Friday, June
11, 2010
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Parashas
Korach
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Despite
all of the potentially evil motivations that one could attribute to the actions
of Korach and his followers, Chazal seem to find only one, seemingly minor fault in Korach’s dispute—it was not completely
leshem shomayim, for the sake of heaven.
As Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, the great Mashgiach of the Mir Yeshiva concludes
from the Mishna in Avos, except for this element of “lo lishma,” the machlokes
of Korach with Moshe would have been
similar in its kedusha to that of the great Torah disputes of
Still, with all of Korach’s
greatness, it must be considered how it is that he seemingly did not consider
the possibility that he was not acting completely for the sake of heaven? Surely, he must have fulfilled the
recommendations of Chazal and our great Baalei Mussar to search the depths of
his motivations before he acted. From
this, Rav Yeruchom derives a great practical insight relevant to all.
Indeed, Korah did
consider that he may have possessed some personal prejudice involved in his
decision. But he also knew that Chazal
teach that one must always first involve himself in Torah and mitzvos “ shelo
leshma”, for personal gain, because from this less than ideal beginning, there
will eventually arise an ability to learn and perform for only the highest
motivations, leshem shomayim. Korach’s
mistake was that he believed that this principle of “betoch shelo leshma, ba
leshma,” applied to machlokes, too. The
Parasha named for him comes
to teach us that machlokes is the singular exception to this rule. Unless one is sure that his motivations are
100% purely for the sake of HaShem and His Torah, he is not allowed to pursue a
machlokes even for the sake of a mitzvah.
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