:41.179
R. David (he/him): A little differently. Oh, it's Parshat Korach! Oh, goody.

484
00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:46.060
R. David (he/him): How do we fix it?

485
00:41:52.410 --> 00:41:53.130
Joan Green: Do you step.

486
00:41:53.130 --> 00:41:53.900
R. David (he/him): Pardon me.

487
00:41:53.900 --> 00:41:55.910
Joan Green: He offered to somebody else?

488
00:41:58.220 --> 00:41:59.790
R. David (he/him): Take it, please!

489
00:41:59.790 --> 00:42:00.510
R. Rachel: Right.

490
00:42:00.510 --> 00:42:02.670
R. David (he/him): Yeah, but then it's just gonna repeat, right?

491
00:42:03.220 --> 00:42:07.069
Joan Green: Well, then they know it's not you, it's the… it's the…

492
00:42:07.070 --> 00:42:11.890
R. Rachel: Do they, though? Or do they then just rail at the next guy? If it… if…

493
00:42:11.890 --> 00:42:12.420
R. David (he/him): For gal.

494
00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:14.570
R. Rachel: The community does is rail at people.

495
00:42:15.540 --> 00:42:20.540
R. Rachel: Then just stepping out of the job and letting somebody else be railed at doesn't fix the…

496
00:42:21.780 --> 00:42:22.460
R. David (he/him): Huh.

497
00:42:22.570 --> 00:42:23.410
R. David (he/him): Huh.

498
00:42:23.810 --> 00:42:24.260
Marcia's iPad: What?

499
00:42:24.670 --> 00:42:26.119
R. Rachel: Sorry, Mercy's hand.

500
00:42:27.300 --> 00:42:28.030
R. Rachel: No, nothing against…

501
00:42:28.030 --> 00:42:30.460
Marcia's iPad: And you gotta look at the structure.

502
00:42:30.670 --> 00:42:34.310
Marcia's iPad: By which the leadership is vetted.

503
00:42:34.830 --> 00:42:43.389
Marcia's iPad: And then, in this case, you're gonna argue with God about… Who's being chosen.

504
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:49.330
Marcia's iPad: But then, once it gets down… On the ground, literally.

505
00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:57.000
Marcia's iPad: You have to look at the structures for keeping people in place.

506
00:42:57.140 --> 00:43:01.900
Marcia's iPad: And how you do that is through checks and balances.

507
00:43:02.030 --> 00:43:04.529
Marcia's iPad: But then, when that falls apart.

508
00:43:05.590 --> 00:43:10.270
Marcia's iPad: You, you know, you just have… Leadership run amok.

509
00:43:10.450 --> 00:43:16.710
Marcia's iPad: So, it's… I think it's a… a constant, process.

510
00:43:16.970 --> 00:43:21.210
Marcia's iPad: And it has to reflect It's context.

511
00:43:21.660 --> 00:43:26.810
Marcia's iPad: Because… The ideas of who would be a good leader.

512
00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:33.210
Marcia's iPad: change based… it's like in The Godfather, when Sonny says.

513
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:37.299
Marcia's iPad: Oh, look, Pop had… had, had, had,

514
00:43:37.620 --> 00:43:43.570
Marcia's iPad: whoever was the wartime consigliarian, and I got you. Tom Hagen.

515
00:43:44.030 --> 00:43:48.970
Marcia's iPad: And so you need leaders that are able to pivot.

516
00:43:49.610 --> 00:43:54.470
Marcia's iPad: And maybe people are good at one thing, but they're not good at another.

517
00:43:54.710 --> 00:43:57.249
Marcia's iPad: So, we need… we need wisdom.

518
00:43:57.430 --> 00:44:03.810
Marcia's iPad: And, go find that. When you do, give us a call, so we can…

519
00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:12.810
R. David (he/him): Right. So, you've already, you know, to put it slightly differently, if I'm hearing you correctly, and I think not only you.

520
00:44:13.330 --> 00:44:15.150
R. David (he/him): This isn't a garden club.

521
00:44:15.500 --> 00:44:21.649
R. David (he/him): And even garden clubs should be nice. But this is about spiritual and character education.

522
00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:29.360
R. David (he/him): Without that, any structure can seem vertical and hierarchical, and there can be all sorts of feels about that.

523
00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:34.310
R. David (he/him): All the hands. Iris, Ellen, Ruth, Meredith, and then we're gonna do some more Midrash.

524
00:44:37.270 --> 00:44:53.180
Ellen Ruth Topol: I have, an interesting teaching last weekend on the plagues, and the question arose, why did God keep on hardening Pharaoh's heart?

525
00:44:53.930 --> 00:44:54.540
R. David (he/him): Hmm.

526
00:44:56.110 --> 00:45:05.010
Ellen Ruth Topol: And the answer that the teacher gave was to strengthen Moses.

527
00:45:07.240 --> 00:45:07.890
R. David (he/him): B.

528
00:45:08.410 --> 00:45:23.070
Ellen Ruth Topol: And in that regard… I'm sorry, my hearing is so bad, I can't pronounce things, but… Challenging him.

529
00:45:23.510 --> 00:45:28.929
Ellen Ruth Topol: is very similar to God strengthening

530
00:45:29.610 --> 00:45:34.359
Ellen Ruth Topol: And hardening, Pharaoh's heart.

531
00:45:35.370 --> 00:45:49.810
Ellen Ruth Topol: In that way, Moses really deepens his understanding of leadership, what that is, by seeing the opposite of what.

532
00:45:50.500 --> 00:45:52.010
Ellen Ruth Topol: is presented.

533
00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:52.870
R. David (he/him): Yeah.

534
00:45:52.990 --> 00:45:58.100
R. David (he/him): Thank you for that. Iris and then Meredith, or Meredith and then Iris, I forget.

535
00:45:58.820 --> 00:45:59.720
Iris Barten: Okay.

536
00:46:00.130 --> 00:46:02.549
Iris Barten: So, I think this is related to what

537
00:46:02.730 --> 00:46:08.380
Iris Barten: Rabbi Rachel and Rabbi David, you were saying recently, so I see the leadership

538
00:46:08.660 --> 00:46:26.690
Iris Barten: The qualities, it's a way of being, and yes, we have structure and all of that, and the structure defines roles and relationships, and if we're really living our values and living from our hearts, then it's a different way of being and a connection.

539
00:46:26.850 --> 00:46:31.529
Iris Barten: and a potential for connection without knowing how a relationship.

540
00:46:32.090 --> 00:46:42.910
Iris Barten: And, I guess two more quick things. Yes, I was learning what Rabbi Sack said about the Parsha, and…

541
00:46:43.120 --> 00:46:46.329
Iris Barten: He said that there are 3 qualities that

542
00:46:46.600 --> 00:46:57.730
Iris Barten: are not good for… for us or for a community. One is, jealousy, of course, and then a thirst for honor, which.

543
00:46:58.430 --> 00:47:06.570
Iris Barten: And the last was lust. So those three… the way those three come together, and I, you know, he was saying that's what.

544
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:10.330
Marcia's iPad: What's the second one? What did you say the second one is?

545
00:47:11.240 --> 00:47:18.120
Iris Barten: A lust for honor, and then… I'm sorry, seek for honor, and then lust was the third.

546
00:47:18.770 --> 00:47:22.590
Iris Barten: So, jealousy, a thirst for honor, and…

547
00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:27.709
Iris Barten: And the last thing I wanted to say right now,

548
00:47:28.070 --> 00:47:36.540
Iris Barten: I don't know who said this, if it… I think it was Rabbi Sach, that the final test of power is if it's life-affirming.

549
00:47:37.340 --> 00:47:38.020
R. David (he/him): Yes.

550
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:40.270
R. David (he/him): Yes.

551
00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:41.250
Iris Barten: Yeah.

552
00:47:41.250 --> 00:47:42.580
R. David (he/him): Yes. Yes.

553
00:47:43.310 --> 00:47:48.750
R. David (he/him): Yes. Thankfully, this Parsha is not about anything else going on in the world.

554
00:47:51.500 --> 00:47:52.220
Iris Barten: Right.

555
00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:56.640
R. David (he/him): Meredith, and then we're gonna do Midrush.

556
00:47:57.270 --> 00:47:57.950
Iris Barten: Okay.

557
00:47:58.150 --> 00:48:03.199
Meredith (she/her): The thing is, and maybe I'm really simplifying this, but…

558
00:48:03.810 --> 00:48:08.759
Meredith (she/her): what… you know, this Moshe was chosen to be the leader.

559
00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:12.790
Meredith (she/her): And there was, like, no job description. There was no…

560
00:48:12.790 --> 00:48:13.390
R. David (he/him): won it!

561
00:48:13.700 --> 00:48:21.989
Meredith (she/her): I know, but I'm just saying there was no, like, what makes this guy qualified? You know? And so…

562
00:48:22.370 --> 00:48:33.739
Meredith (she/her): people want a crack at it, you know, and they're like, okay, well, maybe I could do a better job, or… you know what I'm saying? So there was no criteria that

563
00:48:34.080 --> 00:48:46.769
Meredith (she/her): specify for the selection process of Moshe as the leader of the people, and so these folks are like, what makes him… let's do it.

564
00:48:47.140 --> 00:48:54.990
Meredith (she/her): So, you know, it's, it's obviously not a democracy. So, yeah.

565
00:48:56.650 --> 00:49:03.740
Meredith (she/her): Right? I mean, there was no job description, no qualify, you know. Right. You know, Yod-He Vave said, hey, you're it.

566
00:49:04.590 --> 00:49:10.939
Meredith (she/her): And he said, no thanks. And that's what I said, when he fell to the ground, he's like, give me a break.

567
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:21.360
Meredith (she/her): Like, I didn't want this job in the first place, and now you're doing this, I just can't take it. I just can't… it's, you know, despair.

568
00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:23.470
R. David (he/him): Horah!

569
00:49:23.570 --> 00:49:24.690
R. David (he/him): Oh, goody.

570
00:49:26.030 --> 00:49:28.340
R. Rachel: Right, we have got some goodies.

571
00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:29.830
R. Rachel: for us.

572
00:49:30.100 --> 00:49:32.349
R. David (he/him): Yeah, let's do some shifting. Let's start.

573
00:49:34.790 --> 00:49:36.710
R. David (he/him): Who wants to read this Midrash?

574
00:49:36.950 --> 00:49:39.770
R. David (he/him): How did Korach do the thing that he did?

575
00:49:41.020 --> 00:49:42.209
Meredith (she/her): Reading. I will.

576
00:49:42.460 --> 00:49:44.489
Meredith (she/her): What did Korach do?

577
00:49:45.240 --> 00:49:54.120
Meredith (she/her): He gathered the congregation and began to tell tales. He said to them, a widow in my neighborhood had two orphan girls.

578
00:49:54.230 --> 00:50:13.250
Meredith (she/her): She had a field for farming and plowed. Moshe said, do not plow with ox and donkey together. She sowed the field, he said, do not sow mixtures of seeds. She went to harvest. He said, leave the field edges and gleanings for the poor.

579
00:50:13.530 --> 00:50:16.980
Meredith (she/her): and tithe to the Kohane and Levite.

580
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:25.580
Meredith (she/her): She gave it all to him. She sold her field and bought two sheep to clothe her children in their fleece.

581
00:50:25.750 --> 00:50:28.559
Meredith (she/her): And profit by their lambs and milk.

582
00:50:28.740 --> 00:50:34.159
Meredith (she/her): They gave birth. Aron came and said, Give me the firstborns.

583
00:50:34.720 --> 00:50:39.649
Meredith (she/her): As in, each firstborn are for Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh.

584
00:50:39.850 --> 00:50:42.980
Meredith (she/her): She gave him the lambs. She sheared the sheep.

585
00:50:43.150 --> 00:50:51.359
Meredith (she/her): Arone came and said, Give me the first fleece, for God said, give the first fleece to Him.

586
00:50:51.680 --> 00:51:02.939
Meredith (she/her): She stood crying with her two daughters. That is what they did to this desperate woman. This is what they do, and they pin it all on God.

587
00:51:04.170 --> 00:51:06.150
R. David (he/him): Ta-da!

588
00:51:06.310 --> 00:51:09.039
R. Rachel: It's actually a pretty powerful argument!

589
00:51:11.040 --> 00:51:13.999
R. Rachel: Which is part of what makes this so interesting.

590
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:18.210
R. David (he/him): What's the argument that you see, Rabbi Rachel?

591
00:51:20.900 --> 00:51:28.979
R. Rachel: When our tradition is followed with Precision, but without care.

592
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.560
R. Rachel: Damage can be done.

593
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:39.499
R. Rachel: Everything they were telling this woman to do was… Halachically correct, if you will.

594
00:51:40.370 --> 00:51:45.010
R. Rachel: But any rabbi worth their salt would find a way to…

595
00:51:47.300 --> 00:51:50.349
R. Rachel: Make it possible for this woman to thrive.

596
00:51:50.700 --> 00:52:00.839
R. Rachel: This is what happens when you're medocque deck, when you're meticulous about The law without any heart.

597
00:52:01.370 --> 00:52:04.290
R. David (he/him): Is… but is that what Moses has done yet?

598
00:52:05.740 --> 00:52:08.500
R. Rachel: Well, it's certainly the story Korach is telling.

599
00:52:08.750 --> 00:52:10.870
R. David (he/him): That's the story Parach is telling.

600
00:52:12.080 --> 00:52:14.400
R. Rachel: But it's gonna resonate with people.

601
00:52:14.710 --> 00:52:22.710
R. Rachel: Because we can all imagine what it looks like when Rules are exploited.

602
00:52:23.110 --> 00:52:24.270
R. Rachel: without heart?

603
00:52:24.950 --> 00:52:28.269
R. Rachel: When rules are exploitative without heart.

604
00:52:28.710 --> 00:52:33.669
R. David (he/him): Or important rules are miscast as exploitative.

605
00:52:35.460 --> 00:52:37.989
R. David (he/him): They just want to raise your taxes.

606
00:52:40.770 --> 00:52:42.420
R. David (he/him): Yeah, that got a few people's attention.

607
00:52:42.420 --> 00:52:43.960
R. Rachel: The rent is too damn high.

608
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:49.100
R. David (he/him): The rent is too damn high. Stop telling me what to do, you're not the boss of me.

609
00:52:52.380 --> 00:52:58.500
R. David (he/him): or whatever the imagined parade of Horrables is. Is it an exaggeration?

610
00:52:58.750 --> 00:52:59.350
R. David (he/him): I think…

611
00:52:59.350 --> 00:52:59.950
R. Rachel: Absolutely.

612
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:01.190
R. David (he/him): Well, no.

613
00:53:01.580 --> 00:53:07.290
R. Rachel: Also, it… what I'm… I think what I'm saying is this… this resonates now.

614
00:53:07.610 --> 00:53:08.280
R. David (he/him): the work.

615
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:13.220
R. Rachel: Thousands of years later, which tells me that this is something…

616
00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:14.340
R. David (he/him): It's tough.

617
00:53:14.340 --> 00:53:17.690
R. Rachel: fundamental human struggle. This is not a new problem.

618
00:53:18.090 --> 00:53:25.199
R. David (he/him): It's not a new problem. And therefore, one of the teachings I take from this is it's all well and good to have facts.

619
00:53:25.300 --> 00:53:28.399
R. David (he/him): Never mind that people can have different facts.

620
00:53:28.870 --> 00:53:32.420
R. David (he/him): But I think it was James who wrote, Intention Matters.

621
00:53:34.620 --> 00:53:46.639
R. David (he/him): If your purpose is to villainize someone, you're gonna villainize someone. But that's the purpose here. So, this Midrash is saying, Korov came along and perverted spirituality

622
00:53:47.680 --> 00:53:48.590
R. David (he/him): Using…

623
00:53:48.590 --> 00:53:50.200
R. Rachel: And to tell tales.

624
00:53:50.200 --> 00:53:54.840
R. David (he/him): Again, to tell tales. Even true things can be lashon Hara.

625
00:53:55.310 --> 00:53:56.260
R. David (he/him): -Oh.

626
00:53:57.150 --> 00:53:58.160
R. David (he/him): -Oh.

627
00:53:58.640 --> 00:54:01.270
R. David (he/him): Even true things can be lashon Harrah.

628
00:54:01.580 --> 00:54:03.410
R. David (he/him): What's the problem with Quora?

629
00:54:04.420 --> 00:54:08.269
R. Rachel: Someone want to read Mira Wasserman? Contemporary commentator.

630
00:54:08.490 --> 00:54:12.320
R. David (he/him): Notice, we're gonna start adding who's missing. Who's been missing all this time?

631
00:54:14.680 --> 00:54:15.530
R. Rachel: Women!

632
00:54:16.140 --> 00:54:17.270
R. Rachel: Among others.

633
00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:22.309
R. Rachel: Here's a female voice, who would like to read?

634
00:54:26.190 --> 00:54:28.290
David Green: I think I'll be perfect for it.

635
00:54:28.290 --> 00:54:29.969
R. Rachel: Thank you, David. God bless.

636
00:54:29.970 --> 00:54:34.210
David Green: The problem with Korach is that his words sound so righteous.

637
00:54:34.580 --> 00:54:41.759
David Green: Especially in the midst of our current protests against racism and domination, His words of protest resonate.

638
00:54:41.930 --> 00:54:47.709
David Green: We, too, consider the whole community holy. We, too, challenge hierarchy.

639
00:54:48.580 --> 00:54:56.209
David Green: Koraf, as imagined by the Midrash, voices the very logic that is encapsulated in the words, all lives matter.

640
00:54:56.560 --> 00:55:01.349
David Green: He evades specific demands with an appeal to an abstract all.

641
00:55:01.850 --> 00:55:08.830
David Green: He and his followers might speak on behalf of all of the community, but it is their own privileged positions.

642
00:55:08.980 --> 00:55:10.839
David Green: That are their real concern?

643
00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:24.549
David Green: The Midrash highlights the duplicity of invoking the all as a weapon against the particular demands of righteousness. How prescient of the Midrash to recognize the danger of appealing to universals

644
00:55:24.720 --> 00:55:28.400
David Green: When specific breaches of justice are at stake.

645
00:55:30.500 --> 00:55:37.040
R. Rachel: So notice that Korach comes in saying, we're all holy, But he doesn't…

646
00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:38.060
R. David (he/him): Or follow me.

647
00:55:38.060 --> 00:55:43.110
R. Rachel: Yes, right? He doesn't seem to be saying, we're all holy, and therefore we should all…

648
00:55:44.080 --> 00:55:49.630
R. Rachel: Dot, dot dot, finish the sentence. It's, we are all holy, and also, why aren't I in charge?

649
00:55:54.250 --> 00:55:57.180
R. Rachel: At least that's how Mira Wasserman is understanding it.

650
00:55:58.450 --> 00:56:00.030
R. Rachel: And she is not alone.

651
00:56:03.750 --> 00:56:11.609
R. Rachel: The Chufetz Chaim is… Deeply classical, traditional…

652
00:56:11.730 --> 00:56:17.750
R. Rachel: Old school. There is nothing radical about this guy anywhere in his bones.

653
00:56:18.350 --> 00:56:31.439
R. Rachel: And he comes along and says, look, if one nurtures a quarrel in their speaking, they transgress. Being quarrelsome is a transgression. As in, one shall not be as Korach and his congregation.

654
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:36.109
R. Rachel: Which is an exhortation against nurturing a machloket.

655
00:56:36.610 --> 00:56:45.970
R. Rachel: Machloket does not exactly translate, but it's something like… Butting heads?

656
00:56:46.940 --> 00:56:49.820
R. Rachel: Disagreeableness argument?

657
00:56:49.820 --> 00:56:57.149
R. David (he/him): Yeah, it comes from the word chilek, which is portion. So a machloket is to set a portion against a portion. It's a dispute.

658
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.799
R. David (he/him): And it's okay to have a mock locit.

659
00:57:02.470 --> 00:57:04.609
R. Rachel: You know, it's okay to have a good machete at.

660
00:57:04.610 --> 00:57:05.090
R. David (he/him): Right.

661
00:57:05.090 --> 00:57:05.860
R. Rachel: Look at.

662
00:57:05.860 --> 00:57:10.209
R. David (he/him): So, what's the difference between a machlochet and, that is, for the sake of heaven?

663
00:57:10.550 --> 00:57:13.069
R. David (he/him): And a machlochet, that is not for the sake of heaven.

664
00:57:14.560 --> 00:57:17.690
R. David (he/him): Can there even be a Makluk at Lashem Shamai for the sake of heaven?

665
00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:22.609
R. Rachel: Well, Amy Eilberg seems to think so.

666
00:57:22.730 --> 00:57:25.100
R. David (he/him): Cheryl just exploded in her seat.

667
00:57:26.900 --> 00:57:32.900
Sherrill Cropper: I mean, the joke is… to choose three opinions. I… I…

668
00:57:33.560 --> 00:57:34.350
R. David (he/him): No, it's not!

669
00:57:35.200 --> 00:57:36.889
R. Rachel: We have to be able to disagree!

670
00:57:38.670 --> 00:57:40.339
R. Rachel: So, why… read us this one?

671
00:57:42.610 --> 00:57:48.859
Sherrill Cropper: At first glance, Korach and his allies seem to have a reasonable complaint.

672
00:57:48.930 --> 00:58:05.700
Sherrill Cropper: If everyone in the community is holy, with God in their midst, by what right has Moses stepped in as the leader of the people? In contemporary context, this seems to be a call for democratic rule.

673
00:58:05.780 --> 00:58:10.550
Sherrill Cropper: Accusing Moses of presumptuous autocratic rule over the people.

674
00:58:12.380 --> 00:58:13.830
Sherrill Cropper: You want me to continue?

675
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:16.450
R. David (he/him): Or you can tag someone else.

676
00:58:17.050 --> 00:58:18.759
Sherrill Cropper: I tag Iris.

677
00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:29.029
Iris Barten: Thank you. The classical commentaries regard Koach as an egotist, a person driven by pride and ambition.

678
00:58:29.070 --> 00:58:47.879
Iris Barten: In fact, Korath's challenge to Moses is immortalized in rabbinic literature as the exemplar of machlochet, Shaloh, Lashem, Shemayim, disagreement not for the sake of heaven, that is, unholy and dysfunctional argument.

679
00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:52.280
Iris Barten: Oh.

680
00:58:52.740 --> 00:58:59.649
Iris Barten: I can't actually see everyone, but I will tag Meredith.

681
00:59:00.430 --> 00:59:01.809
Iris Barten: You think you're still here?

682
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:04.610
Iris Barten: Nope.

683
00:59:06.330 --> 00:59:06.940
Meredith (she/her): Okay.

684
00:59:07.870 --> 00:59:10.239
Meredith (she/her): Where are we?

685
00:59:10.560 --> 00:59:11.460
Meredith (she/her): Classical?

686
00:59:12.430 --> 00:59:13.770
Meredith (she/her): Oh, that is why.

687
00:59:14.120 --> 00:59:28.150
Meredith (she/her): That is why Korov and his allies are punished so spectacularly, with the ground literally opening up beneath them and swallowing them up.

688
00:59:28.330 --> 00:59:32.040
Meredith (she/her): They are punished publicly and dramatically.

689
00:59:32.220 --> 00:59:41.639
Meredith (she/her): And remembered as archetypes of envy and egotism, and of prioritizing personal needs over the common good.

690
00:59:51.690 --> 00:59:53.239
R. David (he/him): Marci, can you read?

691
01:00:00.050 --> 01:00:05.920
Marcia's iPad: I have spent many years teaching Jewish communities how to practice the art of

692
01:00:11.070 --> 01:00:17.230
Marcia's iPad: Or, disagreements conducted with mutual respect, genuine curiosity.

693
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:23.350
Marcia's iPad: Caring for the relationship with the other side, and attending to the greater good.

694
01:00:23.670 --> 01:00:30.500
Marcia's iPad: The sages teach that the practice of sacred disagreement requires an intention.

695
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:38.500
Marcia's iPad: To seek truth, rather than victory or a personalized aggrandizement. Whoa.

696
01:00:38.620 --> 01:00:41.009
Marcia's iPad: Willingness to be persuaded.

697
01:00:42.090 --> 01:00:49.779
Marcia's iPad: Wow. Recognition that… Contrasting ideas can both be true.

698
01:00:50.140 --> 01:00:55.799
Marcia's iPad: An attitude of humility and kindness, And a capacity to feel

699
01:00:56.150 --> 01:01:00.699
Marcia's iPad: Humanly connected to the other party, in the discussion.

700
01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:02.910
Marcia's iPad: Well, the concept!

701
01:01:02.910 --> 01:01:03.540
R. David (he/him): Today.

702
01:01:03.540 --> 01:01:05.899
Marcia's iPad: Oh, yes, it happens all the time.

703
01:01:06.260 --> 01:01:13.380
R. Rachel: But this is what our tradition says a dispute for the sake of heaven asks of us.

704
01:01:13.380 --> 01:01:14.529
Marcia's iPad: That's awesome.

705
01:01:14.830 --> 01:01:21.100
R. Rachel: We have to be seeking truth rather than just being right or feeding our ego.

706
01:01:22.260 --> 01:01:24.740
R. Rachel: We have to be open to persuasion.

707
01:01:25.250 --> 01:01:29.740
R. Rachel: We have to recognize that you're right, and you're right.

708
01:01:30.010 --> 01:01:31.670
R. David (he/him): How can you both be right?

709
01:01:32.040 --> 01:01:33.380
R. Rachel: You're also right!

710
01:01:35.140 --> 01:01:37.679
R. Rachel: That's, that's from… that's from Fiddler on the Roof.

711
01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:40.640
R. Rachel: Sets is not new!

712
01:01:41.630 --> 01:01:43.540
R. David (he/him): By the way, we have not rehearsed this.

713
01:01:44.570 --> 01:01:45.560
R. Rachel: We never do.

714
01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:51.340
R. Rachel: And you have to be able to feel connected to the other party, even though you disagree.

715
01:01:54.620 --> 01:01:58.070
R. David (he/him): This is what machuwak at Lashem Shamayim is.

716
01:01:58.570 --> 01:02:07.940
R. David (he/him): Dispute for the sake of heaven, not dispute for the sake of winning, not dispute for the sake of taking someone down, not dispute for the purpose of…

717
01:02:08.190 --> 01:02:10.220
R. David (he/him): projecting power.

718
01:02:11.170 --> 01:02:12.819
R. David (he/him): Or having a tantrum.

719
01:02:14.090 --> 01:02:18.020
R. David (he/him): These are spiritual tools.

720
01:02:19.680 --> 01:02:21.500
R. David (he/him): Because they ask of us.

721
01:02:22.060 --> 01:02:23.550
R. David (he/him): Self-awareness.

722
01:02:25.150 --> 01:02:27.010
R. David (he/him): A lot of self-awareness.

723
01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:31.470
R. David (he/him): Why is all of this coming up now?

724
01:02:35.930 --> 01:02:37.940
Marcia's iPad: Bad things are about to happen.

725
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:39.140
R. David (he/him): -Oh.

726
01:02:40.110 --> 01:02:44.180
R. David (he/him): Da duh! Why is this coming up NOW?

727
01:02:44.570 --> 01:02:45.189
R. Rachel: What's the name?

728
01:02:45.190 --> 01:02:45.829
R. David (he/him): To preserve it.

729
01:02:45.830 --> 01:02:46.610
R. Rachel: sense of control.

730
01:02:46.610 --> 01:02:48.030
R. David (he/him): Community.

731
01:02:48.030 --> 01:02:56.239
Marcia's iPad: Because after the destruction of the temple, preserving the community is going to become the main concern of the rabbis.

732
01:02:56.240 --> 01:03:01.909
R. Rachel: And what's the next holiday in our holiday cycle other than Shabbos?

733
01:03:02.020 --> 01:03:03.930
R. Rachel: Tisha Butov.

734
01:03:03.930 --> 01:03:04.490
Marcia's iPad: Yep.

735
01:03:04.780 --> 01:03:06.230
R. Rachel: Destruction Day!

736
01:03:07.420 --> 01:03:07.990
R. David (he/him): Which…

737
01:03:07.990 --> 01:03:15.810
R. Rachel: This time of year, we are always approaching that… Ultimate place of descent?

738
01:03:16.950 --> 01:03:23.640
R. Rachel: When we get this descent, Within the community, dissent with an I and two S's.

739
01:03:26.390 --> 01:03:28.049
R. David (he/him): Oh, you made a pun.

740
01:03:28.050 --> 01:03:29.010
R. Rachel: Huh.

741
01:03:29.010 --> 01:03:33.549
R. David (he/him): This, though, it doesn't always work out this way, but this year it does.

742
01:03:33.820 --> 01:03:37.579
R. David (he/him): Tomorrow is in the Northern Hemisphere.

743
01:03:38.230 --> 01:03:39.570
R. Rachel: The summer solstice.

744
01:03:39.570 --> 01:03:40.070
Iris Barten: One sec.

745
01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:46.030
R. David (he/him): Which means… that that's peak light. Yay. Which also means what?

746
01:03:48.270 --> 01:03:49.870
R. Rachel: 3 months to Yom Kippur?

747
01:03:51.910 --> 01:03:52.620
R. David (he/him): Yeah.

748
01:03:52.890 --> 01:03:55.760
R. Rachel: Yom Kippur, which is on the autumn equinox this year?

749
01:03:56.120 --> 01:03:56.880
R. David (he/him): Yup.

750
01:03:58.130 --> 01:03:58.600
R. David (he/him): Yup.

751
01:03:58.600 --> 01:03:59.470
R. Rachel: Come help us.

752
01:03:59.620 --> 01:04:00.560
R. David (he/him): Yup, Meredith.

753
01:04:00.560 --> 01:04:01.700
R. Rachel: say that.

754
01:04:02.070 --> 01:04:06.630
R. David (he/him): Yeah, no, you did. That… we're gonna have a Machlog at Lola Shem Shabah. Kidding?

755
01:04:08.740 --> 01:04:09.570
R. Rachel: Meredith.

756
01:04:09.570 --> 01:04:12.449
R. David (he/him): And then we'll bring in the women, because they deserve to be here.

757
01:04:13.090 --> 01:04:18.229
Meredith (she/her): You know, that last piece, Rabbi, that we just read, this paragraph.

758
01:04:18.230 --> 01:04:18.990
R. Rachel: Oh. Yes.

759
01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:27.720
Meredith (she/her): Just… Amazing, because… whoa! Because it makes so much sense.

760
01:04:27.950 --> 01:04:31.639
Meredith (she/her): But it's like the same thing we need to be reminded.

761
01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:33.969
R. David (he/him): Over and over and over.

762
01:04:33.970 --> 01:04:42.189
Meredith (she/her): Again and again, that this is really the objective, is… is choosing connection.

763
01:04:42.330 --> 01:04:46.830
Meredith (she/her): Is choosing community. Is choosing love.

764
01:04:47.230 --> 01:04:53.989
Meredith (she/her): And… I just… You know, anyway, I won't go into it, but yes. That's it.

765
01:04:53.990 --> 01:04:56.000
R. David (he/him): But that's it, right? That's it.

766
01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:56.959
Meredith (she/her): That's it, that's it.

767
01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:00.010
R. David (he/him): This is the whole thing. This is the… this is… this is it.

768
01:05:00.230 --> 01:05:01.130
Marcia's iPad: Not the enemy…

769
01:05:01.130 --> 01:05:02.330
R. David (he/him): No, I did not.

770
01:05:02.610 --> 01:05:07.860
Marcia's iPad: Not the enemy within, it's the loyal… Opposition.

771
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:13.140
Marcia's iPad: You know? As opposed to demonizing somebody who doesn't agree.

772
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:13.980
R. David (he/him): Yup.

773
01:05:14.490 --> 01:05:26.739
R. David (he/him): because we have some profound stuff yet to come, James, is this comment a quick B core, or can it go until after?

774
01:05:28.640 --> 01:05:29.540
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Nevermind.

775
01:05:31.890 --> 01:05:32.750
R. David (he/him): Okay.

776
01:05:36.420 --> 01:05:39.629
R. David (he/him): Here it comes, everyone. Who hasn't been here?

777
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:54.819
R. David (he/him): Let's do the tagging thing. I tag… Corinne, you haven't had a chance to read.

778
01:06:00.220 --> 01:06:00.790
R. David (he/him): Corinne.

779
01:06:00.790 --> 01:06:03.489
Corinne: Where are we? Yeah, I'm here.

780
01:06:03.490 --> 01:06:05.170
R. David (he/him): Let's start from the top. Let's start from the top.

781
01:06:05.610 --> 01:06:09.059
Corinne: Yes, I'm gonna… just give me a sec, please.

782
01:06:09.220 --> 01:06:19.819
Corinne: Yes, so… They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them.

783
01:06:20.120 --> 01:06:23.880
Corinne: You have gone too far for all

784
01:06:24.110 --> 01:06:31.770
Corinne: The community are holy, all of them, and the eternal is in the midst. Why, then, do you raise?

785
01:06:32.120 --> 01:06:36.460
Corinne: that raised its selves above the eternal congregation.

786
01:06:37.940 --> 01:06:47.239
Corinne: I stand firm, inches from Moses, and watch as his face falls in response to the… to this… to my shouted.

787
01:06:47.490 --> 01:06:48.670
Corinne: Challenge.

788
01:06:48.820 --> 01:06:55.419
Corinne: Over Moses' shoulder, I can see Aaron shaking his head. Obviously.

789
01:06:55.580 --> 01:07:02.920
Corinne: Disappointed that I voiced my objection so strenuously, so loudly, so publicly.

790
01:07:04.130 --> 01:07:19.079
Corinne: Aaron's eyes cut to Moses, and I feel my frustration grow at this evidence that Aaron's first instinct will never be to listen, because he will always seek to protect Moses

791
01:07:19.270 --> 01:07:20.550
Corinne: Authority.

792
01:07:20.910 --> 01:07:26.389
Corinne: I'm not sure why I'm surprised by his reaction, but I am.

793
01:07:26.610 --> 01:07:30.719
R. David (he/him): Somebody else, maybe Rachel, and then you can tag someone?

794
01:07:31.850 --> 01:07:38.250
Rachel Rudansky: I have addressed them as the leaders of our people and reminded them that we are all children of Eve.

795
01:07:38.580 --> 01:07:54.460
Rachel Rudansky: And yet their response was the same as it always has been. Retreat, defend, dismiss. I watch as Aaron put Moshe's shoulder, offering his brother the reassurance that he will take care of this.

796
01:07:56.100 --> 01:07:56.670
Iris Barten: Hmm.

797
01:07:57.570 --> 01:07:58.540
R. David (he/him): Tag someone.

798
01:07:58.740 --> 01:08:03.890
Rachel Rudansky: Tag, okay, tagging, David.

799
01:08:05.930 --> 01:08:14.400
David Green: My face twists into a sneer at the sight. I am no longer able or willing to hide my dismay, my derision.

800
01:08:15.610 --> 01:08:23.630
David Green: In that moment, I am consumed by holy and righteous fire. How dare these men act as if the world was created for them alone?

801
01:08:23.899 --> 01:08:32.520
David Green: How dare they claim that they are the only ones that God cares for? How dare they act as if they alone are holy?

802
01:08:33.090 --> 01:08:38.899
David Green: How dare they pretend that when they cling to power, it is noble, but when others demand it.

803
01:08:39.020 --> 01:08:41.609
David Green: It is blasphemy. How dare they?

804
01:08:42.109 --> 01:08:45.060
David Green: I stand before them, before our people.

805
01:08:45.180 --> 01:08:47.730
David Green: And I burn, but I'm not consumed.

806
01:08:48.490 --> 01:08:56.480
R. David (he/him): But, korach is more right than he even knew, but…

807
01:09:00.160 --> 01:09:01.760
R. David (he/him): What are the fields in the room?

808
01:09:10.399 --> 01:09:23.689
Rachel Rudansky: Well, I don't see where Korach plays a voice here, but maybe I'm not seeing that, but I would like to make a statement. I've been reading Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant atheist.

809
01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:25.399
Rachel Rudansky: And…

810
01:09:26.749 --> 01:09:35.269
Rachel Rudansky: this just sings so much about what… how he feels about how people have taken over this god concept.

811
01:09:35.429 --> 01:09:40.409
Rachel Rudansky: And… He just speaks about it so beautifully,

812
01:09:40.559 --> 01:09:58.199
Rachel Rudansky: And I'm just very moved to see this here, and this Parsha, I think, really illustrates… really illustrates it. You know, how dare you call that this is God, and what you do is holy, and, you know, what about the rest of us who are also having a life experience here?

813
01:09:58.780 --> 01:09:59.720
R. David (he/him): We chop liver?

814
01:10:00.030 --> 01:10:04.069
Rachel Rudansky: Yeah, what are we… life and death experience in his case. He did die.

815
01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:06.769
Rachel Rudansky: answer. Okay, thank you.

816
01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:08.639
R. David (he/him): Thank you. Cheryl, Indiana.

817
01:10:13.240 --> 01:10:16.460
Sherrill Cropper: Just a… small little thing that I noted.

818
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:19.810
Sherrill Cropper: Which is, aaron.

819
01:10:20.470 --> 01:10:22.550
Sherrill Cropper: Pat's his brother's shoulder.

820
01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:41.889
Sherrill Cropper: like, to support him, so it feels a little bit like, way back in Exodus, where Moses is like, I'm not worthy of this, and Aaron steps in as the big brother, and, you know, maybe even speaks for him sometimes, because he's concerned about his speech impediment.

821
01:10:41.890 --> 01:10:43.289
R. David (he/him): I gotcha, kid.

822
01:10:43.290 --> 01:10:56.939
Sherrill Cropper: Yeah, yeah, it's… but Moses, by this point, has grown into his leadership in a very beautiful way, so it was interesting to me to see that this was almost putting him back in his earlier…

823
01:10:56.940 --> 01:10:57.790
R. David (he/him): Nope.

824
01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:01.610
R. David (he/him): Tune in next week when it all goes to crap.

825
01:11:03.220 --> 01:11:15.470
R. Rachel: And I want to say, I think our reactions to the interactions of Aaron and Moses may say a lot about who we are, where we are, what we're feeling.

826
01:11:15.470 --> 01:11:29.210
R. Rachel: Right, even this invented gesture, which is not actually in Torah, of he puts his hand on his brother's shoulder, is that support? Is that supremacistremacy? Is it?

827
01:11:29.710 --> 01:11:35.949
R. Rachel: Ego? Is it kindness? Right? A hand on a shoulder could mean half a dozen different things.

828
01:11:36.950 --> 01:11:41.389
R. David (he/him): Don't kill them, don't kill them. Vienna, and then we're gonna keep going.

829
01:11:41.390 --> 01:11:42.449
R. Rachel: And we're gonna keep going.

830
01:11:42.770 --> 01:11:53.510
Diana Rico: I just want to ask a question of clarification. I'm understanding this is… this being written from Korach's point of view, is that correct? Yes. Okay, thank you.

831
01:11:53.510 --> 01:11:55.450
R. Rachel: This is the voice of Korach.

832
01:11:55.450 --> 01:11:55.950
Diana Rico: Okay.

833
01:11:55.950 --> 01:12:01.500
R. Rachel: Part of a much longer piece that we included in full in the additional materials at the back.

834
01:12:03.620 --> 01:12:08.509
Rachel Rudansky: I object to that. It just doesn't sound like Korak.

835
01:12:08.780 --> 01:12:10.230
Rachel Rudansky: Doesn't seem… so…

836
01:12:10.230 --> 01:12:21.019
R. David (he/him): So I had thought, the first time I read it, that he… that Rachel Behrman, who's a colleague of ours, was essentially saying what if Korak had been a woman?

837
01:12:21.320 --> 01:12:23.150
R. David (he/him): Daughters of Eve and all that.

838
01:12:23.350 --> 01:12:25.369
R. David (he/him): So here we have Annabelle.

839
01:12:25.370 --> 01:12:33.359
R. Rachel: Now we have a machlokid between the rabunim, because I understood this as she is speaking in Korach's voice. I think this is meant to be Korach speaking.

840
01:12:33.650 --> 01:12:37.470
R. David (he/him): Yeah, but what if Korok was a girl? Which turns out to be what Anna

841
01:12:37.670 --> 01:12:41.359
R. David (he/him): is now writing. So, what if Korok were feding?

842
01:12:43.400 --> 01:12:44.670
R. David (he/him): I wouldn't have gone.

843
01:12:44.820 --> 01:12:46.349
R. David (he/him): Who was not readily?

844
01:12:47.080 --> 01:12:49.300
R. Rachel: Someone want to read Anna Battler for us.

845
01:12:53.940 --> 01:12:56.280
R. David (he/him): Iris, you're the only one unmuted, go for it.

846
01:12:57.280 --> 01:12:58.350
Iris Barten: I'm sorry.

847
01:12:59.430 --> 01:13:03.069
Iris Barten: I was just typing in chat, I had a question.

848
01:13:03.410 --> 01:13:04.250
R. David (he/him): Okay.

849
01:13:04.250 --> 01:13:06.120
Iris Barten: Oh, it's alright, I can see this now.

850
01:13:07.280 --> 01:13:18.030
Iris Barten: Imagine a woman gathering her sisters in rebellion and going to the men in her community. I imagine what she would say in her rebellion.

851
01:13:18.570 --> 01:13:28.640
Iris Barten: Is it not too much for you men? Are we not more than the wombs that bore your sons? Are we not holy, too? We hear the voice of God.

852
01:13:28.700 --> 01:13:42.560
Iris Barten: We are called to service. We are called to leave our tents and remove our scars. Do not fear our voices or our hair blowing in the desert wind. We too are priests, prophets, and elders.

853
01:13:42.700 --> 01:13:54.510
Iris Barten: Welcome us to your courts and holy places. God speaks to us. Why do you men exalt yourself over your mothers, your sisters, your daughters, and your wives?

854
01:13:54.930 --> 01:14:03.609
Iris Barten: Women, men, God, together, let us write a new law, a law… a law that honors our holiness.

855
01:14:08.050 --> 01:14:09.640
R. David (he/him): within the Earth… go ahead.

856
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:14.550
Iris Barten: Would then the earth open up and swallow her like it swallowed Korach?

857
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:19.460
Iris Barten: Or would there be too many of us for the earth to swallow?

858
01:14:21.230 --> 01:14:22.470
R. Rachel: I want to name…

859
01:14:23.240 --> 01:14:31.539
R. Rachel: something that, for me, is very important here. It is, I think, particularly easy for women to resonate with Korach.

860
01:14:32.090 --> 01:14:36.429
R. Rachel: Because this cry of, aren't we all holy?

861
01:14:36.860 --> 01:14:42.270
R. Rachel: is also one that Jewish women have been crying out.

862
01:14:43.570 --> 01:14:50.440
R. Rachel: In the last century, In written word, and certainly before that, in ways that we don't have access to.

863
01:14:52.940 --> 01:14:55.440
R. David (he/him): I love this next one. Rabbi Rachel, you want it?

864
01:14:55.440 --> 01:14:57.299
R. Rachel: so great. Sure.

865
01:14:57.300 --> 01:14:57.969
R. David (he/him): This is so friendly.

866
01:14:57.970 --> 01:15:04.770
R. Rachel: Hedren. So we remember On Ben Ben Pellet, right? One of the people who was mentioned as part of the rebel gang of Korath.

867
01:15:05.630 --> 01:15:08.429
R. Rachel: Ben Pellett's wife tried to save him.

868
01:15:09.220 --> 01:15:10.300
R. Rachel: She said to him.

869
01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:18.819
R. Rachel: What is this dispute for you? If Aharon is high priest, you're a disciple. If Korach is high priest, you're a disciple.

870
01:15:19.090 --> 01:15:24.239
R. Rachel: She said to him, I know all the community is holy, as in for all the congregation is holy.

871
01:15:24.770 --> 01:15:26.090
R. Rachel: What did she do?

872
01:15:26.450 --> 01:15:31.179
R. Rachel: She gave him wine to drink, got him drunk, and had him lie down in her bed.

873
01:15:31.740 --> 01:15:37.989
R. Rachel: Then she and her daughter sat outside the door of the house and let down their hair.

874
01:15:38.630 --> 01:15:39.330
R. David (he/him): The mob…

875
01:15:39.330 --> 01:15:41.059
R. Rachel: Came for her husband.

876
01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:46.649
R. Rachel: Ong, saw her, left, And we're swallowed up.

877
01:15:47.350 --> 01:15:57.179
R. Rachel: This is what is written. The wise among women builds her house, says Own's wife, and the foolish will destroy it with her hands. This is Korach's wife.

878
01:15:57.890 --> 01:16:00.179
R. Rachel: Okay, what… what just happened here?

879
01:16:01.700 --> 01:16:05.760
R. Rachel: what does… On's wife actually do.

880
01:16:10.930 --> 01:16:19.889
R. Rachel: So she says, what's the big deal? If Aaron's in charge, you're a disciple. If Korach becomes in charge, you're still a disciple, right? This isn't gonna change your life at all.

881
01:16:20.090 --> 01:16:21.270
R. Rachel: Dear husband.

882
01:16:23.650 --> 01:16:24.770
R. David (he/him): Here come the hands.

883
01:16:24.770 --> 01:16:26.960
R. Rachel: Here come the hands, Deanna and then James.

884
01:16:27.690 --> 01:16:33.100
Diana Rico: What does that mean? What does it signify that they let down their hair and sat outside the door?

885
01:16:33.100 --> 01:16:34.870
R. Rachel: So glad you asked!

886
01:16:34.870 --> 01:16:37.380
Diana Rico: It sounds sexual to me, but I don't know.

887
01:16:37.380 --> 01:16:42.490
R. Rachel: That is exactly what it is meant to sound. So, according to the customs of

888
01:16:42.740 --> 01:16:51.360
R. Rachel: the Talmudic time when this text was written down, right? And this is custom in some Jewish communities to this day. A married woman covers her hair.

889
01:16:52.100 --> 01:16:58.390
R. Rachel: Right? The hair is only to be seen by her husband, so uncovering her hair is something of a…

890
01:16:58.530 --> 01:17:03.349
R. Rachel: Possibly provocative move. Certainly immodest.

891
01:17:04.380 --> 01:17:10.280
R. Rachel: And so, the mob comes to get on to say, come on, let's go… be a mob.

892
01:17:10.490 --> 01:17:15.750
R. Rachel: But they see women with their hair unloosed, and they, oh, can't look at that, and they turn away.

893
01:17:16.400 --> 01:17:22.650
R. Rachel: And for that reason, he does not get out of his drunken sleep and go join the rebellion, and therefore he does not die.

894
01:17:23.540 --> 01:17:27.949
R. Rachel: So she has just saved his wife by her knowledge that… saved his life.

895
01:17:28.190 --> 01:17:31.110
R. Rachel: By her knowledge of how other people will react to their hair.

896
01:17:32.490 --> 01:17:37.039
R. David (he/him): Which, of course, is such an old, old, old trope.

897
01:17:38.480 --> 01:17:52.480
R. David (he/him): women being relegated to using their proverbial sexual wiles in order to have societal impact. So yes, within its sphere, this is all the things, and

898
01:17:52.630 --> 01:18:04.060
R. David (he/him): Who's missing from the conversation? What does Midrash always do? Include the excluded, give a voice to the voiceless, uplift moral themes. Why must we factionalize? Does it really matter?

899
01:18:05.770 --> 01:18:08.160
R. David (he/him): Or is it just color war? James.

900
01:18:09.970 --> 01:18:13.310
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): So I mentioned this in the chat, but I'll say it here, too.

901
01:18:13.460 --> 01:18:20.359
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Generally speaking, in Torah, women are not depicted in a way similar to what we see with Korach.

902
01:18:20.750 --> 01:18:22.829
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): That's how men are typically depicted.

903
01:18:22.830 --> 01:18:23.190
R. Rachel: Hmm.

904
01:18:23.190 --> 01:18:24.450
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): The long made short.

905
01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:25.740
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Men are idiots.

906
01:18:25.910 --> 01:18:27.910
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Women are sensible.

907
01:18:28.240 --> 01:18:29.930
R. Rachel: And this story…

908
01:18:31.070 --> 01:18:36.039
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And this story's another example of it. Owen Pollett's wife is sensible!

909
01:18:36.270 --> 01:18:51.580
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): You know, like it says, and it basically says it within the story, she's like, dude, who cares where you're at in the rankings? It doesn't matter. And I'm not gonna let you go out and do something stupid, so here, have some alcohol, take a nap.

910
01:18:51.960 --> 01:18:52.480
R. Rachel: Yep!

911
01:18:52.670 --> 01:18:53.900
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And we see that…

912
01:18:54.150 --> 01:18:54.860
R. Rachel: Have a great…

913
01:18:54.860 --> 01:18:57.099
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Over in Torah. Over and over in Torah.

914
01:18:57.610 --> 01:18:58.610
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): So…

915
01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:12.890
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): what I was saying in the chat is that, you know, you're not typically going to see a woman depicted in that light in Torah, because women are generally the sensible ones that prevent the men from doing things like this. We see it with the golden calf.

916
01:19:13.320 --> 01:19:16.139
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): We see it in just so many stories.

917
01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:17.210
R. David (he/him): Yep.

918
01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:21.750
R. David (he/him): Rabbi Rachel, question for you,

919
01:19:21.750 --> 01:19:35.840
R. Rachel: Time-wise, let's skip Anna Varonez, we've just done what it does. Let's get to Part 2, especially because Cheryl just asked, what is part two of this text? There are two texts we want to look at, and I think we can do it in the last seven minutes. Who wants to read Sanhedrin Part 2?

920
01:19:36.700 --> 01:19:38.430
R. David (he/him): This is just a continuation.

921
01:19:42.130 --> 01:19:45.869
Diana Rico: Moses went to Datan and Avaram.

922
01:19:46.200 --> 01:19:52.399
Diana Rico: Raish Lakesh said, From here, learn that one does not perpetuate dispute.

923
01:19:52.580 --> 01:19:57.199
Diana Rico: Rav said, one who perpetuates dispute violates.

924
01:19:57.790 --> 01:20:10.549
Diana Rico: Numbers 17.5. Do not be like Korah and like his congregation. Rav Asi said, such a person should be made a metzorah, as in Numbers 17.5.

925
01:20:10.830 --> 01:20:24.209
Diana Rico: As Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh spoke to him at the hand of Moses, and Exodus 4-6, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh spoke further to Moshe, Bring your hand, and behold, his hand had tzora'at.

926
01:20:24.480 --> 01:20:30.110
R. David (he/him): Okay, so Raat is that… it's… we would probably today call it leprosy, but it isn't really…

927
01:20:30.110 --> 01:20:30.790
R. Rachel: C.

928
01:20:30.790 --> 01:20:40.090
R. David (he/him): It's… it's the putative penalty for Lashon Harah that Miriam had, if we remember that. It's a spiritual sickness.

929
01:20:40.090 --> 01:20:44.700
R. Rachel: This is… this is… this is hanging on the fact that it says hand of Moses.

930
01:20:44.750 --> 01:21:01.699
R. Rachel: which here means just beside Moses, or at Moses' bequest, but he's saying, oh, well, it mentions a hand, which reminds me of when Moshe's hand got Sarat, because God was showing God's power. So, basically, one who… one who perpetuates a dispute, oh, they deserve to get

931
01:21:02.280 --> 01:21:04.290
R. Rachel: Surat, they suck.

932
01:21:04.290 --> 01:21:07.449
R. David (he/him): And it's… yup, and it's as bad as Lashon Haram.

933
01:21:08.120 --> 01:21:11.679
R. David (he/him): Which is Jewishly tantamount to murder.

934
01:21:12.050 --> 01:21:24.800
R. David (he/him): Perpetuating dispute that is not for the sake of heaven, without all those attributes of caring and connection and self-awareness and being willing to be convinced, all those things, that's community murder.

935
01:21:26.420 --> 01:21:33.170
R. David (he/him): And… what's the… what happens in the context of community murder? Deanna, finish it for us.

936
01:21:34.030 --> 01:21:43.290
Diana Rico: Rava expounded, it is written, Numbers 1630, but if the Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh creates a creation.

937
01:21:43.880 --> 01:21:55.809
Diana Rico: Moshe said, Master of the universe, if there is a creation of Geneha, Gehenna, fine, but if not, let Jud Fafe create it.

938
01:21:55.950 --> 01:21:57.409
Diana Rico: What did he mean?

939
01:21:57.580 --> 01:22:06.539
Diana Rico: You say to actually create it, but is it not written in Ecclesiastes 1 9? There is nothing at all new under the sun.

940
01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:11.650
Diana Rico: Rather, it is to bring close Gehenah's opening.

941
01:22:12.170 --> 01:22:14.000
R. David (he/him): Lean in, everybody, this is big.

942
01:22:15.040 --> 01:22:17.280
R. David (he/him): The way that

943
01:22:17.710 --> 01:22:25.460
R. David (he/him): Korach and his congregation. That already tells you everything, right? Korach and his congregation are gonna go down.

944
01:22:25.820 --> 01:22:33.250
R. David (he/him): is Moses says, if what's about to happen is… Totally normal.

945
01:22:34.620 --> 01:22:36.019
R. David (he/him): then God didn't do it.

946
01:22:36.450 --> 01:22:42.579
R. David (he/him): But if this is a creation, if God creates a creation that has never been seen before.

947
01:22:43.070 --> 01:22:50.869
R. David (he/him): and something happens that is totally otherworldly, then this is the will of God. And what happens?

948
01:22:51.130 --> 01:22:54.279
R. David (he/him): The earth opens up and swallows them.

949
01:22:55.820 --> 01:22:57.869
R. David (he/him): Gay chinom.

950
01:22:58.240 --> 01:23:02.600
R. David (he/him): Gaze Valley, The gnome is void.

951
01:23:03.660 --> 01:23:06.900
R. David (he/him): which we would call Gehenim, or Gehenna.

952
01:23:09.260 --> 01:23:14.389
R. Rachel: It is also colloquially used in the way we would use hell.

953
01:23:14.390 --> 01:23:14.850
R. David (he/him): hell.

954
01:23:14.850 --> 01:23:15.680
R. Rachel: the hell?

955
01:23:16.660 --> 01:23:17.730
R. David (he/him): Go to get him.

956
01:23:17.730 --> 01:23:18.080
R. Rachel: Go together.

957
01:23:18.080 --> 01:23:21.100
R. David (he/him): Go to the Valley of the Void.

958
01:23:21.100 --> 01:23:22.270
R. Rachel: Go to hell!

959
01:23:22.380 --> 01:23:23.020
R. Rachel: Right?

960
01:23:23.020 --> 01:23:23.460
R. David (he/him): What the hell?

961
01:23:23.460 --> 01:23:25.020
R. Rachel: Our tradition says hell.

962
01:23:25.390 --> 01:23:27.469
R. Rachel: Hell doesn't exist in our tradition.

963
01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:34.480
R. David (he/him): So, if you're going to perpetuate community dispute without those attributes.

964
01:23:36.160 --> 01:23:38.720
R. David (he/him): You're sending the whole community to hell.

965
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:43.889
R. Rachel: You are… or… you are bringing the opening of… you're opening a hell mouth in your community.

966
01:23:45.130 --> 01:23:51.800
R. David (he/him): And that becomes… The Korban, the drawing close. What are you drawing close to? Hell.

967
01:23:52.130 --> 01:23:55.809
R. David (he/him): Jews don't do hell, classically. This is as close as we get.

968
01:23:57.930 --> 01:24:01.470
R. David (he/him): Sucked into where the earth splits. That's what happened to Korach.

969
01:24:01.730 --> 01:24:02.300
R. Rachel: Yup.

970
01:24:03.700 --> 01:24:09.889
R. Rachel: But emotionally, spiritually, what this is saying is someone who is combative and…

971
01:24:10.270 --> 01:24:17.330
R. Rachel: disputative in community without any of those good qualities that were listed earlier. They are sending their whole community to hell with them.

972
01:24:20.210 --> 01:24:21.559
R. David (he/him): So what do we do with this?

973
01:24:22.070 --> 01:24:26.740
R. Rachel: Here is our final text from a contemporary Israeli commentator, Ron Oron.

974
01:24:27.300 --> 01:24:31.919
R. David (he/him): And it links back to… Yehuda Amikhai's poem from the very beginning.

975
01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:33.559
R. Rachel: hand, right? In, in…

976
01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:34.659
R. David (he/him): From the place where we are right now.

977
01:24:34.660 --> 01:24:38.189
R. Rachel: In a place where we are right, flowers will never blossom in the spring.

978
01:24:40.330 --> 01:24:41.289
R. David (he/him): Who wants it?

979
01:24:41.730 --> 01:24:44.370
R. David (he/him): We have three. Three paragraphs.

980
01:24:48.300 --> 01:24:50.180
Meredith (she/her): Moses is stunned.

981
01:24:50.300 --> 01:24:51.989
Meredith (she/her): Falls on his face.

982
01:24:52.130 --> 01:24:54.320
Meredith (she/her): At a loss and disbelief.

983
01:24:54.480 --> 01:25:07.299
Meredith (she/her): A family feud is the worst of all. No one prepared him for this. Even if there is justice and truth in his words, Korach's selfish demands and his pride stand in the way.

984
01:25:07.560 --> 01:25:13.989
Meredith (she/her): His eye misled him. The Midrash tells us God is angry and intervenes.

985
01:25:14.180 --> 01:25:24.599
Meredith (she/her): Korach, Datan, and Aviram, sons of the tribe of Reuben, and 250 rebels who joined him are swallowed by the earth.

986
01:25:25.410 --> 01:25:26.140
R. David (he/him): Joan.

987
01:25:27.040 --> 01:25:29.830
Joan Green: But this is only the beginning of the story.

988
01:25:29.970 --> 01:25:48.400
Joan Green: Although on the surface, God's attitude toward the rebellion and uprising is uncompromising, his subsequent actions testify to forgiveness and doubts. For him, the hole in the ground, the destruction and ruin are an opportunity for tikkun and growth.

989
01:25:48.650 --> 01:26:04.580
Joan Green: He does not hesitate to examine the event and question his actions, and you will hear a whisper in the place where there was a house, Amakai tells him. God listens and leaves Korach's sons alive.

990
01:26:09.620 --> 01:26:10.490
R. David (he/him): One more.

991
01:26:14.450 --> 01:26:16.639
R. David (he/him): Yehoda Amichai has just become a…

992
01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:17.870
R. Rachel: James, will you read this one?

993
01:26:17.870 --> 01:26:21.230
R. David (he/him): a character in Torah. James, finish it for us, please.

994
01:26:22.050 --> 01:26:28.369
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): And the sons of Korach did not die. A moment before their death, the Torah emphasizes to us God has mercy on them.

995
01:26:28.610 --> 01:26:39.120
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): A place was fortified for them in hell, and they sat on it and sang, saith the Sanhedrin. And Rashi tells us that they were saved because it was a high place where they could not go deep.

996
01:26:39.730 --> 01:26:48.150
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Standing on the threshold of the abyss, they become eternal poets and merit to write 11 songs of the Book of Salms.

997
01:26:48.730 --> 01:26:59.300
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): Like a hind crying for water, my soul cries for you, O God. They sing in pain and longing. Even the bird found a home in the sparrow a nest for herself.

998
01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:02.680
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): From the depth of the earth rises poetry.

999
01:27:03.150 --> 01:27:10.150
James Nerlinger (Cincinnati, Ohio USA): That will help the nation to grow and emerge generation after generation from ashes and ruined.

1000
01:27:11.540 --> 01:27:14.210
R. David (he/him): Sons of Korach are credited with writing.

1001
01:27:14.330 --> 01:27:18.109
R. David (he/him): 11 of the Psalms. A Psalm of Korach.

1002
01:27:19.360 --> 01:27:25.689
R. Rachel: And a whisper will be heard in the place where once stood the ruined house.

1003
01:27:26.670 --> 01:27:27.920
R. Rachel: Amihai.

1004
01:27:28.520 --> 01:27:31.750
R. David (he/him): One can come back from this brokenness.

1005
01:27:33.440 --> 01:27:33.930
R. Rachel: In fact.

1006
01:27:33.930 --> 01:27:37.069
R. David (he/him): It is not… it is not a one-way trip.

1007
01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:41.229
R. David (he/him): It is possible, it is necessary.

1008
01:27:42.940 --> 01:27:51.349
R. David (he/him): for us, To come back from community rancor, where it exists, or national rancor, where it exists.

1009
01:27:51.920 --> 01:27:53.530
R. David (he/him): And there's a lot of rancor.

1010
01:27:56.060 --> 01:27:58.780
R. David (he/him): But we can only do it with those attributes.

1011
01:27:58.910 --> 01:28:01.509
R. David (he/him): Of self-recognition and humility.

1012
01:28:01.790 --> 01:28:04.679
R. David (he/him): And wanting to be in connection.

1013
01:28:05.110 --> 01:28:06.749
R. David (he/him): And someone's gotta start.

1014
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:09.170
R. David (he/him): Someone's gotta start.

1015
01:28:10.390 --> 01:28:12.920
R. David (he/him): This comes now, precisely now.

1016
01:28:13.200 --> 01:28:14.999
R. Rachel: Exactly, when we need to.

1017
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:17.189
R. David (he/him): because it's the month of Tammuz.

1018
01:28:17.430 --> 01:28:21.129
R. David (he/him): And after Tammuz comes off, And here we go.

1019
01:28:21.830 --> 01:28:27.100
R. Rachel: And after awe comes the 7-week ascent to the days of awe.

1020
01:28:27.850 --> 01:28:30.529
R. David (he/him): A descent for the sake of ascent.

1021
01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:35.330
R. David (he/him): It is not just the dissent, that is not the end of the story.

1022
01:28:35.890 --> 01:28:43.139
R. David (he/him): As for communities, so for each of us individually, where we have our own machlok, it's big and small.

1023
01:28:43.630 --> 01:28:47.709
R. David (he/him): Most often, and most importantly, within our own selves.

1024
01:28:48.570 --> 01:28:55.779
R. David (he/him): I wouldn't want to be Korach for anything, granted, I'm not sure I'd want to be Moses for anything either. But we're all a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

1025
01:28:56.820 --> 01:29:00.160
R. David (he/him): So, on this Shabbat of Koracho Goody.

1026
01:29:02.870 --> 01:29:06.810
R. David (he/him): It's a reminder, an invitation, hopefully a blessing.

1027
01:29:07.090 --> 01:29:08.959
R. David (he/him): To check in with ourselves.

1028
01:29:09.070 --> 01:29:10.849
R. David (he/him): Yes, we are holy.

1029
01:29:11.530 --> 01:29:15.339
R. David (he/him): And acting like it, means those attributes.

1030
01:29:16.180 --> 01:29:23.369
R. David (he/him): To build community. To… have Maslocat that really is worthy of heaven.

1031
01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:25.910
R. David (he/him): That connects us.

1032
01:29:26.610 --> 01:29:29.919
R. David (he/him): And where we fall down on that job, so to speak, okay.

1033
01:29:31.310 --> 01:29:32.740
R. David (he/him): Story's not over.

1034
01:29:33.850 --> 01:29:35.200
R. David (he/him): Story's not over.

1035
01:29:36.250 --> 01:29:36.830
R. Rachel: And…

1036
01:29:38.220 --> 01:29:48.620
R. David (he/him): Quick reminders. I do see Cheryl's hand. Quick reminders, we're gonna continue week by week through July 18th.

1037
01:29:48.620 --> 01:29:53.349
R. Rachel: I am not here, but Rabbi David is. I've got a bar mitzvah at the shul.

1038
01:29:54.320 --> 01:29:58.220
R. David (he/him): Right, so we will be here through July 18.

1039
01:29:58.370 --> 01:30:07.490
R. David (he/him): The following week is Tish Abba'av, and then we start the 7-week runway. You can register, if you wish, on either synagogue's website.

1040
01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:11.039
R. David (he/him): If you're members, it's free. If not.

1041
01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:12.759
R. Rachel: There's a gift.

1042
01:30:12.900 --> 01:30:22.519
R. David (he/him): talk to us. And here we go. So, blessings for this… Shabbat of Northern Brightest Light.

1043
01:30:22.630 --> 01:30:28.519
R. David (he/him): Amazing. Coming around the bend, And being in relationship and community.

1044
01:30:28.790 --> 01:30:35.770
R. David (he/him): We're gonna stop the recording and stay on as we always do. Shabbat Shalom and Cheryl, you'll be the first out of the box.

1045
01:30:36.420 --> 01:30:41.439
R. David (he/him): I'll put the, The store sheet in the chat box.