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Korach And Korach gathered together the entire community Says the Mateh Aharon - for a mitzvah it is difficult to gather the entire community. To create dissension and strife, Korach managed to get everyone to come and listen. Separate yourself from this community In a town close to Ko'znits arguments developed between the Chassidim and their opponents in the town. The Chasidim decided to establish their own community, independent of the established Kehilla. When the Ko'znitser Maggid found out , he invited the leaders of the Chasidim to him and told them. "The Torah describes the punishment for many of the greatest sins possible. However only once - by the story of Korach - does the Torah require us remove ourselves from amongst the sinners. Korach and his friends wished to bring dissension and separation into the community, so we have a responsibility to separate from them. The leaders of the Chassidim understood and abandoned their plans to begin a separate community. Moshe told the Bnei Yisroel in front of Korach and his friends Doson and Avirom, "If they die a normal death then Hashem has not sent me." The Sanzer Rov asks why it is that they needed to die a strange death to bring proof of Moshe Rabbenu's stewardship. Certainly proof would be brought from a normal death. He answers - anyone who creates Machlokes and denigrates communal leaders are deserving of death - even if what they claim is true. A strange death was proof that the claim against Moshe was also false. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them They sinned with their mouths and spoke Loshon Horah to create strife, so they were punished with the mouth of the earth opening and destroying them. |
