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Ethan Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Villanova University. The story of Korah (Numbers 16), who gives his name to this week’s parsha,
A brief passage in this week’s Torah portion, while enumerating a census, adds a side note: “But Korach’s children did not die” — ” וּבְנֵי קֹרַח
How did Korach commit such villainy that his whole household was swallowed alive by the earth, and yet his children and descendants became some of the tradition’s most creative, dedicated, and productive artists?