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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Longing for Leadership: a lesson from a bat mitzvah

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In my blog entry " Wrestling with Rebels ," I showed some of the different ways that interpreters have treated Korach's rebell...

Friday, June 7, 2013

Wrestling with Rebels

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Tomorrow, my student Abby K becomes bat mitzvah at Temple Beth Shalom in Melrose . She will read from Parshat Korach and comment on it, and...

Sunday, September 2, 2012

The Best Use of Authority is to Share It

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The best use of authority is to share it. In previous posts, I've shown how the story of Korach contains a lot more than a challenge t...

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Challenges to Authority: How Do We Respond?

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I said I would return to Korach “soon,” and that’s true—on a historical scale! Yes, it’s a month later, and I am still thinking about wh...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Building Rebellion In

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I really enjoyed David Matthews’ reading of Korach that I told you about on Saturday. David pointed out that when Korach and company ...

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