Why Korach's Revolt Against Aaron Was Truly Against God

(Numbers 16:11:) "THEREFORE YOU AND ALL YOUR COMPANY ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD." This dissension that you are making against us is nothing other than against the Holy One, blessed be He. A parable: It is like a king who had many servants. He wished to make one of them a freedman, to give him a branch, and he went further and made him a senator. His fellows rose up against him. If he himself had made himself a freedman and seized that greatness for himself, they would have rightly risen up against him. But now that his master made him so, whoever rises up against him is not rising up against him, but against his master. So too did Moses say to them: If my brother Aaron had taken the priesthood for himself, you would have done well to complain against him. But the Holy One, blessed be He, gave it to him, for the kingship and the greatness are His. Whoever rises up against my brother Aaron is not disputing with Aaron, but with the Holy One, blessed be He. Therefore it is written (Numbers 16:11): "AND AARON, WHAT IS HE THAT YOU MURMUR AGAINST HIM?" Come and see the piety of Aaron the Righteous. At the moment when Moses poured the anointing oil upon Aaron, Aaron trembled and was terrified. He said to Moses his brother: Perhaps I was not worthy to be anointed with the anointing oil, and I have committed a trespass and become liable to excision (karet), as it is said (Exodus 30:32): "UPON HUMAN FLESH IT SHALL NOT BE POURED." Therefore the Holy One, blessed be He, testified concerning him (Psalms 133:1-3): "BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT etc.; LIKE THE GOODLY OIL [UPON THE HEAD] RUNNING DOWN UPON THE BEARD, THE BEARD OF AARON etc.; LIKE THE DEW OF HERMON etc." He compared the anointing oil to the dew of Hermon: just as the dew of Hermon has no trespass in it, so too the anointing oil that was upon the head of Aaron has no trespass in it. Therefore it is written: "GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD."