Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In the previous parashah, God sent us to dispose ourselves (ארץ)1 to what oppressively draws in from experience (Canaan).2 Failing that, God encouraged us to repetitively strive (TsiTsiT)3 to draw in the basic facts encountered in experience (כנפי בגדים).4,5 As the mental faculty that festers over things in experience (Qorahh),6 a behavior of narrowing in upon things so as to gain clarity (Yitshar)7, a behavior of intently maintaining a visual fix on a scene (Q’hat),8 a behavior of clinging to a scene so as to generate an awareness of many startling things (Levi)9 – Qorahh’s motives were noble. Along with an act of repetitively going over a scene (Datan),10 an augmented effort to take notice of things (Aviram),11 and a great capacity, a behavior of going to extremes (On ben Pelet)12 – Qorahh was taking up (information) from the scene. In so doing, he and the behaviors associated with him were challenging the mental faculty that draws out particular things from a midst the many stirring things encountered in experience (Moshe)13 and one’s ability to repetitively bring things to light (Aharon).14 While on the peshat, Qorahh appears to be vying for leadership, allegorically he is challenging Moshe and Aharon to process the vast amount of data that he and the behaviors associated with him have attained from the scene.