Posted on 03/21/2024 1:38:13 PM PDT by silent majority rising
In our generation, when there is no known Amalek, we must uphold the root of the mitzvah, which is to eradicate evil and wage uncompromising war, even when our merciful nature seeks peace
Our enemies constantly declare that they want to destroy us in the cruelest way possible, yet many of us have not internalized this. This is how we accepted the Oslo Accords, the withdrawal from Gush Katif, the agreements to release murderers in exchange for hostages – the most horrific of which was the release of Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 terrorists. If we understood that we are dealing with enemies who truly want to destroy the State of Israel, we would strive for complete victory in which the enemy surrenders unconditionally, and only then, begin to consider the day after.
-What is the reasoning behind the Torah’s command to mercilessly eradicate Amalek, including women and children?
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Excellent point.
Those engaged in such evil see mercy as weakness and it emboldens them. They do not understand mercy.
I think that is why God made it a commandment (mitzvah). He also commanded that they defend themselves...Not a Christian commandment as it is taught in churches (turn the other cheek etc.)
Amalek is the Jewish canon’s name for all of the people who attack the weak and unarmed. We are obliged not only to wipe out such people but even to erase their name, so the memory of them will be forgotten.
The duty to do that stems from the attack that the nation of Amalek carried out on the Jewish people when they were wandering in the desert. The bible teaches that Amalek attacked the weakest part of the children of Israel, the people who were at the back as they walked, who were weak and unable to defend themselves.
The Rabbis understood that this drive to attack the weak would be an ongoing problem. Boy, where they right — see October 7. That’s why the obligation to destroy them is also a continuing duty.
Turning the other cheek is in regards to being insulted.
Very few Christians I know think it means letting someone do whatever they want and not fighting back to defend yourself or someone else.
And even for those who won’t defend themselves, I really never see anyone saying we can’t defend someone else.
Yes, and Saul let the King of the Amalekites, Agag, to live and to be an ancestor of Haman who instigated the First Holocaust, commemorated with the Feast of Purim. The second Holocaust was prophesied in large/small letter code in the Book of Esther where Esther asks the “King” to hang the 10 sons of Haman after they have been hanged already.
Clearly, YHWH knows that the Jews will screw things up. It seems to be part of the plan, and they are not disappointing on this.
No doubt, this is why God commanded Israel, when they entered the Promised Land, to destroy all the inhabitants of the country.
But IIRC they didn’t destroy them all, hence the problems they and we have today.
Sadly, it is taught in many churches..
The person I knew who was the biggest proponent of that kind of thinking had kids who were bullies and were the kind who you needed to defend yourself against.
My only conclusion was that she didn’t want anyone fighting back against her babies.
As far as my kids, I told them that they if they needed to defend themselves, to do so with whatever it took and then to find an adult and get it stopped. And if they saw someone else being bullied, they were free to protect them by whatever means.
But heaven help them if I EVER found out THEY started it or were bullying someone.
The person I knew who was the biggest proponent of that kind of thinking had kids who were bullies and were the kind who you needed to defend yourself against.
My only conclusion was that she didn’t want anyone fighting back against her babies.
As far as my kids, I told them that they if they needed to defend themselves, to do so with whatever it took and then to find an adult and get it stopped. And if they saw someone else being bullied, they were free to protect them by whatever means.
But heaven help them if I EVER found out THEY started it or were bullying someone.
we know very well from example of Saul and Amalekites that we must follow God’s insruction to destroy every one. and that has not been revoked in the years that followed.
Ask the Cathars. Oh yeah, we can't because they all died.
Almost impossible to argue with anyone who truly believes in never fighting back..
I already discussed this quite well here recently.
When the Hebrews had mercy on some of the enemies one of the survivors had a child whose later child grew up to be Haman who made it a point to send his soldiers to find and slaughter every Jew he could find. Haman is the one remembered sneeringly with “Hamentaschen” pastries, said to be the three cornered hat he wore but actually because people used to save enemies’ severed ears as souvenirs, so the pastries are his ears (complete with moist strawberry fillings in some).
The lesson was to refrain from making your own decisions based on disagreeing with God’s orders to you. Do it God’s way.
Deuteronomy 20:17
but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,
How would one know who these people are today if they’re still around? They might want to know if they’re marked for destruction, even the women and children.
RE: They might want to know if they’re marked for destruction.
We already warned the Dems but they didn’t care.
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