Parshas Korach: Everybody is Unique

Korach was Moshe's uncle. Amram was Korach's brother, and Amram had Moshe and Aharon.

   Korach thought that, based on what happened with the spies, that Mitzvos are the main point, and only learning Torah isn't enough. Meaning, that you actually have to do the Mitzvos, and not only learn about the Mitzvos, then everybody is the same. What's the difference whether or not I keep Kosher, or you keep Kosher? You could be more Machpid (strict) than me, but we're still keeping Kosher!

   The answer is, is that even though Mitzvos are important, we still need the Torah to tell us exactly how to do the Mitzvos, and it serves as an inspiration to help us with our Avodas Hashem.

   Still, the obvious question still remains: Korach was Moshe's uncle. Amram was Korach's brother, and Amram had Moshe and Ahron. Why would he want to rebel against his nephew?

   This, actually, makes his rebellion stronger! He thought that, by being Moshe's uncle, he would have more of a right to be the leader of the Jewish people, more than Moshe himself!

Now about the people who joined the rebellion, we see that Dasson, and Averam joined it, and not only that, but On also did. Plus, Korach had 250 men who joined too.

But when we see that Moshe rebuked the rebels for joining, we see he only rebuked Dossen and Averam, the 250 men, but not On! Why?

We see from here the power a woman has with her husband. On did join the rebellion but when it actually came to the time to carry the act out, he was asleep! It turned out, that when On's wife heard that her husband joined Korach, she tried to convince him not to go. When it didn't work, she got him drunk, put him to sleep, and stood by his bed uncovering her hair.

When Korach and his 250 men came, they saw her hair uncovered, so they turned their heads away, and went back, thus, On didn't come to the rebellion.

  We see the opposite with Korach's wife.  She actually encouraged  Korach with his rebellion, and she got punished because of it.

 Because of the whole commotion with the rebellion, Moshe told everybody to go to the Mishkan themselves, give a Korban, and see what would happen.  If it gets excepted, then they are right, and are fit to be the leaders.  If not ... then they will die like Aharon's sons.

 Dason and Averam backed out because of that, and left the rebellion, because they realized that this wasn't a good idea. We even see the same thing with Korach's sons. We see later on in the Torah, in Parshas Pinchas, that Korach's sons regretted being in the rebellion. But Chussidius, in Leketi Sichos, explains, that they did not have the courage to actually stop doing it.

   In the end, they got swallowed up by the earth, so it looked like they died, but really Hashem kept them alive underground the whole time until the generation of the rebellion died out.

    We also see something seemingly unusual from Moshe. The Torah says Moshe thought that they believed that everybody in Bnei Yesroal should all be like one group, and all be Kohanim. But once Moshe realized it was actually a rebellion, he Davened to Hashem that Korach's Korban should not be accepted. 

    That seems little strange, doesn't it? If it was somebody else, well then fine. But Moshe Davens for everybody, even the Rashaim, so how come now he says that Korach's Korban should not be accepted?

We see, that Moshe saw that since they were rebelling, there was no way Hashem would accept the Korban, and Korach would for sure die, plus everybody else. So Moshe Davened to Hashem not to accept the Korban.

Moshe in the meantime, begged Korach the whole night not to do this. But Korach didn't listen, and in the end, as we see the revolution failed. And Korach met his doom.

Ekir: 

By making everybody in the "same league" we actually prevent growth from happening. Everybody has their own way of thinking. By saying that you want everybody to be in one group, is combining all those things into one. It wouldn't work out, everybody would think another way and disagree with each other.

You can only boil water in a pot. You can't put water on fire. It wouldn't work, you have to have a pot separating the two.