Presence

Did anyone else notice the striking similarity between Parshas Korach, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche? Specificly, the ideas of ressentiment and master/slave morality?

I realize that this posits the traditional power structure in Judaism as a master morality, which is contrary to Nietzsche's own conclusions, but I after reading him I felt he had a fundamental misunderstanding of what Judaism was really about anyway (assuming, of course, that I have any idea).

Incidentally, I heard another, much more cogent, explanation of Korach's motivations; it's not my Torah, but I should write it down simply because of its brilliance. It does have to do with democracy, though.

And if you think this is blasphemous, just wait till Parshas Pinchas. It's midnight in the Garden of Beyond Good and Evil, baby.