On National Leadership

1 Tammuz 5785

Rosh Chodesh Bet

Erev Shabbat Kodesh - Parashat Korach

The Stone Edition Chumash Commentary:

In contrast to earlier occasions when the people complained about specific problems - such as a lack of food or water, or the need for a "god" to take Moses' place as an intermediary between God and Israel - in this Sidrah, there is an outright rebellion, an attempt to overthrow Moses and Aaron as the leaders of the nation. The leader of the rebellion was their cousin and fellow Levite, Korach. As is typical of would-be usurpers who must attract a popular following to succeed, Korah posed as a champion of the masses and tried to discredit Moses.

Haftarat Korach:

Korach's rebellion against Moses was sparked by his vision of a nation in which every man would be a king unto himself. Moses understood that such a situation would quickly deteriorate into anarchy. An authority must rule or lead the individuals - great though each may be in his own right - and forge them into a cohesive unit capable of fulfilling its national destiny.

And that authority must be the Torah, for the Torah is the word of God....

At the End of Days, most of the leaders will be from the Erev Rav. Yehudit claimed that at the end, the entire Israeli government would be made up of the Erev Rav.

...There is a difference between not being religious and going to war against Torah values. A lot of secular people never had the proper Torah education, or worse, they had an anti-Torah upbringing. It is difficult to undo negative propaganda later in life, if a person ever gets the opportunity to even try.

The Erev Rav are at war with Torah values, not just on their own behalf, but on behalf of society as a whole. It is not good enough that they have built a wall between them and truth. They have to build that wall between Torah and everyone else as well, in whatever way they can.

Do the Erev Rav people know they are Erev Rav? Does it really matter? Even misguided people can lead the world towards destruction, and do so much damage to a lot of good people and things along the way. They have to be stopped at all cost, and it will have to be up to God to later determine, when they stand in judgment before Him, just how responsible they are for their actions.

...IN EVERY generation certain individuals rise to the top of society, for different reasons. Some will be righteous, some nefarious. Some will seem like the latter but might actually belong to the former, and vice versa.

Of these four categories of societal “celebrities,” it is safe to assume that the Erev Rav is not among the righteous, and the misperceived righteous. Morality is just not their thing. They can be among the nefarious, but that might interfere with their scheme, since people will be very wary of all they say and do.

The Vilna Gaon said that the Erev Rav works through deception, and there is no greater deception than passing oneself as a righteous, and being anything but that. And some do such a good job of this that they actually delude themselves into believing that they are every bit as good as they tell others they are.

This is why, as the GR”A said, it will be the most difficult of all wars to fight. It is one thing to know who the enemy is, but it is entirely different to have an enemy who poses as your friend, and who claims to be out for your best interest. By the time the truth is out, their target is dead or severely disabled.

Even [worse] is not even knowing that the war is on, and that such an enemy is fighting against you. Or it could be knowing it, but being unable to convince others of it so that they can prepare themselves for battle and possibly survive. How many times has mankind fallen prey to the Erev Rav, including the Torah community, and paid dearly as a result?

In the long run, it doesn’t matter. Few learn history, or take it to heart. Even fewer pay much attention to the inclusion of the Erev Rav at the [exodus from Egypt], and what it meant to the journey to freedom. And even fewer yet know what the Zohar and great rabbis of the past predicted about the Erev Rav at the end of days, and the grave threat they will pose to the world on so many different levels.

Instead, they choose to listen to billions of people who lack the background to truly have a relevant opinion. They choose to hope for the best while a scenario for the worst unfolds. TheErevRavcounts on this, and they build upon it.

The good news is, God runs the world, and will deal with the Erev Rav, as He always has in the end. He will do away with them one way or another. The not-so-good news is that many may go down with their ship, until He does. So what are you going to do about it? (Source)

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“The Erev Rav delay the redemption much more than all the nations of the world”

The above quote is from the Sefer HaZohar, section Ra’aya Me’heimna. It’s a chilling testament that there’s a sect of evil that is actively doing everything in their power to prevent the Geulah (final redemption).  (Source Unknown)

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The Greatest Spiritual Battle

As the Kol HaTor explains, the primary mission of this generation is to “break and remove the strength of the Erev Rav.” This force is described as the k’lipah (negative spiritual shell) of Armelius the Evil, working to separate the two moshiachs—Moshiach ben Yosef and Moshiach ben David. The nature of the Erev Rav’s power lies in deception, employing subterfuge to undermine Israel’s spiritual mission:

“The war against the Erev Rav is the most difficult and bitterest of all” (Kol HaTor, Chapter 2).

 

~ SHABBAT SHALOM & CHODESH TOV~