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The story of Korach

A long time ago, the Jewish people were in the desert.

They were led by Moshe.

Moshe was the leader chosen by G-d.

But there was a man named Korach.

Korach said:

“Why is Moshe the leader? I can do that too!”

He became angry and wanted to be the leader himself.

He also tried to convince other people to join him.

That caused arguments and trouble.

G-d was not happy with this fight.

Moshe asks G-d something

Moshe prayed to G-d and said:

“G-d, You know exactly who is good and who is not.
So why should everyone be punished together?”

Moshe knew:

G-d knows everything about everyone.

A big question

The wise Jewish teachers asked an important question:

How does G-d look at the world?

The Rambam says

The Rambam says:

When a person tries to do good and live the way G-d wants, that person feels that G-d is close.

But when a person does very wrong things and moves far away from G-d, it seems like G-d does not care.

It feels like that person is just living in the normal world.

The Baal Shem Tov says

The Baal Shem Tov says:

No.

G-d is always there.

For everyone.

For good people and for bad people.

Even a small leaf that falls from a tree does not just happen by itself.

G-d is involved in everything.

The Rebbe explains

The Rebbe says:

They are not really disagreeing.

They are just looking at it in different ways.

The real truth

G-d is always there.

For everyone.

But sometimes:

Back to Korach

Korach thought he could just do whatever he wanted.

But G-d knew exactly what was happening.

Moshe said:

“G-d, You know everything about everyone.”

And G-d showed that He knew exactly what had happened.

What do we learn from this?

You can remember this:

One sentence to remember

G-d is always there, for everyone — sometimes we see it clearly, and sometimes we do not.

Del rabbino Tuvia Serber e Angelique Sijbolts


Fonte

Basato sulla discussione del Rebbe di Lubavitch in Likkutei Sichot, volume 18, pag. 196, trattando la storia di Korach, il commentario di Rashi su Numeri 16:22 e gli insegnamenti del Rambam, del Baal Shem Tov e del Mitteler Rebbe riguardo alla Divina Provvidenza.




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