Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parshat Pinchas 5760 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah, at the death of the community, at the consuming by fire of the fifty and two hundred men: they became a signal-of-warning. "The sound of your brother's blood . . ." Earth which has absorbed innocent blood takes revenge of her children. Said Rav Yehuda son of Rabbi Hiyya: From the day when the earth opened its mouth and received the blood of Abel, it never opened again, as is written, (Isaiah 24)...