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| | Parashat Korach - Rabbi Pinchas Frankel |
 | | These characteristics, as Pirke Avot states in the name of Rabbi Elazar HaKappar, "Jealousy, excessive desire in general, and desire for honor, in particular, remove a person from the world," (Avot, 4:28) as Korach himself literally was so removed. |
 | | But when they came to the Desert of Paran, they were burnt in the fire at Taverah (BaMidbar 11:1-3; because they assumed the attitude, for no apparent reason, of complainers), and many died at Kivrot HaTaavah, (when they sinned by complaining about their vegetarian diet - BaMidbar 11:4-34)." |
 | | I wish to focus on the question of why this revolt happened specifically "here and now," in the Desert of Paran, after the sin of the "Meraglim," the "Spies," who misreported concerning Eretz Yisrael with disastrous consequences, somewhat comparably to the way the media, in general, portrays Israel today. |
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