By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
In Bamidbar, Perek Tes Zayin, posuk lamed bais, the posuk tells us that the earth opened its mouth and swallowed Korach and his people and their houses.
 
There is well known rule in the gemara in Kesubos, daf lamed zayin, amud alef that says that when a person is deserving of two punishments, death and a requirement to pay money, we say that the person is only punished with the death sentence and is exempt from paying the money. This is so since a person can only be punished with one thing for one aveirah. If this is so, why were the houses and all the money of Korach and his following also swallowed up in the earth?
 

Yahrtzeits, Shabbos, 30 Sivan

Israel will be destroyed in half an hour if the United States attacks Iran, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on Monday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Weeks of tensions culminated last month in US President Donald Trump’s last-minute decision to call off planned strikes on Iran after Tehran downed an American drone.
Washington also accused Iran of being behind attacks on ships in the Gulf, which Tehran denies.
“If the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel‘s lifespan,” Mojtaba Zolnour, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy commission said on Monday, according to Mehr.
Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has backing from liberal voters, public unions and a national Democratic party agitating for progressive values in the age of Donald Trump. Foes within his own party may have higher-octane fuel: residents’ disgust with some of the highest taxes in the U.S.
Murphy signed a $38.7 billion budget on Sunday, avoiding a government shutdown that could have cost him politically. The plan increases spending to make a record $3.8 billion pension payment and boosts funding for property-tax relief, public schools and the cash-strapped New Jersey Transit agency. Still, the governor lost his fight for a millionaire’s tax with the more-moderate Democrats who control New Jersey’s Senate and Assembly.

The world’s richest can’t give away their money fast enough – but that’s not stopping them from trying.
Warren Buffett said Monday he plans to donate $3.6 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to five charities – one of his largest gifts ever – while Walmart heir Jim Walton gave away $1.2 billion of the retailer’s shares last week. And Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus said this weekend he’s planning to gift almost his entire $4.5 billion fortune before he dies.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said his country bears responsibility for the recent drowning deaths of a father and his toddler daughter who had been attempting to cross into the United States, saying that security and economic hardships he inherited are driving people to make the perilous journey.
The shocking photograph of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 2-year-old daughter, Valeria, lying face down and embracing on a shallow bank of the Rio Grande provoked a renewed backlash against stringent Trump administration policies last week.
President Donald Trump, in turn, blamed Democrats.

The head of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad said Monday his country was renewing ties with Oman and had an “unprecedented opportunity” for a thaw with other Arab states.
“Just recently, renewal of formal relations with Oman was declared and the establishment of a representative office of the (Israeli) foreign ministry in that country,” Yossi Cohen told a security conference in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
“That is only the visible tip of a much broader secret effort,” he said, adding that aside from Israel’s historic treaties with Jordan and Egypt, other Arab countries had discreetly joined “the states of peace, some of them in an unseen manner”.

A new study by Europe’s leading professional association for neurologists has found that survivors of the Holocaust suffered long-term damage of their brain structures as a result of their trauma, with mental health problems being passed down to their children and grandchildren.
The study, issued on Sunday at the 5th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) — an umbrella body for neurology researchers and professionals across the continent — stated that “surviving the Holocaust had a life-long psychological and biological effect with grey matter reduction affecting the parts of their brain responsible for stress response, memory, motivation, emotion, learning, and behavior.”

Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport announced the highest level of emergency alertness on Monday, dispatching over a hundred ambulances to the tarmac ahead of the emergency landing of a plane carrying 152 passengers.
The Israeli Air Force deployed jets to escorted the Electra Air 737 flight whose tire exploded upon takeoff in Cologne earlier in the afternoon.
The plane landed safely at Ben Gurion over an hour after the emergency was declared.
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Last month, the Israeli government responded to President Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty of the Golan Heights by naming a soon-to-be-built town in the Golan Heights after the president – Ramat Trump (Trump Heights).
Now, Chabad is honoring President Trump with a special printing of its Tanya, with bochurim from Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim Tzfat joining Chabad’s Golan branch, led by Rabbi Sholom Ber Hertzel, in setting up a printing press at the future site of Ramat Trump to print 100 copies of the Tanya.