Korach is a fascinating Torah portion because, as happens so often when the Torah narrates real-life events, the characters ring incredibly true. We all know superficially good people who have so much going for them, yet who propel themselves down a horrific course of self-destruction, driven by jealousy or incomprehensible animus.
These feelings, often born of an overwhelming inferiority complex or personal instability, frequently find their nearest convenient outlet when targeted at the pastor, the priest, the rabbi. It’s so commonplace that Christian theologians even coined a term for it: clergy killers. Based on this week’s parasha, you could also call it the Korach phenomenon.
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