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Amalek is alive and well and spreading — even if many fail to grasp its danger
Jewish World Review ^
| 3/01/'07
| Rabbi 'Avi Shafran
Posted on 03/02/2007 1:37:22 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
The thesis that is the Jewish Nation has an antithesis: Amalek. And just as the Jewish People is defined by its Torah, so is its polar opposite associated with a particular system of thought and attitude.
Amalek the nation is unknown to us today; the Biblical command to destroy it to avert the mortal threat it poses to all that is good and holy is thus moot.
Amalek the notion, though, is very much present in the broader world, the Jewish one and perhaps, to a degree, within each of us as well. And its undermining remains an obligation both urgent and clear.
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TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: amalek; amaleq; godversusrandomness; jewish; judaism; purim
One who sees only random forces as the engine of that diversity may be able to offer an explanation of the human belief in right and wrong claiming, for instance, that such belief evolved through "natural selection" to confer some biological advantage to humans. But he cannot justify the belief itself as having any more import than any other utilitarian evolutionary adaptation.A joyous Purim to all!
To: Alouette; wideawake
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03/02/2007 1:38:37 PM PST
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Zionist Conspirator
(Zakhor 'et 'asher-`asah lekha `Amaleq, baderekh betze'tekhem miMitzrayim.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
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03/02/2007 1:59:01 PM PST
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Tax-chick
(Every "choice" has a direct object.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Is Purim today? I'm Catholic, but my bf was raised Jewish.
To: Zionist Conspirator
To: TheSpottedOwl
Is Purim today? I'm Catholic, but my bf was raised Jewish.Purim is today, sunday, 3/4.
Please forgive the tardiness of this reply. I've been out of town.
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03/04/2007 12:23:16 PM PST
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Chag Purim, Chag Purim, chag gadol shel Yehudim!)
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