Korah seeks to seemingly democratize the nation by decrying Moses’s elitism and creates division by offering egalitarianism, but Moses sees what he's really after: Unbridled power. This week’s Torah ...

What is repentance? It is a small, good thought filled with love – the kind of thought that saved the sons of Korah from a tragic fate; a moment of introspection that can save any Jew from harm. In ...

In a previous column (which I will add at the end of this essay) I discussed why Korah coveted Aaron’s role rather than that of Moses. After all, if one wants to be numero uno one seeks to unseat ...

Korah, the Bible tells us, was an affluent, ambitious man who was also a rebel. He publicly defied the leadership of Moses and tried, unsuccessfully, to start a movement to impeach Moses and possibly ...

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This week’s Torah portion, Korah, tells a spectacular story of rebellion and punishment. Korah challenges Moses and Aaron’s rule with a deceptively simple argument: “All of the community is holy.… ...

When Captain Spock died in “The Wrath of Khan” (1982), I was curious how he’d return in “The Search for Spock” (1984). Back then, I knew that the actor, Leonard Nimoy, was Jewish, but my draw to him ...