קרח

And according to the Maharsha, he did not wish to nullify all the tzitzit from a garment that is entirely techelet; rather, he wished to nullify the casting of the techelet thread in a garment that is entirely techelet, that they should need only the white threads.

And further, behold it is stated in the Zohar HaKadosh (Parashat Pinchas, p. 222b): “Every chulyah is threefold, and every chulyah is triangular. And every triangle is from the side of holiness; this is what is written, ‘Holiness to you shall be threefold,’ and Yisrael are threefold, because of ‘And thirds over all of it’ (Exodus 14:4); for tzitzit are from the side of the middle pillar, which is the third of three; every word is threefold, from the sides; every chulyah is comprised of three; and every thing is threefold—Yud-Heh-Vav is threefold, and the Patriarchs; ‘Holiness to you shall be threefold,’ and it is threefold in the pillar; the wrappings are threefold—this is Shekhinah; ‘daughter’—two; ‘they are’—Shin from Shabbat; that is, the wings of the Patriarchs that are in the middle; a single chulyah comprised of three; the techelet that is in the tzitzit.”

And the Gra, z"i"a, wrote in his commentary: “A single daughter—the chulyah of techelet that is in the tzitzit”: that is to say, the chulyah is white—three wrappings, the three Patriarchs; and afterward a chulyah of techelet as well. At first it is not at all ‘a chulyah’; rather, thus one must say: “a single ‘daughter’—techelet that is in the tzitzit.” It appears that we do not read “chulyah” there; and more [so], “comprised of techelet that is in the tzitzit,” and it is the fourth thread according to the opinion of the Raavad; and as I wrote there, that this is the main [view], and likewise it is the main [view], comprised of three white threads, corresponding to the letter dalet in the Name; and thus it is in my Sifrei.

And according to this version, the Gra explained that in the time when there is techelet, they make a chulyah of white in which there are three wrappings—three Patriarchs; and afterward he makes a chulyah of techelet thus. These are in the aspect of the Patriarchs, and this is in the aspect of the Shekhinah, which includes the three Patriarchs.

And afterward he brought a version to delete at the conclusion of the statement the word “chulyah,” and to explain that “a single daughter” refers to the techelet. And if so, the intent of the statement is that the Shekhinah includes all three.

Upon this, the Gra explains according to the method of the Raavad in Hilkhot Tzitzit, that he holds that in the time when there is techelet, the manner of the division of the threads is: three white threads and one techelet, which are four threads in tzitzit, and by their doubling in the folding they become eight; they are ordinary for the garment. The one techelet, through the doubling, is made into two; in such a manner that three quarters are white and a quarter is of the techelet. And the Gra explains that this too is in the aspect mentioned above: that the three white threads are the three Patriarchs, that is, Chagat; and the techelet is Malkhut, and it includes them all.

Thus, Korach, who wished to nullify the techelet thread on every corner, wished, as it were, to separate the Malkhut from Chagat (which includes all of Z"A—see in the kavanot of Sefirat HaOmer), literally like the deed of the generation of the Dispersion; and it becomes for the reason there, of what they said about the generation of the Dispersion, “and let us make for ourselves a name.” Therefore it is called “Korach and his congregation,” as is explained.