The Bible’s Book of Numbers, Chapter 16, says that God stood behind the leadership of Moses by suddenly creating a huge sink hole beneath Korah and his accomplices that just swallowed them alive.

In this week’s parsha, Korah, who is Moses’s cousin (from the Levi family) and his cronies rebel. Just like Miriam and Aaron, they ask why he and Aaron think they are better than the rest of ...

In a previous column (which I will add at the end of this essay) I discussed why Korah coveted Aaron’s role rather than that of Moses. After all, if one wants to be numero uno one seeks to ...

But why was Korah so different from others who challenged Moses and his leadership? Why does this episode stand out in the Torah as the archetype of insurrection? As we know, Korah’s first ...

Korah challenges Moses and Aaron’s rule with a deceptively simple argument: “All of the community is holy.… What makes you so special that you raise yourselves up?” (Numbers 16:3 ...

Korah seeks to seemingly democratize the nation by decrying Moses’s elitism and creates division by offering egalitarianism, but Moses sees what he's really after: Unbridled power. WHAT IS Korah ...

Taking center stage — but for a brief while — is Korah, who along with his wrongheaded cohorts Dathan, Abiram and On, challenges God’s authority and attempts to remove Moses from his ...

Moses’ multiple responses indicate that he understands that his opponents are disunited. His first response is indeed to Korah and his community, with no mention of the Reuvenites.