“Every controversy that is for the sake of heaven will endure, but one that is not for the sake of heaven will not endure”
Chapter 16 of Bamidbar (the book of Numbers) registers what the Jewish foundational literature considers one of the most subversive moments in the long series of protests of Israel against Moses in the wilderness. A confrontational Levite by the name of Korah, together with a number of followers, questions Moses and Aaron’s authority: “They combined […]