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פורסם ברביעי, 25 נובמבר 2020 08:02

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Portion of Korach - What's Smoking There? and Why do Holy People Fail Sometimes?

Portion of Korach - Based on the Kuzari by Rav Yehuda Halevy and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's Wisdom

The stories from the age of the Talmud tell of a great rabbi travelling in the Sinai with a guide when he saw a column of smoke - and heard voices - rising from the desert floor. 

"What's that?" he asked - and was answered "That's Korach - burning way below - and repeating over and over "Moses was Right"!" 

The Kuzari King asks the Rabbi - how could the generation of leaving Egypt fail in so many tests - 
including the fight between Korah and his followers who fought with Moshe Rabaynu (Moses)?

So the Rabbi answered "They failed 10 times in 40 years in the desert - but MOST of US fail more than 10 times a DAY!"

But that doesn't really answer the question WHY is it that holy people sometimes fail?

WHY doesn't being holy protect you?

Rabbi Carlebach explained that there is a difference between doing everything right-
and DOING IT FROM THE INSIDE OF YOUR INSIDES - deep in your heart.

We can be holy, do the right thing - but what happens?
According to our sages "holy" people are tested over and over again - and sometimes fail ( we can call it the Murphy-o-witz rule?)

Korach did everything right - all the laws of the Almighty -
but deep inside there was maybe something that kept him from loving how he was following Hashem
from doing it from a deep love.

We need to LOVE the Almighty -
remember ALL the GOOD -
live with the difficult things as PART of a GREATER PLAN we don't understand -

and hopefully we will know ON THIS WORLD that "Moses was Right" -
and love our part in G-d's Greater Plan.

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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