Parshas Korach: Rav Shimon Schwab - The Post Miraglim New World Order
"Madua Tisnasi'u Al Khal Hashem" (Korach 16:3). It seems strange that Korach would suddenly challenge Moshe Rabbeinu's leadership. After all was it not Moshe who took them out of Mitzrayim? Was it not Moshe who split the Yam Suf? Was it not Moshe who stood on top of Har Sinai? Was it not Moshe who went to Shamayim to bring down the Torah? Where was Korach in all this and why now does he feel that the leadership is his?
Rav Shimon Schwab answers that Korach came to complain after the failed mission of the Miraglim. In the aftermath Hashem said that this generation will not go into Eretz Yisroel but rather die in the Midbar where they would spend the next forty years. Korach knew that Moshe was the leader who should bring Bnei Yisroel into Eretz Yisroel, but that was no longer the plan. For this extended stay in the Midbar they needed a new kind of leadership of which Korach thought he was the most worthy.
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