Parshat Korach, ego and when to pursue peace with your rivals

Waiting for the other guy to apologize first? Sometimes we have to learn from Moses and take the first step. Rabbi Simcha Hochbaum talks about Parshat Korach and the connection to Hebron, when we all realize we're from the same family.
Sometimes the higher we get, the holier we get, the harder it is to really distinguish.
To distinguish between something bad versus good. It's much easier to distinguish between Holy and the Holy of Holies
This Shabbat, we have the big fight between Korach and Moshe Rabeinu. Korach, the head of the Children of Levi and the Children of Kehat. Those who carried the Aron throughout the desert challenges Moshe Rabeinu’s leadership and Aharon his brother as a Kohain.
And Korach wants to uproot and take over.
At the end Korach ultimately doesn't get Aharon’s position. But Korach at the end also loses his own position as being the leader of the tribe of Levi.
Am Yisrael has been stuck in Parshat Korach for 2,000 years. We’re always filled with machloket and many, many times it often disguises itself in the name of le’Shem Shalayim, that we’re doing it for ideological reasons. We’re doing it for the sake of heaven.
Despite Moshe Rabeinu feeling threatened and challenged, the passuk tells us tells Vayakom Moshe vayelech el Datan v’Aviram. Moshe Rabeinu goes himself to the tent of Datan and Aviram. And there he tries to appease these two rabble rousers who are trying to challenge his authority.
He tries to be mefayes to them and make peace with them, and somehow reconcile with them and despite them saying, lo naaleh, we're not going to come up to you. Moshe goes to them, to try to find that good point.
A lot of times were waiting for someone to take the first step. If they apologize to me, then
I'll accept. A lot of times families are torn apart, communities are torn apart.
Everyone's waiting for the other one to make the first step. Let's learn from Moshe Rabeinu the greatest of the great, the prophet of all prophets, who forwent his honor and his shame to bring peace. With many mitzvot we have to wait for them to come to us.
But at the end our mitzvot Bakesh Shalom Verodfehu, we have to seek it out. We have to pursue it. We have to try to bring the reconciliation.
The privilege and the zehut of Hebron, Korach was dividing, Hebron is the hibor. When we realize we’re all coming from the same source of Abraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Sarah, Rivka and Leah.
We should be able to make that connection and the unity of all factions within Am Yisrael and eventually to the whole world.
Shabbat Shalom.
Peace unto Israel.