Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Korach

welcome to this week's tour lesson this week's toy portions the question of the week is how is it that a Torah portion is named korach after a sinner that didn't repent so the rabbit explains in this week's Torah portion of partials you give a look who is on one hand koirak what was his motive koirock's motive was he wanted to be a high priest so if you focus in on the motive of korach here you have a personal yearning he wants to be the high priest and if you focus on his yearning it's a beautiful thing he wants to be the high priest and matter of fact Rashi says he often in Russia's it's a beautiful drash beautiful commentaries in other words what's beautiful what's beautiful is that a Jew wants to meet a high priest what was the problem the problem was we know that a Hashem when he created the world he created the world with the letter hey the letter hey Hashem created the world what is the letter A symbolize the letter a is structured with a line on the right along the top there's a gap and then there's a small small line on the left side what do they resemble they resemble thought Deborah speech and action and in that proportion you have thought speech and then you have a gap in the action in other words Judaism all is all about serving Hashem would have your inspiration your speech and then action on the other hand his his name is spelled with a cuff a race all similar to the hay but each one had a little different the cuff so you have the letter of this the stick on the side went down lower the rage there's no no stick on the side and the hair so stick goes up to the top so they're all they're all different than one side what is that what does the outside represent it represents the idea of action see either his action was too too too much on the ground or there was no action or it was connected right after the speech there was some disconnect in the world of action so in other words as koir has created his dream was to be the high priest but in action that's where he was lacking so therefore when you look at karak's dream what he wanted to be hey it's an inspiration he wanted to be high priest but the look at his life that he led unfortunately was not a great life so therefore the represent this problem was the Torah portion is called kairak because we focus exclusively on the fact that his dream what was his dream his dream was he wanted to be a high priest and that's why even though he was a sinner even though he didn't repent the Torah portion was called after him because it's to inspire us like Rashi says he offering the direction this is the greatest commentary to look at someone even like Kaira who sinned and didn't repent you can look at him in a positive way what's positive about him he wanted to be the high priest and interestingly enough this week is gimmel Thomas the anniversary of the river passing away the rabbit toward us to look at every single Jew in the positive side not that look at what he's going through and eventually he's going to be good no no look right here what he's going through right now it's the positive and that's the real gift the real gift is to be able to look at every person and every situation and see only positive and great positivity like it says yaphen and Russia it's a beautiful way to look at it hold it from perspective who is kairak he wanted to be the high priest and we look at the world that way the world becomes that way it becomes a holy and godly place thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tutorial lesson this week's Torah lessons dedicated to memory of Baruch minari label Sarah May their souls be elevated right Torah were studying in their memory for more information please see our website Chabad swf.org have a great and blessed week