Parsha Poster #38 – Korach: Earthly appetitesAnd they assembled themselves together against Mo

Parsha Poster #38 – Korach: Earthly appetites

And they assembled themselves together against Moshe and against Aharon, and said to them: ‘You take too much upon yourself, since if the whole congregation is holy, and God is among them; why do you lift up yourselves above the community of God?’ … And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who were with Korach, and all their possessions. And they and all their possessions  went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the community.
— Num. 16:3, 32-33

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Seeking Change

Can there never be change
to the iron-clad order?

If you were not born
in the right social group
will your longing to serve
be directly discounted?
May you never rebel
nor challenge authority;
is ability sidelined
in favor of caste?
If you have grown up
an outsider, other;
a woman, a convert or
openly gay,
must you forfeit your dreams,
your loftiest yearnings

or be wholly consumed
in darkening depths?

Elizabeth Topper lives in Jerusalem with her husband Jonathan and they are blessed with five sons and two grandchildren. Her early love of Torah was nurtured by her parents and manifests itself also in Hebrew calligraphy and paper cutting. She composes at least one poem a week derived from the parasha and the chagim, which can be found at parashapoems.wordpress.com.