Dear Talmidot, Parents and Friends –

1)       This week at Midreshet Moriah

2)       Faculty Devar Torah – Rabbi Zvi Ron

3)       Mazel Tovs

4)       Mi She-Berach List

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This Week at Midreshet

We have some very special messages to share with you this week; Emotional, Inspirational and Insightful. We are sure you will be as inspired and affected as we were!

Read Rav Eitan's 5771 Preidah speech at:

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Read Alisa Schnitzer's 5771 Preidah Speech at:

http://www.midreshetmoriah.com/news/?id=378

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Don't Just Think It, Do It

Zvi Ron

In this week's parsha we read of the disastrous consequences of Korach's rebellion against the leadership of Moshe and Aharon. Korach and his followers were swallowed by the earth (16:31-33) or burned alive (16:35). Remarkably, Korach's own family was not destroyed. The Torah specifically states that the sons of Korach did not die (26:11). How is it, that Korach's own children did not join him in his rebellion?

The Gemara (Sanhedrin 110a) tells an interesting story about the sons of Korach. One time Rabbah bar Bar Chana was travelling with an Arab guide. The guide offered to show him the spot in the desert where Korach and his followers were swallowed up. He showed him two holes in the ground where smoke was coming out. The guide put some wet cotton on a spear, stuck it in the hole, and it came out charred. Rabbah listened at the holes and he heard people saying "Moshe and his Torah are true, and they (the rebels) are fakers." The Gemara explains that these are the sons of Korach, who have a high ledge in Gehinom that they stand on and pray. This is how Rav Saadya Gaon explains that the sons of Korach did not die; they were swallowed by the earth and not killed like the other rebels.

So were the sons of Korach rebels or not? Clearly they are not completely innocent; they were swallowed by the earth. Yet they were not punished as harshly as the other rebels.

Rashi (26:11) explains that at first Korach's sons were part of the rebellion, but during the conflict they "thought about doing teshuva in their hearts" so they were not punished like the others. If they would have acted on their thoughts, they would have been saved from punishment, but since they only thought about it and did not act, the sons of Korach were sentenced to a limbo like state, somewhere between life and death, Gehinom and this world.

The fate of the sons of Korach teaches us the idea that we must be courageous and follow what we know to be correct. It is not enough to feel something in our hearts or know something in our brains. We have to act on our convictions, and live according to the concepts that we believe in. If we do not, we will find ourselves in the situation of the sons of Korach, in a state of limbo forever.

Shabbat Shalom

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Mazel Tov! 

Engagements:

Dorya Jerusalem (08-09) and David Barth  

Yhi ratzon shetivnu bayit ne'eman bYisrael

Weddings:

Rochelle Lewin ('08-'09) and Asher Landaw

Jackie Green ('05-'06) and Stephen Moster

Ariela(Foyer) Feurstein Rudin (07-08) and Charlies Borgen  

Itta Remer (08-09, 09- 10) and Meir Graff

Batsheva Chapman (06-07) and Moshe Broder (Mazal Tov to sister Ayala Chapman 08-09)

Yhi ratzon shetivnu bayit ne'eman bYisrael

Birth:

Eileen (Chudow) ('96-'97)and Philip Weiss on the birth of a baby girl 

Karen (Wisotsky)('00-'01)and Josh Goldman on the birth of a baby girl

Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadla lTorah lChupa ulMa'asim tovim.

Birth:

Deena (Forman)('94-'95)and Uri Schechterman on the birth of baby boy

Tova (Rothman)('99-'00) and Adam Small on the birth of a son, Yair Shmuel

Yhi ratzon shetizku lgadlo lTorah lChupa ulMa'asim tovim. Kshem shenichnas lBrit kein yikanes lTorah lChupah ulMa'asim tovim.

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Mi SheBerach List

Please email midmoriah@gmail.com if there is a name you would like to add or remove!  

Shmuel ben Miriam-toddler whose cancer has returned (5/26/11)

Karen bat Lena - undergoing chemotherapy (5/4/11)

Faiga Leah bas Henya (5/3/11)

Chaim ben Chashka (3/3/2011) – diabetes complications 

Matityahu Yaakov ben Gittel Rivka (3/5/2011)

Tziporah Feiga Bat Sima Sheindel (2/26/2011)

Shira bat Deena Miriam – premature baby on a ventilator (2/19/2011)

Noa Batya bat Daniella Rut – 7 month old with leukemia (2/5/2011)

Leah Alona Bat Tziporah (2/5/2011)

Leora bat Sarah (2/5/2011)

Frimit bat Devorah (2/5/2011)

Rivah bat Jane (1/29/2011)

Amitai Yaakov ben Bracha - a 16 yr. old just diagnosed with leukemia (1/29/2011)

Dina Eta bat Chaya Tzippora Sheva (1/22/2011)

Aharon Yitzchak ben Deena Yehudis (1/6/2011)

Adi bat Zahavit (twin baby who is sick)

Reut bat Zahavit (twin baby who is sick)

Chaim Yissachar ben Chaya Mushkit (26 year old with 2 children, leukemia)

Shraga Feivel ben Sasha

Ari ben Rivka (young husband with brain tumor)

Inbal bat Nelya

Zacharia Kalman HaCohen ben Yael Margalit

Shai Ben Meital - 4 yr old with brain damage and seizures

Aviva Miriam bat Esther - 9 month old baby with cancer going through chemo

Tzipora Fayga Bat Sima Shaindel- 33 year old mother of 3 with Leukemia(9/19/2010)

Tzvi Ilan ben Gita (8/12/2010)

Chaya Tziporah Sheva bat Faiga (8/12/2010)

Chisha Bayla bat Miriam

Chaya Meira Mindel bat Chava Golda - Midreshet alumna with cancer

Refael ben Nomi- 10 month old baby who has meningitis

Avraham ben Elka (5/21/10)

Rivka Margalit bat Ita - 12 year old girl with a brain tumor (5/27/2010)

Rachel bat Re-ayah - mother of 7 with cancer that has spread

Batya Leah bat Sara - cancer

Noa Chaya bat Nava Yehudit - baby

Yehuda Moshe Yosef ben Miriam

Rayzel bat Rifka

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