קֹרַח - Korach

I'll try to open up the issue that the portion of Korach is bringing to us and to look at it inwardly and outwardly at the same time because it speaks about the relationship and the tension between the circle light and the light of the line. So, in a way, Korach’s complaint–or one can say, argument–is for the democracy of sanctity. The claim is that all are holy, and there's no need to maintain or to retain a hierarchy.

So, basically, it suggests that having some spirit of prophecy, or a holy ghost that endowed him with prophecy, he can see the future, and definitely he can see one of his transmigrations–one of the appearances of the figure of his transmigration, as the prophet Shmuel. This stood by the argument of having not a hierarchy of authority but to spread authority more in a cyclic and circle-like position. This is of course not possible while we are inside the 6,000 years of reformation because reformation suggests that there is something to reform, meaning there is something to receive and to adjust.

So, inside the concept of reformation there is hierarchy, or some knowing and adapting oneself to that kind of knowing and nature and quality. So, in a way, working in line suggests authority and suggests that someone knows better than you, and there is a higher and lower. But the ideal or the future picture is of a circle. An historical example would be the way kingdoms were established before Arthur, before the round table. The round table of Arthur is actually the same idea of ruling–not a religious one, and not having to do with holiness–but having to do with hierarchy and authority.

So it seems that both sides, which are called Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai, need to find a middle line in order not to cancel the ideal or to cancel the possibility of the end of reformation, and to be able to retain the importance, dynamic, and adhesion to the line as well. So, it represents itself inside our work as left and right, another layer of understanding.

So, why there is such a harshness, one can say, to the seemingly just claim of Korach not only has to do with the intention or where it's coming from. It's quite clear that there is a personal agenda behind it. But, it's deeper than that, and it's more fundamental because it speaks about wishing to cancel the left or to call the left the ruler of the middle line or the ruler of the future.