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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 augme