P arshas Korach
“…and Dasan and Aviram went out standing upright at the entrances of their tents together with their wives their children and their infants” (Bamidbar 16:27).
The Midrash Tanchumah comments: See how serious is machlokes. Beis din doesn’t punish below the age of 13 and Beis Din shel Maalah from the age of 20 but here even the babies were lost.
Why were the babies punished if it was the adults who sinned? (Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz Sichos Mussar)
Camp was the great melting pot of my youth. From all over the country girls would descend on this stretch of wilderness in the Catskills eager to blaze new trails together.
