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  • Korach: Humour can be dangerous!

    Transcript Humour is wonderful, but humour can also be dangerous. The Talmud recognises the power of humour and therefore recommends that whenever one is giving a talk, a presentation or
  • Korach: Who has the most important role in our Synagogue services?

    Transcript Who has the most important role in our synagogue services? Right at the end of Parshat Korach, the Torah gives us details of ‘maaser’ – the tithe that was
  • Korach: Something extraordinary happened in our living room!

    Transcript: Something extraordinary happened in my living room. My wife Valerie has always wanted to grow Flame Lilies. This is because the Flame Lily is the national flower of Zimbabwe
  • D’var Torah: Korach

    How would you define a kosher argument? The Mishna helps us. In Pirkei Avot – the Ethics of the Fathers – we are introduced to the concept of a ‘machloket
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Korach

    In conflict there are no absolute winners… What’s the most unfair accusation recorded in the Torah? I believe that the answer is in parashat Korach. On the day after the
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Korach

    Who turned On off? At the beginning of Parashat Korach, On, the son of Peleth is presented to us as being one of the key agitators who supported Korach in
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Korach

    In his D’var Torah this week, the Chief Rabbi answers the question: What made Korach do something so crazy? What made Korach do something so crazy? Even the most egotistically
  • D’var Torah: Parashat Korach

    In his D’var Torah for this week, the Chief Rabbi explains how a miracle involving almonds can be read as a symbolic guide for overcoming difference and achieving peace in
  • Chukat: What the world’s cleverest person couldn’t understand

    Transcript What was the one thing that the cleverest person on earth couldn’t understand? According to our tradition, King Solomon, who was cleverer than anyone else, could not work out
  • Vayeitzei: Making the journey count as much as the destination

    The Chief Rabbi’s weekly insight for Vayeitzei Why isn’t’ there a parsha called ‘Yaakov’?  We have six parshiot named after people: Noach, Chayei Sara, Yitro, Korach, Balak and Pinchas. This