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Korach was angry at the appointment of Aharon and his sons as kohanim. He demanded: “Why do you exalt yourselves over the congregation of Hashem?” Moshe’s response is somewhat enigmatic. “… I have not taken a single donkey of theirs, nor have I wronged even one of them.” While the simple explanation says I have not gained economically in any way, the reference to a donkey to symbolize that idea seems odd. What could Moshe have been trying to say on a deeper level? As Rabbi Dovid Hofstadter points out, Korach’s complaint was more about cronyism, about Moshe’s appointing Aharon as Kohen gadol and Elitzaphan ben Uziel as head of the Kehas families. Why did this anger Moshe so?
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