Korach

Parasha KORACH

Numbers 16:1 – 18:32

(Geneva Bible)

Please Pray this

Prayer, before reading

I Prayer

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parasha

That the Truth of Torah may

Come forth. Amen

The thirty-eight Portion of the Torah begins; “Now Korach, the son of Izhar, the son of kehath, the Son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the son of Elid and On, the son of peleth, sons of Reuben, took men; and they rose up against Moses, with certain of the Children of Yisrael, two hundred and fifty men; they were prince of the congregation, the elect men of the assembly, men of renown; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much upon yourselves, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and YAHVEH is among them; why do you then lift yourselves up above the assembly of YAHVEH? And Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.”

Every day of our lives, we do one of two things: We create positive or negative situation by the combination of the Words of Torah we used. We take the words that were meant to be positive word and used them in the negative, as Korach did.

As gods on a pilgrimage, we need to constantly hold onto this understanding because it is very important to remember in our study and in our work. If we truly accept responsibility for the tzerufin – the combination of the letters within the Torah, then we will appreciate the spiritual importance of the word we used.

Korach was a very negative person, meaning that he was operating in the negative spectrum of his personality, nevertheless he still had the potential to be a very positive person like the rest of us. The clue to his negativity is the word Vayikach, meaning that he was a taker, as Lucifer was. We can learn a very important spiritual lesson from this Torah Portion. That when a person wishes only to receive, he can only achieve negative results.

Hopefully, our goal on the Sabbath of Korach is to make a strong connection with the Holy Spirit, we will begin to understand what he did and why, so that the Korach in all of us, the ability to received for ourselfish ego, may not rise up against our brothers.

Too many so-called leaders today, manifest the spirit of korach, they sacrifice the spiritual for the physical. In contrast to earlier occasions when the people complained about the lack of food and water, or for a El “god” to take Moses place as an intermediary between ABBA YAHVEH and Yisrael; in this Torah Portion there is an outright rebellion, an attempt to overthrow Moses and Aaron as the divine leaders of Yisrael.

The leader of the rebellion was their cousin and a fellow Levite, name Korach. As it is typical of would be usurpers who must attract a popular support to be successful, Korach posed as a champion of the Masses by discrediting Moses. Typical of most negative people, they will always speak poorly of leadership. As is so often seen in nature, one cannot pick good fruits from a bad tree.

Korach rebelled right after the inauguration of the Tabernacle, when Aaron and his sons were designated to replace the firstborn as the only ones who would perform the sacrificial service. This seems to trigger something in Korach, who was himself a firstborn, and it was easy for him to enlist two hundred and fifty others leaders who were also of the same nature, firstborn men such as: Dathan, Abiram, and On who were of the Tribe of Reuben, which had their own reason to be resentful, after having lost their privilege as firstborn to the offspring of Joseph. Levites were also upset for having being relegated to the assistants of the Kohanim.

Korah’s own resentment began with his Ego, when Aaron was made Kohen Gadol or when their cousin Elizaphan son of Uzziel was place in charge of the Kohathite family, Making Him Korach’s superior, and gave him a position that Korach felt should have been his.

Every action that we as human manifest, comes from the dominant program of our heart. If our heart is not being controlled by the Holy Spirit and Torah, we will always manifest the desire to received, which is the me first mentality. A person with such a dominant selfish desire will always look for the ideal opportunity to manifest their desire mask under the other person selfish desire.

Korach found an excuse to challenge Moses’ legitimacy, it was a short step for him to deny the Divine origin of the Commandments and hold them up to ridicule, for if Moses could be suspected of appointing his brother as Kohen Gadol, then why could he not be accused of fabricating a commandment such a forty years wondering in the Wilderness which had no basic in Logic.

By means of such challenge, Korach sought to convince the people that such illogical laws must have been the product of Moses’ own imagination. Moses was a very humble man, Moses had his Ego under total check, Korach on the other hand was manifesting his ego under the disguise of being a champion of the People.

What we do know is that whatever situation we may be going through is necessary to correction the Ego in us. When we begin to see the story of Korach and Moses in this spiritual context, we begin to see our own life. Moses illustrates the humility or the development of his Ego, while Korach died while trying to hold on to his defective Ego. If Korach had only said to Moses I was wrong! What do you think the outcome would have been?

This action of Korach was to remove the last segment of the selfish Ego that Moses had in himself. Moses past the test with flying color. When you read through this Portion, take a good look at yourself and ask, what would I do if I was Moses?

Would I kick them out of my church as many Pastor do to anyone who challenge them. Or would I fall humbly on my knee and seek ABBY YAHVEH’ for forgiveness for my challengers.