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We find in parshat Korach
a very strange
pasuk. The very first sentence says
Vayikach Korach and Korach took and says
his lineage. It tells us the verb what
he did, but it doesn't say the noun what
did he take?
So, [music] the commentaries offer
different suggestions that
but we want to concentrate on one.
Rav Dessler writes famously that
that's exactly the point. There's
nothing that Korach took
specifically. Right? But he became a
taker. The Torah is not telling us what
he took, he's just saying he became in
the mindset of a taker. The whole
problem, the whole episode, the the the
the challenges and the and the
punishment of Korach happened because he
became a taker. Rav Dessler [music]
writes the whole world is split into two
categories of people. Those who are
takers and those who are givers.
In other words,
what are you What are you trying to
accomplish when you talk to people? Are
you trying to see what's in it for me?
How can I take from them? What can I
benefit from them?
Or are you trying to be a kind [music]
person like Hashem always being
looking for what to give to others, what
to benefit them with?
So, Rav [music] Dessler writes that even
sometimes people who are look like
they're givers, they're giving of
themselves, but it's really
in order to take.
There's a crazy story. There was once a
young man who was became very [music]
wealthy.
And he became a multi-millionaire and he
was
it was time for him to get married.
And his parents urged him to get
married. He said, "I don't want to get
married." "Why not?"
He said, "Because I don't want to share
my wealth with my wife.
>> [music]
>> What if she's, you know, takes it and
leaves me?" He was very scared.
So, they spoke to the rabbi and the
rabbi convinced him, "Don't worry, your
wife is We're going to check her out.
Don't worry." So, finally
after years of
being convinced he finally got married.
But now he said, "I don't want to have
any children. What if they take my money
away?"
And again, same convincing.
Once he and he and his wife were
traveling and they stayed in a certain
hut in the forest and he was walking
with his partner in the woods and all of
a sudden he fell down in the the leaves
and there was a puddle of water and he
was starting to to drown. And his
partner said, "Give me your hand. Give
me your hand. I'll save you."
And the guy drowned. He ran home The
assistant ran home to his wife and said,
"I'm sorry. Your husband just drowned."
She said, "What? What happened?" He told
the whole story. She said, "Did you try
to save him?" "Yes.
I told him, 'Give me my Give me your
hand.'" She said, "You fool. My husband
would never give anything. He was so
greedy. You should have said, 'Take my
hand.' If you would have said that, then
he would have grabbed onto your hand and
you would have saved him." Lesson goes
to show us that a person should try to
become like Hashem, a giver, giver, to
be
giving of himself as much as he can and
Hashem will bless you in turn.
