Korach

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Korach

Korach’s gang was swallowed up

and a plague beset the Am

but his influence then ended

unlike Dahtan and Aviram.

“The land of milk and honey”

to mitzrayim they applied

heaping scorn upon a holy land

disparaged by the spies.

I’d have strapped them to a camel

and sent them back down south

and, if they lived, to then be drowned

in the Nile’s murky mouth.

“Tov ha’aretz meod meod”

Calev ben Yephunneh pleaded

and to any Jew whose worth his salt

this imperative is heeded.

One might have grounds to live in galus

mishpacha, parnassa, learning

but do not speak ill of the land

its our soul that you are spurning.