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.
