Korach | קורח | “Korah”

This Week's Torah Portion: Korach- Korah

TaNak: Numbers 16: 1-18:32

Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14-12:22

Brit Chadashah: 2 Timothy 2:8-21

ויקח קרח בן־יצהר בן־קהת בן־לוי ודתן ואבירם בני אליאב ואון בן־פלת בני ראובן׃

The main themes of this torah portion are:

Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On took men and rose up before Moshe with a number of the people of Israel (250 chiefs of the congregation; well-known men). They assembled together 

against Moshe and Aharon and said, "You have gone too far! Everyone here is holy and the 

LORD is among them. Why do you set yourself above the assembly of Yahweh?" When Moshe 

heard them, he fell on his face and said to Korah and the others, "In the morning, Yahweh will 

show who is his, who is holy, and will bring him near to him." Moshe instructed Korah and his 

company to take censers and put incense on them before Yahweh the next day. Dathan and 

Abiram were mad a Moshe and they refused to come up. Moshe asked Yahweh not to respect 

their offerings. Every man took his censer and put fire in it and laid the incense on them and 

stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting. The glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation. Then Moshe took the people away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. The 

ground split apart and the earth swallowed up the wicked men, their households, and all that 

belonged to them. Fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering incense 

to Yahweh. Eleazar took the censers and hammered them out as a covering for the altar. Yahweh said only Aharon's descendants could burn incense before him. The next day, the people 

began to complain again. A plague had begun among the people because 

of their complaining. 14, 700 people died in the plague. Yahweh instructed 

the people to get the 12 tribe's staffs and write their names on their staff 

and Aharon's name on the staff of Levi. Aaron's staff sprouted and put forth 

buds and blossoms and bore ripe almonds. They looked at their staffs.  

Yahweh reminded the people of the duties of the priests and Levites.  

Copy work from MAMALAND:

http://www.4shared.com/document/8F1F-niw/Copywork_Parshas_Korach.html

you have to download it. it is a pdf file.  she does a really good job.
http://ronypony.blogspot.ca/2010/10/miscellaneous-hebrewenglish-copywork.html#parsha

Worksheets for the torah portion:

http://cohencubs.ning.com/group/weeklyparshat/forum/topics/korach-korah-1

http://messianicfamilyfellowship.com/GO/torah-portion/parsha-for-kids/

Coloring pages for younger kids:

http://media.aish.com/documents/Coloring%20Book%20-%20Parshat%20Korach%20(English).pdf

Parasha for Young kids:

http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/bamidbar/korach3.htm

Crafts for kids:

http://www.challahcrumbs.com/parshaCrafts_Torah%20Study.php?artId=75

http://ronypony.blogspot.com/2012/06/easy-parsha-craft-for-korach.html


Recipe ideas:

In this week’s Torah reading, Parshat Korach, God commands each tribe to provide a rod and only the tribe chosen to become the priests would miraculously sprout overnight. Only Aaron’s rod, representing the tribe of Levi, “put forth buds, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.” (Bamidbar 17:8). (According to this Torah Treat, some rods remained simple while the others sprouted different colors!)

You will need:

Pretzel rods

Chocolate for melting

Flowered shaped sprinkles

Other sprinkles are optional

Melt chocolate and dip into chocolate.  Let your kids have fun decorating!