19 myths
Korah's fortune required three hundred mules just to carry the keys. The sages traced it to a hoard Joseph built in Egypt and never claimed for himself.
Two men followed Moses with opposition from Egypt to the edge of the grave. They are the first to resist in Exodus and the last to resist in Numbers.
Korah challenged Moses in public and Moses asked for one night before answering. The reason tells you something about how Moses understood divine judgment.
Moses had set the incense test for morning. Korah spent that night building a coalition larger than Moses had ever faced before.
Korah dressed 250 leaders in pure blue cloaks, mocked the single thread, and watched the earth open its mouth and swallow them whole.
Korah did not start his rebellion with a speech. He started it with a story about a poor widow that made every listener hate Moses on the spot.
A widow with two daughters loses everything to priestly law, and Korah turns her tears into a weapon against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Korah saw Samuel shining in his bloodline and read the vision as permission. He reached for the fire-pan, and the fire reached back.
A Bedouin showed a Talmudic sage the fissures where the earth swallowed Korah alive. Every thirty days Korah surfaces and cries out that Moses was right.
Moses walked to warn Datan and Aviram before the earth opened. They would not come out to meet him. He gave the warning and left them to the ground.
Aaron's priesthood was bracketed by two catastrophes -- the Golden Calf and Korah's rebellion. Both threatened him. Both failed to destroy him.
David sings hatred for the congregation of evildoers in Psalm 26, and the rabbis name the congregation: it is Korah's, which gathered in the shape of holiness.
Psalm 45 opens with lilies, and the rabbis heard a rescue story: a woman spends herself to pull three condemned men out of the machinery of death.
Korah forced his way toward the altar and sank, while his sons were brought near the courts he tried to storm.
When the ground split to swallow Korah, his sons felt a thought of repentance rise in them and turned aside. They survived and wrote eleven psalms.
When plague swept the camp after Korah, Aaron grabbed his censer and ran into the gap between the dying and the living. Incense held death back.
Three hundred mules carried the keys to Korah's treasure houses. The earth opened and took him. His sons were spared and composed psalms from inside Sheol.
After Korah's rebellion, twelve tribal rods lay in the Tabernacle overnight. By morning one had burst into almond blossoms and ripe fruit.
The earth opened beneath their father and they were left suspended on a ledge inside Gehinnom, and from there they composed the psalms of unshakeable faith.
