{"id":2576,"date":"2023-06-25T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2023-06-25T07:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:32:58","slug":"parsha-korach-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cKorach\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ask most people who have even just a bit of knowledge of the Bible who &#8220;Korah,&#8221; was, and you&#8217;ll hear the response: rebellion. And what happened to him is almost as well-known: he was taken alive &#8216;into the pit&#8217; as the earth opened up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This parsha (Korach, Numbers chapters 16 through 18), and the associated haftorah, from I Samuel 12, is also essentially &#8216;segment two&#8217; of what Mark sometimes calls the &#8216;Demonocracy series,&#8217; from the Bible. And that, too, seems to connect to the larger topic of Rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the story itself, in the Erev Shabbat overview and reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2576-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SSM-6-23-23-Korach-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SSM-6-23-23-Korach-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\">https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/SSM-6-23-23-Korach-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether they complained, murmured, and even rebelled, or not, the &#8216;mixed multitude&#8217; had a leader in Moshe like no other people in history had before them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Korach and his rebellion without question demonstrated some characteristics and behavior that was a precursor to the virtually identical lies we still see today. Still, though, it wasn&#8217;t a polar opposite. They wanted power for themselves, but still claimed to want to worship the same YHVH that guided them in the wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is at least part of what is so different this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the Opposite of Moses?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/WT-CooH-6-24-23-Korach-What-is-the-OPPOSITE-of-Moses-podcast-2x.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined full two-part teaching is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-korach-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-3\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-korach-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2023 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Korach,&#8221; Numbers chapter 16 through 18 and related, from I Samuel 11 through Romans 13. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,151,11,29],"tags":[46,26,88,16,104,1852,249,94,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}