To raise or to lower? That is a crucial question for a person to consider regarding how one’s spiritual life impacts other people and the world itself. Do I wield my Judaism, my Torah, my very being ...

Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, is the lead rabbi of congregation Mishkan Shalom, in Philadelphia, PA, co-founder and co-director of the Davennen Leader’s Training Institute and is a spiritual director and ...

Much of Sefer Bemidbar concerns the Jewish people’s preparations for entry into the Land of Israel and their growing understanding of the challenges of nationhood. One inadvertent function, perhaps ...

In one of those biting and perhaps ironic alignments of Torah and public Jewish life, we read Parashat Korach as three contemporary rebellions came to a climax this week in contested Jewish leadership ...

As the summer begins and young people set off into the broader world, often without close supervision for the first time, it’s a moment that invites reflection. What wisdom is worth passing on? What ...

The controversy of Korach and his congregation – unlike the controversy of the scholars Hillel and Shammai – is a controversy not pursued in a heavenly cause. It therefore does not endure (Ethics of ...

Our Torah reading takes its name from its central figure, Korach. More than a few years ago, this was my bar mitzvah parsha. As a 13-year-old, my perspective of the Korach story was simplistic: A mob ...

The second half of the Book of Numbers is filled with rebellion and conflict. Moses is attacked by the people, by his family and by his tribe. Parashat Korach fits into this context, describing a ...