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Oct. 12, 2020 - Know More News - Adam Green
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Amalek: The Eternal Enemy of the Israelites
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In the book of Exodus and also in the book of Deuteronomy, we speak about the mitzvah to destroy and to annihilate the nation of Amalek.
Says the Rambam in Mitzvah 188 and also 189.
And also in Negative Commandment 59, that there's a mitzvah and a command to wipe out from among all the descendants of Asav, the descendants of Amalek, male and female, young and old.
And the Safri goes on to say, how do we do this today?
We remember, which means to remember it verbally and do not forget it means not to forget it in one's heart.
What was so terrible about a Malik?
So the Talmud tells us, based on the verses in the Torah, that Amalek was the first one to attack the Jewish people when they left the land of Egypt.
Once they had the audacity, the chutzpah, to start up with the Jewish people, now the other nations felt that they too had a right to start up with the Jewish people.
So Amalek represents this concept of unbridled chutzbah.
In Exodus, we find in chapter 17 at the end.
Hashem says to Moses, write this as a remembrance in the book and recite it in the ears of Joshua that I shall surely erase the memory of Amalek from under the heavens.
Moses built an altar and called its name Hashem is my miracle, and he said, For the hand is on the throne of God.
Hashem maintains a war against Amalek from generation to generation.
Those are strong words, very, very strong words.
In Deuteronomy, there is a little bit more detail.
And it we find it in chapter 25 at the end of chapter 25.
we find as follows: "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you were leaving Egypt, that he happened upon you on the way, and he struck those of you who were hindmost, all the weaklings at your rear, when you were faint and exhausted, and he did not fear God.
It shall be that what Hashem your God gives you to rest." From all your enemies around in the land of Hashem, your God, gives you as an inheritance to possess that you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heaven.
Again, these are very powerful words.
The Jews cross the Red Sea, that amazing, marvelous, magnificent miracle of the Jews crossing through the Red Sea.
Then they're going towards the mountain of Sinai, but right before they get to the mountain of Sinai, Amalek attacks them.
Who is Amalek?
Amalek is Rashid Kuim.
The Jews were so revered by the entire world when they came out of Egypt.
But when Amalek, which is our grandchild of Esov, Yaqob's brother saw them, Amalek came and attacked the Jews.
And therefore God commands us that we should never forget this.
This is why the most important Torah reading of the year is Zachor.
And God tells Bayomir Adunai El Mosheikovzot Bishop.
At Maftier, the Torah, God commands Moses to tell Yahshua that he must annihilate Amalek.
And this battle between Amalek, good and evil, goes from generation to generation.
So Amalek, we know Hitler and Haman, and all of those other gang of people that wanted to annihilate the Jews, are part of this terrible gang.
Because Amalek is darkness.
They're the antithesis to godliness and holiness.
Everything the Jewish nation Stands for if the Jewish nation stands for humility, godliness, light, they are darkness, and we are commanded to destroy this because Amalek is not only a physical nation,
it's a spiritual energy, it's a negative force of darkness, and it's the worst force because Amalek is that energy that always wants to bring down its lets.
Let's mean silliness.
Amalek wants to take away the value of our lives, meaning.
See, the Zohar explains, especially before the coming of Mashiach, they're gonna be the four force to be contended with because they are the most powerful source of darkness.
And what Amalek always how he wants to take us away from God is that he wants to ridicule anything meaningful, anything holy, he wants to bring down the value.
Everything's a joke, there's no meaning to life, there's no rhyme and reason.
Who knows that if there's a creator, who knows why we're here, who knows anything.
So Amalek basically wants us to live a life that has no meaning, and anything that we do hold so precious and holy, and we we respect and revere the Torah and God, and unfortunately, we see that negative energy.
Amalek is that energy that wants to make us cold, wants to make us say, How do you know?
Who knows?
Maybe it's not true, and this is the worst type of people that we have to disassociate ourselves with, because unfortunately, Amalek, their energy has even steeped into the Jewish nation.
There's people there that at any and every opportunity they make fun of the Torah, heaven forbid, they make fun of Chachamim, the rabbis, they make fun of anything spiritual and honorable and noble, and they always want to cast doubt,
and Amalek ultimately wants to take away the meaning and value from our life, and that's the worst thing, because we human beings have been put down on this world for a purpose.
There is a God, there is a creator, and we are his chosen nation, we are the people that will bring the world to its fruition and make the world a garden of Eden again.
Happy is the person that does not associate with these people, these jokesters, these people that ridicule and make life into a joke, and nothing is meaningful, nothing is serious.
You could do anything and everything, that's Amalek's philosophy, as long as it makes you feel good, which is really the philosophy of the Western society today.
Amalek has become very powerful because who says there's any consequences, but the opposite is true, because we believe that we have been put here by a creator, and he has a mission for us.
It's mitzvah from the Torah, one of the 613 commandments, is to remember to erase the nation of Amalek, the memory of them, even not only physically to erase them from the face of the earth.
Anything that reminds us about them is mitzvah to dismiss and to erase it from the face of the earth.
This is what Hashem said.
Pakadatashev Asa Amalek al-Israel, the nature of this nation, Amalek, we don't know who Amalek is.
after we see what they did in Holocaust, not only to the Jews, to the whole world.
And it's not only the Germans, it's most of the European countries.
That's where Amalek is, but we don't know for sure.
Plus, even if we knew exactly to what country they settled, In the end, Amalek, today, after more than 2,000 years, there is no way to know about any Gentile in the world, what's his original source, because none of them kept Their entire family tree all the way to the time of the Tanakh, more than 2500 years.
None of the Goim knows where they're from.
So when you see an Arab, most likely is a descendants of Ishmael, because all Arabs came from Ishmael.
But the Arabs of today, you don't know where they're from.
Maybe ten generations ago, they used to be Christians who went to a Muslim country because everyone was running from everyone, and over there, they forced them to become Muslim.
His grand-grandmother, and now is Ahmed, and used to be Christ ten generations ago.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know this, his family.
We, the Jews, do we know more than three or four generations?
The maximum we know is our grandparents or their parents.
That's the maximum we could know.
We don't know ten generations ago who we used to be.
Nobody knows.
It's only go by certainty, by the odds.
Logically, we you have tradition that we came from the Jewish descendants.
And the Goim, they know they're non-Jews, but they don't know below that.
I mean, uh above that, they don't know.
So what's happening here?
There's no way to know when all looking at the goi from what nation he came.
He used to be seven nations sitting in the land of Israel.
The Prizi, Evusi, Girgashik, Naani, all these nations that the Torah mentioned, seven empires sitting in the holy land.
But they got mixed.
There used to be a king called Sancherif.
Sancheriv made such revolution in the world, everyone was running everywhere, and they all got mixed.
So we have a rule.
When the minority gets mixed with the majority, it gets canceled like it was never existed.
Hashem said to King Shaul, now it's time to destroy the Amalek.
Don't leave one survivor.
Destroy the entire nation of Amalek with their animals, everything that is owned by them, no Jews is allowed to enjoy from it.
Do not leave any memory from them.
What was special about this nation of Amalek?
They have a specialty.
Unlike the other nations, there were seven cursed nations in the holy land when the Jews came with Joshua to occupy the holy land.
Those nations were very wicked because they used to worship idols.
There was the prostitution problems, idols, and Hashem didn't like them, and he kicked them out of the holy land and he gave us the land.
That's the history.
But even though they were very wicked and cursed, this Goim.
Okay, there's still nothing compared to this Amalek.
Amalek was a nation that is willing to kill himself as long as they kill Jews with them.
That was their purpose.
What are we living for?
Just to hurt the Jews as much as we can.
Remember what Amalek always did to you.
Right?
And the Torah doesn't say that the language that the Torah says, Ashirka Derek, that it happens to you in a way.
Zachoret Asherah said al-Hamalek Betzit Hem erit mitzim.
Remember what the nation of Amalek did to you when you came out of Egypt.
But over here Hashem has no mercy on Amalek at all.
This is the only nation in history, in history, even on the Arabs that hate us so much, Hashem have mercy.
So that's what the Torah say.
Someone is on the way to kill you now or in a year from now.
You can kill him even now, a year before.
You don't have to wait a minute before.
You know this person will kill you statistically, that's what it always constantly repeats.
So you're allowed to go and attack him first.
But it's already becoming a serious argument.
Because it's human rights, is how can we be so cruel?
Let's wait until the danger is really, really physical.
What makes you think maybe they'll die naturally, maybe they won't attack us?
There's a lot of question marks here.
I agree.
But the point is right here that Hashem say, do not have mercy on the children.
Kill all their children also.
Why?
There's no difference between them and their children.
In ten years from now, these children will attack you on the way.
Hazem knows, God knows.
You kill all men and all women.
Me Olael, the adjunct, even babies who breastfeed.
Amazing.
Mishor Vatse, all axes, all goats, camels, donkeys.
Don't leave anything, any memory from this filthy nation.
Who is this Haman?
Amanaghi.
Why Haman almost killed all Jews?
King Saul.
Twenty-four hundred years later, Hitler.
The Germans.
We have all reason to believe that this is also a descendants of Amalek.
What do they want to do?
They want to kill all Jews.
Regardless, half Jewish, quarter Jewish.
They don't care.
Anyone who has some Jewish blood in him, DNA, let's get rid of them.
So technically, the Holocaust is actually a continuation from what happened with this word that I'm describing to you here.
The only ones in the world that remember a Malik are us.
If you have the 10 generations, we would forget about Amalek to be no Amaly.
So what does the Tara say?
Zakhar Asa Shasuluk Amalik, you better remember Amalek.
Never forget Mochik Tim Khazir Ramalik.
But what are we supposed to do?
Forget, eradicate?
Eradicate means there's no commemoration, no Amaliki, archaeological fine, no I'm a lakey dog, no I'm a lakey cow, no, I'm a lakey sheep, no Maliki house, no Maliki.
Well, remember Amalik, never to forget Amalek.
The whole mitzvah sounds so puzzling.
And who's Amalik today?
So the Rambam says the mitzvah of Machia Samulik is the Hidra Show'em.
It's a contemporary mitzvah.
The Ramban in his addition to Mitzvis that the Rambam neglected to write, Nasse Zion, the Khain, it's the Vinu Bishi Razu Kidday Liz Kor.
That Akkorujborhu will be melee.
Not just for no reason.
The name of Amalek, eradicate.
He loves us.
Listen to the lotion of the Ramban.
It's a very contemporary lotion.
Lin Kaim to take vengeance.
Ha Hamas.
That's what he writes.
Ha Hamas.
Sha'a Salonu Amolik me many Islam.
So Akharajborg will take our vengeance.
You know, it's like Rashi Yeshonim says, it's gonna take down Asa.
It's gonna take down Asa.
Now, one of the things that we also know is that the whole concept now is that in the end of time, Asaf comes back.
He does chuva, he does repentance, and I mentioned that he gave a whole she on that quite a while ago.
A whole concept of Aesov, you know, that he comes back, and why does chuva and uh and so on, and that God is allowing him to uh be part of what's called the Tikun process to help the Jews restore the Jews to their greatness.
We know that.
Do you really consider that the embassy move as just one step in the direction of building the temple?
It's a huge step, it's not just a step, it's a huge step because it is a step that is bringing together the biblical uh narrative, the narrative of uh Aesav and Yaakov, the two brothers that were splits thousands of years ago, are now being brought together again, and this is all part of the biblical narrative.
Uh Esau and Yaakov, the two brothers that were splits thousands of years ago, are now being brought together again, and this is all part of the biblical narrative.
We believe that this is this is the huge step to the recognition of Jerusalem of Israel and the rebuilding of our third temple.
It's the end of days.
You're gonna need the iron of Hisav, which represents Edom, which is the West, uh Europe and the Americas to get intermixed with Yeshman, which is basically Arabs and Muslims.
How in the world was this ever gonna happen if not for this refugee crisis?
At the end of days, you're gonna have this intermixing between Esav, Edom, which is the West, and the East, which is the Muslims and uh um and the Arabs, making this through this influx into the world, and they're gonna have children, you know.
I don't want to say by the dozens, but they're gonna have a far larger birth rate than the indigenous people there, and they're going to sort of conquer by number.
And there are many different sources for this.
Um, one of them in uh in the Hazgal, chapter 14, and many other sources, as far as this is concerned, where it's mentioned very, very um vividly what will happen to the Jews and what will happen to your shalom and what will happen to the world at that time, where there will be many, many people killed, and so on and so forth.
So the idea of having these refugees come into Europe, it's no longer a matter of whether it's right or wrong.
It's just simply a fulfillment of what it was meant to be all along.
This is the fulfillment of Hazal and the prophecies.
This has to happen and this is just another sign that we are nearing, you know, the completion of this tikkun of the entire world.
The machine will come to that when Edom, Europe, the chrétianity, will be completely fallen.
So I ask you: is it a good news that Islam is going to Europe?
It's an excellent news, it's an example of the Mashiach.
Excellent.
But at one point, you don't even have a notion of what we're talking about.
And you won't be able to fight.
Because all the evil that you have done to Israel, you will be able to fight at the centuple.
When Italy will disappear, when Edom, that's why the QG of Christianity, who comes from Esav, is there.
When this place will disappear, and that's what will do Islam, it will be the Islamic.
Islam is the ballet of Israel, sachez-le.
Dome becomes America.
Why?
Because it America is a dome, after all.
Aesov, who in modern day terms is really basically, you know, um of them is is uh is America, and America is slowly turning, especially Trump, toward Israel.
What's the difference between Edom and Amalek?
We spoke about Adome being the grandfather of Amalek.
Amalek is Germany, so who's a dome?
Edom includes most of Europe, it includes the United States of America, it's the Roman Empire that never was never destroyed.
But for those who don't understand that Italy is the seat of the Roman Empire of Edom, even though Edom is scattered, many other nations today that speak Latin languages that have something of the Roman Empire, including America.
They are first.
So a dome is everywhere and the United States of America is also part of a dome.
About Amalek.
And it is very apropos to speak about Amalek on Shushan Purim, the day after Purim.
After all, Purim has something to do with Amalek.
The question is, why doesn't Akadosh Baruch destroy Amalek?
This evil power that is known to us as Amalek.
He asks of us to do so, we are commanded to do so.
But it is not just a question about why doesn't Hashem do it.
Is why is the does this commandment appear to be so cruel?
After all it asks us, it asks of us to exterminate, to kill men, women, and children.
Now we know that God is compassionate, and the Jewish people are trained to be compassionate and to be kind and generous, and this one therefore stands out.
Here we're asked to be cruel, to not have any pity.
What a waste.
Animals, what did they do or anything?
I mean, did they do anything wrong?
I mean, so why the animals?
We're told Amalek hates us, hates us very very much.
So the question is where does that hatred that he has come from?
Why isn't Hashem's chair complete, intact, until Amalek will be finally destroyed?
That's what Hashem Himself says.
My chair, the chair of justice, the chair on which Hashem Kav Yachos sits on, is not intact until the day will come when Hashem eliminates Amalek.
And the last question is, what will happen in the very, very end?
To Amalek.
Will he be eliminated?
How will this happen?
When will it happen?
In order to properly understand this Topic, we have to delve a little bit into the Kabbalah.
We have to go back to the beginning of creation.
We have to understand some concepts that we've spoken about in the past, but nevertheless, we have to review them so we have a little bit of clarity as to the enormity of this task.
It's not an easy task, the task of destroying Amalek.
It goes back all the way to the very beginning of creation.
When Hashem created the world, He also created two powers, two opposing powers.
Koach ha-Tov ve Koach ha-Ra.
The ability to do good and the ability to do evil.
Evil being the opposite of good.
What is good and what is evil?
And I've explained that in the past that good is not necessarily what we think is good, because that's something that is not very objective.
It is very subjective what good is, what may be good to me may not be good to you.
The ultimate good is that which brings about the fulfillment of God's will in this world, that which brings us closer to our mission, and therefore evil or kohotara is anything that detracts from our mission, anything that moves us away, or anything that is opposed to doing the will of Hashem.
That's in a very simple way of explaining it.
You basically have two opposites, complete opposite.
One that wants to fulfill the mission, the will of God in this world, and one that does not.
So even though we do see an organized world, everything is beautiful in some ways, it's nice, it's well designed.
There still is a certain amount of tohu vavohu.
If you read the very beginning of Vereshit, you come across the words tohubavo, that right in the very beginning, before creation, before form and shape took place, the world was empty, void, right?
Confused.
Until Hashem made an order.
He separated light from darkness, separated good from evil, separate male from female.
See, everything is two.
A two day, night, good, evil, purity, impurity.
The idea that Jews are chosen, Bachar Banu, Nikol Ha'anim, chosen from among all the other peoples, fits into the liturgy at key moments, key public moments, such as when a Jew is called to an aliyah to the Torah to bless the Torah as it's being read.
The blessing they say includes you have chosen us from among all the peoples.
It's a very public, it's a very visible, and people are aware of what's being said.
Another key moment in the liturgy where the chosenness comes right up is in Havdalah, when they say where God is blessed for having separated the darkness from the light, separated the many days of the week from the Shabbat, separated the many peoples of the world from the Jews.
So even though God created the world and organized everything and separated everything perfectly, he allowed man to bring about Tovavo again.
He allowed man to bring about confusion and emptiness once again into this world.
Even though man builds and engineers skyscrapers, those all kinds of things, and some of them are good and beneficial.
He also has the ability to do evil, and part of that evil involves bringing about that emptiness and confusion to the world.
And what is emptiness?
Emptiness of faith, emptiness of belief in a supreme being.
In the very very beginning, Adam Harishon, the first man, already made the first mistake.
By not listening to the simple instruction of God.
When I say Adam Arishon, I mean his wife too.
By not following one simple instruction, be careful with this tree, with this fruit.
Don't eat from it.
Just one instruction.
He failed.
What's that whole episode for?
It's an important episode.
It's not just a story about a serpent enticing, luring a man and woman to go against God's wishes.
It is a story of creation, is a story of humanity.
There is an enemy out there who's against you, he's against God.
God created him.
But he's an enemy.
He's a serpent.
That's his name in the very beginning of Bereshit.
Who really who is he really?
He is the Yetzera.
He's the Satan.
He's the Malachamavet, the angel of death.
He has various names depending on his job.
And that's his job, basically, to lure you away from your mission.
And Adam Arishon made a mistake which many people make today.
It's not only his on a regular basis to go after his evil inclination.
Nishamat right now are mixed.
Different kinds of Nishamot are all mixed.
Good and not so good.
Now you may wonder for a moment how could there be not so good Nishamat?
Souls.
We've spoken about this too.
That there's some souls that are more divine and some less divine.
Look at us a soul, look at a soul as a spark.
We all have a human spirit that makes our heart pump blood and the like, but when we talk about the soul, we talk about the divine soul that every human being has.
Some are more divine than others.
That's the way it was made from the very beginning.
Hashem, of course, has a mission for humanity.
What's the mission?
You human beings have to rectify this world.
I organized it.
I want you to strengthen the good over the bad.
If you will achieve that to strengthen the powers of good over evil, you will rectify the world.
The only one who's capable of doing this job right is one whose Neshamah, whose soul is more divine, has more of a concentration of good than evil.
If that soul tends to be more evil, he will fail.
So Hashem, right now has to pick a soul and allow that soul to be the one who will hopefully fulfill this mission.
All of humanity as a whole, even though it is incumbent on them to be good and not to be evil.
We all have free will.
Nevertheless, Hashem needs a people, a soul, that will carry out this mission to rectify the world.
But all the souls, the good and the bad, are mixed in one place.
So how do we do it?
It's called the filtering process.
If you look at the history of the first generations in the Torah, you will find that the Torah is not given right away.
There are no Jewish people in the very beginning.
We have a whole bunch of people that will eventually disappear from the flood.
Eventually there's only one family left, Noah.
And even Noah doesn't get the Torah, neither does Avraham Avinu or Yishaq or Yaakov.
Righteous people.
No, they don't get the Torah.
The Torah eventually will be given, and it will provide a blueprint, a guide, a map to the Jewish people, to a nation to tell them what to do, how to rectify this world, fix it, clean it up.
Give the Koach of the Tov, give the powers of good more power over the powers of evil.
And you can only do that, you can achieve that through the Torah through the fulfillment of mitzvot.
Shahem has to filter out from all this mixture of good and evil on the level of the soul.
He has to filter out the evil.
So he starts removing generation by generation, a little bit of the evil.
Let's begin with Avraham Avinu.
Of all of Terach's kids, Terah, the father of Raham, only Avraham was a real, real believer, 100%.
Discovered the Hashem, discovered God, right?
Eventually taught it to other people.
Entire life was devoted to acts of goodness.
Great.
Is Avraham purified, completely filtered?
No.
He has a few kids.
He has a Yishmael.
Ishmael is not the best, not the best candidate.
Yitzhak is much better.
Right?
We all agree.
Ishak ready to receive the Torah?
Ishaki is almost like an angel.
Offers himself to be sacrificed.
No.
Yischaq and Rifka eventually get married.
They also have some psolit.
Let's use the Hebrew word here, something unrefined in them yet, called Isav, Rifka, Yitzchak, righteous two individuals, Tadi Kim.
Nobody has any doubts about how righteous they are.
Nevertheless, they still have some solid, some impurities in them, and those impurities are removed in the name of Esav.
Finally, Yaakov arrives at the scene.
Yaqov is much purer.
Yaqov symbolizes in the Kabbalah Amud Haimit, because he's truth.
Yaakov is not ready.
He has twelve children.
And those twelve children are not ready yet either, but they're almost there.
They have to go through Egypt.
They have to go through an additional refinement.
And we explain that it has a little bit to do with the baseless hatred that they still had, the jealousy, the problems, which of course were manifested with the selling of Yosef, their own brother.
That has to be removed.
They have to be refined, they have to be prepared, they have to be subjected to some slavery so they can learn to be servants of God.
After all, who wants to be a servant of anybody?
So they have to go through a little bit of refinement to prepare them psychologically, mentally, emotionally, whatever you want to say.
And that's what happens when they leave Egypt.
They're elevated to the highest levels.
Of Kedushah after they remove themselves from the Tumad impurity of Mitsraim, and they're ready to receive the Torah in Hagashavuot.
So finally, what do we see?
We see a nation, a people that has been steadily refined through the generations until there is a soul, a soul that is prepared to do Hashem's will.
Now seven Ishma, they said with all the excitement.
We're ready to embrace it, to be ready to embrace it without any questions asked.
What does it say?
That's only because they are refined, they realize that the truth of this.
Okay, now let's go to the other side.
The powers of evil.
As we're filtering all this good, there's some solid coming out, there's some unrefined souls coming out, and they're being concentrated too.
The Jews are receiving a concentrated dose of divine souls, and there is someone out there who's receiving a counts concentrated dose of unrefined souls.
There's unrefined souls everywhere in the world, but there is one area that is concentrated completely, ravil at its highest form.
Who's then Amalek?
And who's Amalek?
He's the grandson of Isav.
Which comes from Yitzhak too.
People don't realize I tell them, you know, Amalek is descended from Yzhach.
He says, What?
Yeah.
They come.
He's a semi too.
So now we have a problem.
We have a concentration of evil out there, and we have a concentration of good, and guess what?
Amalek will therefore become the arch enemy of the Jews.
Just like we have our Torah that tells us what to do, they have their own Torah.
What's their Torah?
The Torah is to oppose our Torah.
It's to go against everything that we are for.
It's evil.
Remember, it's evil concentrated.
It doesn't therefore tolerate, doesn't feel comfortable in the presence of good.
Real evil cannot take it when there is a presence of good.
That's just the nature of evil, real evil, concentrated evil.
People remember are mixtures of everything.
But the real evil will not tolerate the Torah, the philosophy, the teachings of good, of being humane, of being nice, compassionate.
You say, Well, why not?
No, there are there is an element out there in the world that will not tolerate it, and that's called Amalik.
The ultimate good is that which brings about the fulfillment of God's will in this world, that which brings us closer to our mission, and therefore evil or kohotara is anything that detracts from our mission, anything that moves us away, or anything that is opposed to doing the will of Hashem.
That's in a very simple way of explaining it.
You basically have two opposites, complete opposite.
One that wants to fulfill the mission, the will of God in this world, and one that does not.
He obviously does not believe in God.
And anything that has anything to do with God, he will oppose.
The words Ashekarecha, even though literally it means that he came across you, he made up with you.
It also means the commentaries explain, a form of kriot.
He cooled you off.
Amalek has the danger of cooling off a Jew from his emuna.
Pouring cold water on us to be cooled off from the emunat.
Ashekaracha also comes from the word mikre.
Everything is a coincidence.
It was just a big bang.
That's how the world was created.
It was just by accident.
Mikre by chance.
It was not divinely inspired.
It was not an act of God or creation.
That is the philosophy of Amalek, not to have anything to do with the teachings of the Torah, that there's a creator, that there is a boss who is involved in this world.
His job, therefore, Amalek is to move anybody.
Anyone who's attached to divinity or to doing acts of goodness to move him away from that.
And obviously, the Jew is the greatest representative of acts of goodness that there is.
In other words, the whole Torah, a lot of religions, a lot of laws of countries are taken from the Bible from the Torah.
So he is going to be our greatest enemy, Amalek says.
The Jew, he is giving us a hard time.
He is the one that's stopping us.
He's introducing this thing called conscience and morality and values.
And he doesn't want that.
So therefore, we are his enemy, and he is our arch enemy.
He's very dangerous to the Jew, not just to the world, because his approach when it comes to Emuna to faith, is to cast doubt in anything.
Amalek's approach, his tactic is to cast doubt, to ask all kinds of questions and intentionally cast doubt.
One way that he does it also is through Letzanut, um it lotsets, he makes a mockery of everything.
That's another way he does it.
makes fun.
Now the reason I'm emphasizing this is you have to realize something.
You may find an individual out there in the street who doesn't appear to be your enemy, per se.
He doesn't hate Jews, but he makes fun of Torah.
He mocks what the Torah writes.
That is a form of Amaleki.
That is at least the Midah, the characteristic of Amaleki.
He doesn't have to be biologically Amaleki to believe what Amalek believes.
So therefore, all of that approach, that attitude, that philosophy is dangerous to the Jew.
Because of what it does to cool us off.
Through this mitzvah of Mihyat Amalek of eliminating Amalek or racing his name, Hashem wants us to remember that the best way to love what Hashem loves is to hate what Hashem hates.
If you hate what Hashem hates, you will come to love what Hashem loves.
That's the way the system works.
In order to truly love what Hashem loves, you have to hate what he truly hates.
And Hashem hates Amalek.
Don't take any uh any uh credit or any uh you know any celebration whatsoever if you see your enemy fall, unless he's an enemy of the Torah.
Uh he's an enemy of the Torah, then he's an enemy of Hashem, then it's a mitzvah to celebrate.
You have to learn the seven law of Noah.
You can Google it, you have it all over this website who explained that Noah, you have to be a good person.
Right.
You cannot hate anybody because of race, especially not the Jewish people, because they are the chosen people of God, he loves them very much.
Hating them is considering hating God himself, because he's The father.
You cannot go against the son of a person and telling the person, I love you.
I love you, I have to respect your son.
Even if the son is not the greatest son, it's not even the issue here like that.
And he says the root of this commandment is to implant into our hearts that any enemy that oppresses the Jewish people are considered to be an enemy against God.
And therefore, according to their evil and their cunningness of their plans, so will too, so too will be their punishment and their downfall.
And therefore, we find by a Malik they wanted to harm the Jews, and they were the first to harm the Jews.
Therefore, God tells us we should erase their memory and we should eradicate them from the face of the earth.
The Rambam says that there are three mitzvahs that the Jewish people were commanded to do when they entered into the land of Israel.
And they are number one to establish a king for themselves.
Number two, Ulahachizar Isha Malik, and to cut off the offsprings of the nation of Amalek, and number three, the Livna is based abakira and to build a holy temple.
Why these three mitzvists in this order, first establish a king, then number two to destroy Amalek, and number three to build the holy temple.
But from here we see that in order for the holy temple, which is a meeting place between man and God to be complete, you first need to establish for yourself a king, and number two, to destroy Amalek.
The throne of God is incomplete until we destroy Amalek.
And the word Amalek is the gematria of sufaq.
If you add up the letters of Amalek, Ayy Mem Lamid Kuf, it equals 240.
The number 240 is the same number as the word suffak, which means doubt.
What is Amalek?
Says Chasidus, Amalek represents the concept of doubt.
They put a doubt into everything that you want to do.
That is why they're so evil.
Who is Amalek?
Amalek comes from Aesov.
Asa was a brother to Jacob.
So therefore, when Jacob, the Jewish people, want to follow the Torah, comes along Aesov and says, Hold on, don't take it so seriously.
You know, chill out, cool down.
I also know the Torah.
How do you know the Torah?
What do you mean?
Me and your grandfather Jacob were in the same womb together.
For nine months I was in the womb together with Jacob.
And I know the Torah, I was raised in the house of Isaac, and I was raised in the house of Abraham, and I studied the Torah, and I'm knowledgeable, the Torah, I know what your Torah says.
It's not that I'm ignorant, but I can tell you, you don't have to take everything so literally.
That is Amalek.
And that is why Amalek is so terrible, and it has to be totally uprooted, because that is the beginning of the downfall of the Jewish people and the entire Torah.
And that is why the Torah tells us that there are three mitzvs that the Jew has to do when he comes into the land of Israel.
Edits Israel edits the land, says the medrish means etymologically a place where you run to do the will of God.
So when a Jew enters into Eretz into the land of Israel, what should he do?
The first thing, appoint a king.
What does that mean?
Accept the yoke of God unconditionally.
If you want to or not, do the mitzvah.
Even if you do the mitzvah out of coldness, still do the mitzvah.
Step two, destroy Amalik.
Now do the mitzvah with warmth, with excitement.
When you begin to do the mitzvah with excitement, then you have the third aspect, the third mitzvah, which is to build a holy temple, a place where you and God will meet, because God only meets in a place where a Jew does a mitzvah with joy.
So, what's needed to defeat Amalek?
We said logic doesn't work, common sense does not work, he mocks, he ridicules, he opposes.
The way to defeat Amalek, we said of course is with the Torah, that's for ourselves to control ourselves, to have the right outlook.
But the way to defeat him, other than physical defeat, is through Emunapeshutah through simple emuna.
In other words, not to ask questions, too much questions, not to have any doubts.
There are many things we don't understand, many things that we will never know throughout our life.
Does that mean we should stop doing what we're doing?
This Amalek, how is he presented in this world?
How does he manifest himself?
What does he draw his power from?
The Kabbalah teaches us that every nation in this world has a Tsar, has a minister, an angel.
That's where it derives its strength.
And as we all know, all the nations that existed once upon a time, the Babylonians, the Persians, the old Persians, the Greeks, they disappeared.
They were around for a while and they left.
Their Tsar, their minister, weakened, fell, eventually being replaced by someone else.
Those sarim, every nation with their minister, did not have that much strength, did not have therefore that much influence, at least for thousands of years, just for a number of years it had influence, it made its contribution, it came on the scene, did what it was supposed to do, and it left.
For some reason, we have here an Amalek that's been around for a long, long time.
Just like the Jews.
The Jews have been around for a long time.
Nothing has happened to us, Baruch Hashem.
I mean, we've had our ups and downs, yes, ups and downs, but we're around.
Amalek in some form will always be around, and we're gonna we're gonna understand why in a moment.
Amalek has a very interesting minister.
It's the sum himself, it's the Yetzara himself, it's the Sitra Hara himself, it's the Malachamabit, the Satan himself.
They have this power has the most powerful minister of all, besides, of course, the minister of the Jews.
Tremendous, tremendous power.
But that's not enough to allow him to last so long.
You know what the problem is?
This minister, this Tsar, you know what he eats for dinner?
What gives him power?
What fuels him?
Acts of evil.
Acts of evil that are perpetrated in this world, give him power.
And he becomes bigger and bigger and bigger and stronger, and he's lasting forever, almost forever.
Because that's the way he operates.
He depends on this fuel called evil.
And if you have this fuel around, he will continue to be around.
So why doesn't Hashem destroy it?
Right?
That's one of our questions.
All this evil.
Well, why should I destroy him?
If the one who is giving him all this power is man himself.
Man is the one who's giving him this power, allowing him to continue to exist.
It is man's job, therefore, to destroy him.
But which man's job?
Mostly the Jewish people.
Because the Jewish people have that job of Latena Ulam, to fix this world, to rectify this world, to bring about Hashem's dwelling in this world.
And it's only through acts of kindness and goodness, through the observance of Torah Misvot that we are able to drive away these forces of evil, the forces of darkness through the light of Torah.
It is therefore our job, only we can do a good job in this.
It does not mean that everybody else is exempt from driving away evil.
No, the non-Jewish world, as one of the seven Noakite laws, they do have that obligation to set up a system of laws and to punish evildoers.
Of course.
They have the same mitzvah in some ways of staying away from acts of evil.
But who can actually rectify, who can do something about it, who can make a difference?
The Jewish people.
How?
Through the Torah.
Only through the Torah can we defeat the Koach of evil.
Now, it's not only do because we have the power to do it, the Jewish people need to do it because he is the one that will give us the hardest time with our job.
Hu Amafria Hagadol, he's the one that's giving us trouble.
He's a troublemaker.
So we better do something about it.
We cannot allow him to exist.
He's the one that is interfering with our job more than anybody else in the world.
How does he interfere with our job?
How does Amalek give us a hard time?
So the Torah, in telling us about our first contact with Amalek, it tells us Ashur Karechabad.
When you left Egypt, he met up with you.
He met up with you in the way, and he already waged war against you.
What does he want from us?
We're not taking his land.
We went away.
We didn't want to have anything to do with him.
He came after us.
The commentaries tell us Karhabaderech Bli Shumidgarut.
When he came after us and waged war against us, is without any incitement on our part, without any aggression on our part.
He did it on his own.
Why?
Something bothers him about us.
He doesn't like us.
What is there not to like about the Jew?
That he has a long nose?
I mean, what's what's wrong?
What bothers him?
You know what bothers Amalek about the Jew?
The Jew believes in musar, morality, ethical, being good, being nice.
That bothers him.
Our Torah bothers him because he believes in the exact opposite.
Anyone who read Mein Kampf from Hitler will find something interesting.
He says very clearly that Jews brought about two blemishes on humanity.
Does everybody understand what I mean by blemishes?
Two defects, two blemishes.
One in the physical body through the Brit Mila circumcision, and one in the soul through something called conscience.
Be, you know, have a conscience.
Don't let, you know, don't do certain things, because they will disturb your conscience.
There's no such thing he says.
He claims that one should not feel bad about it, about certain things that one does.
Do as you will.
Who's to say there's a right and there is a wrong?
That's Amalek.
From his writings, you can clearly see the philosophy of Amalek, the teachings of Amalek that are totally opposed to what we are teaching.
Amalek has another face that is not very known unless you go back and read about Isav, the grandfather himself.
What's the third face?
The grandfather had the face of a baltaava.
He loved food.
He had desires.
Coveted.
This ta'avah is very much seen in the nation that Isab formed.
Which nation did Issa form?
Not Amalek.
Remember, Amalek is a grandson.
It is an offshoot somewhat.
It is a descendant.
It is the concentration of the bad.
But Sav himself is not Amalek.
Isab is the father of Edom, the Edomites.
And there are a lot of nations in the world that belong to Edom.
The Roman Empire is all Adom.
They are related, aren't they?
Grandfather and grandson.
You will see that today it is possible to recognize who Amalek is and who is Adobe.
I just wanted to wake up those of you who are maybe falling asleep.
That there is a big relationship that can be observed today between the grandfather and the grandson.
In other words, even though Baasan Kheriv al Beletaulam, San Khirid, the Syrian king, one of the Syrian kings came and mixed up everybody.
And Amalek is scattered everywhere, including in Iran.
Haman Arashah, we just read about him.
He's Migezah Amalek.
What is Amalek doing in Iran?
So San Khiriv came and mixed everybody up, moved everybody around.
So we do have Amalek all over, but we will see we will soon see who he is.
I just wanted to talk a little bit about this face Of Edom, because this is especially a problem in the generation of Mashiach, our generation.
We are cruel to Amalek.
We need to be.
Because that is exactly what they would do to us if they had a chance.
If they had a chance, if Amalek has a chance, he will destroy the Jewish people, Khazalom.
If you don't believe me, look at the story of Haman.
That's exactly what he attempted to do.
No, not just the men, the men, women, and children.
And throughout history, there were programs of attempts and plots to carry out exactly that by those who come from Amalek.
And just recently, what about Hitler himself?
Didn't he try to do that too?
You see, only the men?
Man, women, children, babies.
He didn't care.
If we do not do it to him, he will do it to us.
So is that being cruel to him?
Or is that self-defense?
The Torah tells us, listen, you gotta do it because he's gonna do it to you.
Amalek from the very beginning has that built-in hatred.
He is the concentration of hatred.
It's all there, it's all it's not some good and some bad.
Okay, I'll think about it.
This time I'll let you go.
No, this is the concentration of evil, the greatest evil, the arch enemy of the Jew.
What difference does it make if it's a baby or if it's an adult?
It's the same thing.
This baby will eventually be an adult, and this baby will eventually try to harm you.
Do it to him before he does it to you, and you better do it, because he is your enemy, sworn enemy.
So because he is your enemy, guess what?
You have to be, he has to be to you a sworn enemy too.
You understand?
That's the idea, the basic idea of why there is no pity whatsoever.
A Jew, in order to survive as a Jew spiritually, needs to have a munat pishuta.
Simple, I believe in God because I know this is good for me, I know he exists, I don't understand everything, but I know it's for my own benefit.
He created the world, he gave me this formula, this lifestyle.
Any Jew that used philosophy and logic to try to explain Judaism, did not withstand the pressures of the Inquisition.
Rabbis tell us that during the Inquisition there were many great learned people.
They are the ones who succumbed to the pressure.
Many of them, not all of them, many of them succumbed to the pressures of the Inquisition.
They couldn't take the torture, they couldn't take the pressures, because their emun'ah was logical, was common sense, and that did not help them.
The pressure overrode their immunity that kind of emuna.
The emuna, in order for it to survive, it has to be pure, has to be simple.
Of course, you're supposed to understand as much as possible and use common sense to understand the meatzvot.
But you have to be very, very careful.
That which we don't understand, we accept anyway.
Otherwise, during times of pressure, people can break.
If their Imunai is not a simple pure emun.
Therefore, when it comes to arguing with Amalek, be very very careful.
Don't argue with him.
You're not going to win the argument.
Remember, he's your arch enemy, he represents evil.
You have to either eliminate him, otherwise he will eliminate you.
And when I say he will eliminate you, it doesn't have to happen physically.
There are a lot of Jews who I'd rather not use the word eliminated, but have been totally assimilated to the Amalek type of lifestyle that they're almost gone.
So if you don't defeat him, if you don't wage war against him, you don't remind yourself of that, of what he represents, you chash alone have the chance of being assimilated.
Therefore, since assimilation is part of learning from the ways of Amalek, the Torah tells us Zakhor Veal Tishkach.
Two things.
Not only do you have to destroy him whenever you can, you may not always have the chance to destroy him physically, wage war against him.
You're not always in control.
You live in the Galut in the diaspora.
Can you do it?
Okay, this is an Amalek.
I'm gonna get rid of him.
You're gonna go to jail.
You can't do it.
So how do you do it?
Zakhor Ve Al Tishkach.
There are times that the way to eliminate him is to remind yourself.
Remind yourself in two ways.
By saying it, Zakhor, verbally, talk about it, read about it.
This will remind you.
And not to forget, what is Lord Lishkuach mean?
What's the difference between not forgetting and saying it?
There's a lot of people who come to terms with certain situations.
Okay, it's not the same as it was a thousand years ago.
The Romans are no longer around.
This is not Germany.
This is not uh Poland of back then.
This is not the same Russian, this is not the same Egyptians, right?
There are people who will always look back and say, Well, let's just make peace with them.
Let's befriend them.
They're more civilized today, right?
Haven't you heard these things?
No.
Torah says, No.
Altishkah, don't come to terms with, don't let your heart be appeased.
And complacent, actually, I should say.
With Amalek, it's a force that is going to be around forever.
They're always going to be around.
You can't say they have changed their colors.
They haven't changed their colors.
Anytime the Jew becomes disconnected from the Torah, that's when Amalek has any power over us.
That's what Yitzhak told his own son Esav.
Estav, don't feel so bad, don't cry.
Yaakov took your your first hand, your firstborn rights.
He can only hold on to that.
He can only have the credit of that if he follows the Torah.
You know when your chance will come to control to be the boss?
When he removes the burden of Torah from himself, you can remove the burden of being subservient to him.
You will not be subservient to him if he's not subservient to God.
He cannot have anything of this world.
He's supposed to have the world to come.
He wants to enjoy this world too.
He wants to have peace of mind and quiet down here too.
All the benefits of Olamazh, it's only if he follows the Torah.
If not, you will take back your rights.
Whenever the Jewish nation is turned away from the Torah when the Jewish nation cools off, cooling off with the Midaw of Amalek to be cooled off from the Emuna.
So now we come to the question.
So who is he?
Who is he today?
Rabbis tell us that there will be a nation in the world right before Mashiach comes that we will be able to recognize from their character and their behavior who he is.
And the answer is very clear.
It's Germany.
Commentaries talk about how the concentration of Amalek is mostly in that country.
Does it come as a surprise?
No.
You can see for yourself what they did and what they're capable of doing.
But there is Amalek all over the world.
Amalek is everywhere.
We will have something called Milhemet Gogumagog.
Even though we can talk a long time just about this final war, which Bizat Hashem at some point I'll give a separate lecture.
The last war called Gogumagog is very much misunderstood by a lot of people.
Who is that exactly?
Even though Yekeskel speaks about an assembly of many nations.
They may have one head.
What's this assembly of nations coming against the Jews right before Mashiach comes at the time Mashiach arrives?
The assembly of the nations against the Jews is the assembly that Hashem is putting together of all the evil sparks that are scattered all over the world in all these nations that contain Amalek, Leva Erotam, Miaulam, to destroy them and completely eliminate the Ra once and for all.
Hashem will do it.
Now he hasn't been doing it because he wants us to do it.
It is our job to drive evil away.
But eventually, Hashem, of course, will do it.
Ashem when he gathers all these nations in the world to come against Israel against the Jews, he's gathering all the nations that have concentrations of evil.
Nations that have perpetrated evil against the Jews in the past.
That we have forgotten about them.
Oh, you mean Luxembourg is too involved in this?
Well, maybe Luxembourg has something to do with it too.
We don't know.
Hashem knows.
We forget, human beings forget.
Hashem does not forget.
He knows where every spot where Jewish blood was spilled.
He remembers it.
Every soul, everybody, everything.
So therefore, as the Zora explains in the final assembly of nations against the Jewish people that is going to very come very soon, we have reincarnated souls of Goim too.
Reincarnated souls of non Jews that will come because we have to see in their fall.
we've never seen the revenge, we've never seen their fall.
People have just died, disappeared, went away.
Hashem says, no, they're not forgotten.
You're gonna see it.
I'm gonna bring them all together.
So he's bringing them together in the final day of judgment to judge them.
There has not been justice done till now.
So what will be the end of Amalek?
The end of Amalek is as it's written in Pashad Balak Bahrito Ade Ovid.
In the end, Amalek will be destroyed.
In the end, all forces of evil will be destroyed.
And this of course will happen Bazat Hashem in our generation.
Now, how do I know it will happen now soon?
Rabbis tell us that the Jewish people received three mitzvah upon entering the land of Israel.
the mitzvah of choosing a king, the mitzvah of destroying any vestige of a malech, and the mitzvah of building the Bet HaMikdash.
We have entered the land.
There is an ingathering taking place right now.
So what's going to happen soon?
We're going to have a king, Melech HaMashiach.
We have to have a Betamidash.
So we know that the destruction of Amalek is imminent.
Just that until now we had the mitzvah, every Jew.
Now of course it will come about through Mashiach.
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