hey, hope u guys aren’t fed up with me yet…………. so here goes it
Today i shall be positive…..yeah right!!!
2 very very interesting details are hidden in the entire korach story, 2 details that totally go under the radar, 2 details that are overlooked cuz they actually point the whole story in another direction. huh?
1st off- Elazar the son of aharon is commanded to take the machtos and deal with them cuz they they r holy. huh? holy? why in the world would korach and his cronies machtos be holy? they just did a huge aveyra with them, where in the world is the kdusha coming from?
2ndly- Moshe goes out of his way to ask hashem to not take notice to korachs offering, once again, huh???? why would moshe have to ask for such a ridiculous thing? isn’t it obvious that hashem won’t listen to them? they r reshaim, trying to overthrow moshe, MOSHE, the best leader the jewish ppl have ever had, why would moshe have to waste his breath to ask hashem to not turn to korachs side?
Here is why- in essence what korach and his cronies were asking for was spiritual, they were asking for a better ruchni position, true the request was totally baseless, and for the wrong reasons, and not spiritually backed, BUT at the end of the day..it was spiritual.
Hashem always sees the FULL picture, and if there is a bit of good mixed in with the bad, he will take notice of that bit, and act upon it, and so that little RUCHNI aspect of their request is what caused the machtos to have kedusha, and the SPIRITUAL dot which was involved in the whole episode is what “forced” moshe to make a mention (i am not saying that if it wasn’t for moshe’s request that would mean that we would have been led into israel by korach, yet it was enough to get the honorable mention).
Isn;t that nice? hashem always searches for even the smallest dot of good in all our bad. sweet no? come on, give me some credit……i was actually pointed towards the other side!
We do many things daily which seems to be the most altruistic, sweet, thoughtful, spiritual actions a person can make, and we bank on the fact that no one really knows what we r REALLY thinking, and no one will ever figure out why we REALLY did what we just did (i was gonna give some examples…….. but there might be some impressionable minds out there), problem is we seem to forget that hashem is out there, and he sees, he knows, he keeps the score, and……..he is actually in power to act upon it as well.
Just look what korach’s little “good” did, and you will realize just what your little “bad” can do. U always gotta look at the details, look into yourself time and time again, be honest with yourself. Why ru REALLY doing what ur doing? and only once u r convinced that u r really doing it for the right reasons……………JUST DO IT [all ye annoying ones- i am not knocking “mitoch shelo lishma ba lishma”, i am NOT saying that u shouldn’t do a mitzva unless it is 100% pure, i am just saying that ur fooling only yourself when u think u can get away with something like that!]