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As Moses\u2019 oration approaches its conclusion, he recalls one of the earliest and most painful moments in the 40 years of in the wildness, one that occurred before most of his listeners could remember: the violent, debilitating, enraging encounter with Amalek in the short period between leaving Egypt and reaching Sinai (see Exodus 17:8-16). The brief recounting in this chapter exhorts the Israelites, \u201cRemember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt\u2014 how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down (lit. \u201ctailed\u201d) all the stragglers in your rear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanchuma<\/span> (<\/span>Ki Tetze<\/span><\/em> 10) picks up on the usual word \u201cto tail,\u201d reads it as euphemism for male genitalia and reports in the name of Hanina bar Shilqa: \u201cWhat did the House of Amalek do to Israel? They cut off their circumcised organs and flung them heavenward, saying, \u2018This is what You chose, take for Yourself what You chose.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the midrash is picking up on something more than the linguistic difficulty. Note that for all of the horror at Amalek\u2019s attack and the decree of everlasting enmity, neither version includes a report of deaths. Perhaps, the unasked question is what could have been so terrible as to deserve such wrath, if there are no \u201cbody bags\u201d at the end. One possible answer is violent, mass sexual abuse and rape. The victims are profoundly harmed without physically dying.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If that is indeed the case, the next question might be, how did that trauma inform everything else that happened in the desert? Might the brutality of sexual abuse, at a moment when people were still extremely vulnerable, so damage their ability to trust the world that they were never able to be as faithful as God and Moses would have liked? I think the possibility is worth considering.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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What did Amalek do to deserve their reputation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The two tellings of the story of Amalek bracket our experience of becoming a nation. They first appear (Exodus 17:8-16) immediately after Israelites leave Egypt and we are reminded of them again in Deuteronomy Chapter 25, when we are about to enter the land of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The narrative is but 3 verses (25:17-19), the more powerful for its brevity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What made Amalek\u2019s evil unique? Commentators offer several answers:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. They attacked unprovoked. There was no threat, nothing to be gained; no bragging rights, land, or property.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. They attacked when the nation was at its most vulnerable, weary and faint.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. They attacked from behind, where the weakest were.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. They did not stand in awe of God, and in so doing made other attacks possible. Rashi explains: \u201cIt may be compared to a boiling hot bath into which no living creature could descend.\u00a0 A good-for-nothing came, and sprang down into it; although he scalded himself, he made it appear cold to others.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    What does it mean to remember, to wipe out their memory but at the same time, not to forget Amalek?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    According to Sifrei, \u201cremember\u201d refers to words: written and oral. \u201cDo not forget\u201d refers to our hearts. What we do not forget becomes a part of us. Remembering and not forgetting are complementary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201c<\/span>Wipe out the memory of Amalek<\/span><\/em>\u201d - <\/span><\/i>Many sources say this refers literally to wiping out all of Amalek. However, our tradition struggles with this genocide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Talmud Brachot 28a tells us that, when he conquered nations, Assyrian King Sennecharib dispersed the local people widely to cause confusion and prevent rebellion. In time, the people intermarried, so that it is not possible to identify who is who - including Amalek. Others say that Amalek must be destroyed by a king of Israel in its sovereign land. Together, the physical destruction of the nation of Amalek is not implementable. Maimonides includes Amalek among the 7 nations of the land of Israel. If they accept peace terms with Israel, they are spared. Only if they refuse are they to be destroyed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Over centuries, Amalek has become less a question of DNA and more a <\/span>symbol<\/span><\/em> of evil. So, is it possible, as Maimonides suggests, for Amalek to change its ways and thus, no longer be Amalek?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our text says wipe out the <\/span>memory<\/em> <\/span>of Amalek.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rabbi Samson Hirsch notes, not Amalek, but its remembrance and glory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God <\/span>did<\/span><\/em> wipe out the memory of Amalek. The three + books of Torah between leaving Egypt and entering the land are filled with words (\u201cremember\u201d refers to words), laws, teaching us how to be different than Amalek. 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    Chapter 25 contains the commandment to remember Amalek. This is accomplished every year by a special reading of this chapter on the Shabbat before Purim. Haman is described as Haman the Aggagi. Agag is the king of Amalek from the time of King Saul in the book of Samuel, which makes a reading about Amalek perfect for that Shabbat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The story of Amalek appeared back in chapter 17 of Exodus. In Exodus God also commanded Moses to write down what Amalek did and repeat it to Joshua. Why is the pre-Purim reading from chapter 25 of Deuteronomy? Why does Moses repeat this commandment now? It makes more sense to read from the actual story in Exodus that also contained a commandment to remember.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To answer these questions, we need to compare the two commandments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt. How, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear. Therefore, when your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!\u201d (verses 17-19).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Compare this to the commandment in Exodus:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And Joshua overwhelmed the people of Amalek with the sword. Then God said to Moses, \u2018Inscribe this in a document as a reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven!\u2019 (Exodus 17:13-14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There are two main differences between the two readings. The major difference is that the story, including the heroics of Joshua and Moses\u2019 miraculous arm lifting, are not mentioned in Deuteronomy. The very minor, yet significant difference is in the word \u201cwipe out,\u201d more specifically, who\u2019s doing the wiping out. In the Hebrew, this difference comes down to one letter- <\/span>alef<\/em> <\/span>v. <\/span>taf<\/span><\/em>. In Exodus, God says \u201cI will blot out the memory of Amalek\u201d (an <\/span>alef<\/span><\/em>). In Deuteronomy, God says \u201cyou will blot out\u201d (a <\/span>taf<\/span><\/em>). The difference may seem small, but it is very significant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the time of the attack, the Israelites had just left Egypt. While the people were victorious, it took the heroics of Joshua and the miraculous assistance of Moshe to achieve victory. God needed to assuage the people that he would assist in future attacks by Amalek. Now, forty years later, the people have evolved into a nation. Moses and God have prepared them to act on their own. That is why the story is not included here. It is also why God charges the people to wipe out Amalek. They are ready for the demanding task.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The Jewish people don't seek to enter the land of Israel simply for the sake of national safe refuge. If that were the case, then when their conquest was finished and their borders secured, there would be no more need for war. But the Jewish national project is about an idea. After Moses has spent the last chapters detailing the practical application of this idea as a vision for society, Chapter 25 presents us with the antithesis of the vision- Amalek. When all the wars of conquest are finished, the Jews must wage a last battle of ideology, to eradicate the idea of Amalek from the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But this battle holds a deep paradox. \u00a0Amalek's wickedness is epitomized by their tactic of attacking the weak and helpless at the margins of society. The ideal society outlined by Moses is one defined, more than anything, by its empathy and caring, especially for the weakest members of society. It is a society \u00a0of the highest standards of justice, but that justice is tempered by mercy when relating to the disadvantaged. So, on the one hand, it makes perfect sense that we need to completely eliminate the Amalekite ideology. But, how can we do that without compromising the values we're fighting for? How can we destroy Amalek- men, women, children- \u00a0without becoming Amalek?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It could be that there is no real-world resolution to this paradox. In our first battle against Amalek, according to the Midrash, Joshua is told only to kill the strongest, to leave even the weaker soldiers alive. The values that animate the war win out over the need to fight it to the finish. When it's King Saul's turn, the instructions have changed, and no mercy is to be shown. Despite this, the Jews feel compelled to have mercy, but in the absence of guidelines allowing them to do so appropriately, their mercy is corrupted by self-interest. The weak and defenseless are slaughtered. They \"have mercy\" only on the booty, and Saul spares his fellow king.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Ultimately, historical circumstance and rabbinical sensibilities take the literal fulfillment of this command out of the realm of possibility, thus redeeming it from paradox. 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    The last three verses of our chapter are also read on the Shabbat preceding Purim, on which occasion they comprise <\/span>Parashat Zakhor<\/span><\/em>, the section of recollection, on account of its opening words: \u201cRecall what Amalek did to you on your way out of Egypt\u201d (verse 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    While the subject of Amalek is significant in and of itself, I would prefer to focus here on the context in which it appears, beginning with verse 13: \u201cYou shall not keep two types of weights in your pocket, one large and one small.\u201d How does a prohibition against fraudulent business practices segue to Amalek?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rashi, ever alert to textual dissonance, explained the juxtaposition of fraud and Amalek as a catastrophe that comes as the consequence of fraud:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If you use false weights and measures, then you must anticipate the incitement of the enemy, as it states (Proverbs 11:1): \"A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,\" and immediately thereafter (v. 2): \"Shame comes in the wake of intentional sin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Further elaboration on this theme is provided by Rabbi Yoseph Bekhor Shor, a student of Rashi\u2019s grandson, Rabbenu Yaakov Tam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Fraudulent weights is a more severe crime than forbidden relations\u2026 If one commits adultery or incest, once he atones for his sins God will forgive him. But if one commits large scale fraud, God withholds his atonement until he makes compensation; but since he does not know everyone from whom he has stolen, he does not know from whom to seek forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    These commentators are reminding us that we cannot divorce our ritual obligations and practices from our moral and ethical behavior, a point also made by the prophet Samuel whose rebuke to Saul and Israel over their failure to prosecute God\u2019s war against Amalek contains the following stricture: \u201cObedience is preferable to sacrifice, and compliance to fatted calves\u201d (1 Samuel 15: 22). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    When genocide is discussed in a Jewish setting, it is often in the context of Jews as victims. Not so in Deuteronomy 25. Here, the Israelites are given the (in)famous command to wipe out the entirety of Amalek. Lest one think this is merely theoretical, the accompanying <\/span>haftorah <\/span>from I Samuel 15, makes the extent and reality of this commandment clear: not a trace of this people may remain. This is genocide in the extreme, destroying all remnants of Amalek.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This unusual <\/span>mitzvah<\/span> is perplexing and even disturbing. How can a people, who are commanded to emulate God\u2019s compassion be charged with wiping out an entire people? Is it possible to cultivate the mercy and kindness and simultaneously carry out this command to murder men, women and children?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    While this challenging biblical command might have remained buried in our Torah readings, like the commandment to stone one\u2019s rebellious child, this is not so with the commandment of wiping out Amalek. Each year the Shabbat before Purim, we read these three verses publicly, reminding all those present of our ongoing commitment to destroy Amalek.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The joy-filled holiday of Purim, shortly upon us, centers on this very Jews vs. Amalek narrative. Only in this case, the plot unfolds with Amalek\u2019s descendent Haman vowing to annihilate the Jews \u2013 men, women and children alike. We are once again the victims, not the perpetrators of this genocide. Each year, as we read the Book of Esther, we are outraged! How evil Haman must be to conjure up a plan to kill an entire people with little cause.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Amalek narrative is a zero-sum game. The Bible suggests that the newly formed Jewish nation cannot exist alongside Amalek. So too, many generations later, Haman proclaims the same about the Jews. It appears that both sides have bought into this zero-sum ideology: These two nations cannot simultaneously exist.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Or can they?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Perhaps the Purim story, dripping with irony throughout, ends with one final ironic climax. The Jews choose to commemorate their unexpected salvation by breaking the genocidal cycle. This might be the greatest genius of Esther and Mordecai, who declare that future generations of Jews on this day should not occupy themselves with destroying Amalek but with caring for the poor and strengthening communal and social bonds through gift-giving, breaking bread and merry-making. They supplant the biblical call to violence, <\/span>remember<\/em> <\/span>what Amalek <\/span>did<\/em> <\/span>(<\/span>Zachor <\/span>et asher <\/span>asah<\/span><\/em>) with a new command of \u201c<\/span>remembering<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>doing<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>nizcarim v\u2019naasim <\/span>bechol dor vador<\/span><\/em>) that centers on compassion, love and community.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Instead of reading and the Book of Esther as yet another episode in the epic power struggle codified in our chapter, we might just see the Purim story as a courageous tale about those who dared us to disrupt entrenched patterns centered on violence and replace them with new \u201crememberings\u201d and \u201cdoings\u201d of kindness and connection. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":51527,"alt":"","title":"gen-question-mark","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","width":366,"height":440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-250x300.jpg","medium-width":250,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","medium_large-width":366,"medium_large-height":440,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","large-width":366,"large-height":440,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","1536x1536-width":366,"1536x1536-height":440,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","2048x2048-width":366,"2048x2048-height":440,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","post_full_size-width":366,"post_full_size-height":440,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-349x420.jpg","home_baner-width":349,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"What To Do About Amalek-II","tile_main_caption":"Breaking The Amalek Cycle","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Esther and Mordechai decree a different remembering and a different future","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":51527,"alt":"","title":"gen-question-mark","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","width":366,"height":440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-250x300.jpg","medium-width":250,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","medium_large-width":366,"medium_large-height":440,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","large-width":366,"large-height":440,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","1536x1536-width":366,"1536x1536-height":440,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","2048x2048-width":366,"2048x2048-height":440,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark.jpg","post_full_size-width":366,"post_full_size-height":440,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gen-question-mark-349x420.jpg","home_baner-width":349,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"178","date":"20260505","wall_id":"178"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"476","name":"Compassion","old_id":"876"},{"term_id":"517","name":"Esther","old_id":"917"},{"term_id":"641","name":"Amalek","old_id":"1041"}]},{"order":9,"id":"51571","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"What Can We Learn From An Unmuzzled Ox? 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    Chapter 25 is another compilation of laws that at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other. Some of the laws do have some connection by association. For example, the levirate marriage law in verses 5-10 is connected to the next law in verses 11-12 in that it has two men and one woman.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jewish tradition sees a connection between the first two laws, verses 1-3 and verse 4. Verse 1-3 describe the physical punishment for an evildoer - \u201cforty lashes but no more\u201d (this is fascinating in and of itself). Verse 4 says the following: \u201c<\/span>You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.<\/span><\/em>\u201d The rabbis concluded - a person that muzzles an ox while it is threshing, shall receive forty lashes (Bavli Makkot 13:2). This connection is very convenient but also very weak. If the law intended to give an example, it would have used a human example. Moreover, this example really limits the people who will be considered \u201cevildoers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I don\u2019t think this law is connected to the one before it in any way, or to the one after it. I think that this law stands by itself. It stands out because it is about animals and it is very short, but it doesn't mean that it has to have a connection to the laws around it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As a stand-alone law, what is it trying to tell us? The basic understanding is that one shall not require an animal to do labor, without enjoying the fruits of that labor. This is another beautiful example of the Deuteronomy's attention to its surroundings. Not just people but animals as well (and nature: see chapter 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Should this law also apply to human beings? Can we, as a society, require business owners to let their employees enjoy the fruits of their labor? Should waiters be allowed to have food in that restaurant without paying? Should teachers be allowed to use school supplies for their private use? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Although this kind of culture seems to understand the human soul - standing up to temptation can be tricky - this kind of culture can also become a slippery slope as it is soon it will be unclear where the line is drawn. Can a whistleblower lawyer use the information they have to short a publicly traded stock? Can the secretary of defense sell all his holdings before declaring war?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Like many other things in the economy, laws that are based on an ethical point of view might have unexpected outcomes that will cause a deterioration in the ethics of society.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":51585,"alt":"","title":"dt25-office supplies","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","width":628,"height":279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies-300x133.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":133,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","medium_large-width":628,"medium_large-height":279,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","large-width":628,"large-height":279,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","1536x1536-width":628,"1536x1536-height":279,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","2048x2048-width":628,"2048x2048-height":279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","post_full_size-width":628,"post_full_size-height":279,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","home_baner-width":628,"home_baner-height":279}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"What Can We Learn From An Unmuzzled Ox?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Should business owners let their employees consume he fruits of their labor?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":51585,"alt":"","title":"dt25-office supplies","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","width":628,"height":279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies-300x133.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":133,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","medium_large-width":628,"medium_large-height":279,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","large-width":628,"large-height":279,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","1536x1536-width":628,"1536x1536-height":279,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","2048x2048-width":628,"2048x2048-height":279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","post_full_size-width":628,"post_full_size-height":279,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-office-supplies.jpg","home_baner-width":628,"home_baner-height":279}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"178","date":"20260505","wall_id":"178"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"436","name":"Morality","old_id":"836"},{"term_id":"847","name":"Business","old_id":"1247"},{"term_id":"848","name":"Stealing","old_id":"1248"}]},{"order":10,"id":"51531","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Remembering Not to Forget ","post_title":"Remembering Not To Forget","slug":"remembering-not-to-forget","old_id":"51531","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36423,"post_title":"Ari Hoffman","slug":"ari-hoffman","old_id":"36423","first_name":"Ari ","last_name":"Hoffman","description":"Ari Hoffman is a columnist for the Forward, where he writes about politics and culture. 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    Today\u2019s chapter ends with a blaze of rhetoric and the famously troubling exhortation to genocide. As with so many other commands in Judaism, it is tied to history and memory-<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you went forth from Egypt, <\/span>how he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The exclamation point is the famously paradoxical \u201cremember, do not forget\u201d imperative to wipe out Amalek from the face of the earth. Many of us are made uncomfortable by this passage, and the text itself seems to be uneasy, protesting too much, itching for a fight. It describes Amalek\u2019s behavior with vivid specificity, as if to make our blood boil millennia later. \u00a0One might say this is the counter-Haggadah narrative, remembering in order to kill rather than to live.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Perhaps the most striking part of this section is the knottily doubled urging to simultaneously recall and forget, to inscribe and obliterate. Seen from one angle, the repeated imperative telegraphs emphasis. No matter the face of your mind or the predilections of your memory, the inscription against Amalek needs to be written in permanent ink. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Understood from a different direction, there is something twitchy and nagging about the words, as if the text knew that this dictate would be a difficult one to incorporate into a Jewish ethos to which it is orthogonal at best. The memory of the outrage would fade, and we would forget who Amalek was, if not what they did. The name would become a generic marker for an evil that would become all too familiar. 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    In Chapter 25 we encounter the commandment to keep equal and fair weights at measures. Not only are we promised long life and prosperity if we use fair measures, we are told that using false measures is a <\/span>toevat hashem<\/span><\/em>, an abomination to God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It is easy, when reading this prohibition to imagine that the person violating it is a monster: a deceitful scam artist taking advantage of his customers. However, the Mishnah in Bava Batra 5:10-11 reads it quite differently:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The wholesaler wipes his weights every thirty days, and the householder every twelve months. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: the other way around. A shopkeeper must wipe his weights twice a week, and clean the weights once a week, and wipe his scales after each weighing. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: in what case does this ruling apply? To liquid (measures), but for dry (measures), it\u2019s not necessary. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This Mishnah understands that the person being addressed by this commandment is not a scam artist, but a careless, overworked shopkeeper, neglecting to wipe things down regularly enough. The abominable act of using false measures doesn\u2019t come through malice, but neglect. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I believe it is common in our lives to want to imagine that real, big sins are things done by other people, people who are not like us, people with ill-intent and twisted hearts. But in reality, a lot of the wrongs that happen in the world happen because someone ran out of time, or overlooked it, or thought it wouldn\u2019t matter. This Mishnah shows how small acts of carelessness accumulate into abominations, how it could happen to us, without us even intending it. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rather than reading this law as speaking to the scam artists of the world, we should imagine it speaking to us: where in our lives do we let the little things pile up? How are we hurting others with our carelessness? What regular practices can we develop to keep ourselves from falling into these abominations? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Deuteronomy 25 is comprised of an odd group of seemingly unrelated commandments: the laws of lashing; of a brother marrying his brother\u2019s widow; the punishment for unjustified embarrassment; the laws of maintaining honest weights and measures; and the exhortation to remember Amalek.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our sages explain that the law of lashing refers to the situation in which witnesses are conspiring to delegitimize each other\u2019s testimony through an intentional attempt to instill doubt where the facts may not warrant it. The actions taken on a man\u2019s decision to not marry his brother\u2019s widow (the strange ceremony of chalitza) leaves no doubt about the man\u2019s choice and the widow\u2019s status. And what is the impact on witnesses to unjustified embarrassment? Ultimately it plants a seed of doubt about the character of the victim. And finally, the commandment against owning two sets of weights and measures: for anyone who\u2019s been on a diet, we know how easy it is to fool ourselves about how much one cup is. So much more so if you have two sets of measures that are oh so slightly different - in which case you\u2019re not just fooling yourself but cheating someone else. All of these commandments serve to erase doubt within our own minds and that of the community. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Finally comes the commandment to remember Amalek. For other enemies, the Israelites had been told to vanquish them - get rid of them and you\u2019re done. But with Amalek it\u2019s different. Destroying them physically isn\u2019t enough. We also have to perpetually remember what they did. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What\u2019s different about Amalek\u2019s attack than other enemies encountered by the Israelites? The Or HaChaim points out the uniqueness in Amalek\u2019s attack being that they sought out the Israelites not for any particular military or territorial win, but just to kills us, for no reason. No other objective. No vision. No purpose. \u00a0And that\u2019s who and what we must remember always. Furthermore, we\u2019re told to remember Amalek precisely when \u201cGod gives you rest from all your enemies, all around, in the land that God gives you...you shall not forget.\u201d Specifically when we get comfortable and life becomes simple and routine, that\u2019s when we need to remember the enemy who\u2019s baseless hatred of us will not only attack us, but sow the seeds of self-doubt that will ultimately destroy us from within.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In the middle of laws governing human punishment and inheritance laws, the Torah states a simple prohibition: \u201cYou shall not muzzle and ox while it is threshing (25:4).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The edit seems straightforward and clear: while an animal is involved in the harvest of a crop, it will naturally seek to eat a bit to satisfy its own hunger. We are prohibited to prevent that natural desire, particularly as it is the very labor of the ox that makes our own harvest possible, and as we are seeking to use the crop for food, we ought to be able to understand the urge of the ox to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Some medieval commentators have tried to shift our attention away from the idea that these ideas express an empathy for animals, and extend our notion of belonging and compassion beyond the limits of our own species to include the rest of God\u2019s creatures as well. The law of shooing away a mother bird before gathering the eggs, or of not plowing with an ox and a donkey on the same plow \u2013 these can be explained away for their utility in training human compassion (one who learns to care for an ox will certainly care for a fellow human). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But the problem with that line of thinking is two-fold: first, many people care more for their pets than they care for the poor or minorities in their midst. Second, the Torah itself gives no indication that the law isn\u2019t self-explanatory: don\u2019t do this because it ought not to be done.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    So what if we let the Torah speak for itself? We owe our animal companions and co-workers the recognition that they have needs as do we. They have a sense of self-worth that may not be the same as a human\u2019s sense, but it is real nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Proverbs 12:10 reminds us that the righteous know the needs of their beasts, perhaps because that is one of the requirements of righteousness. We are required not only to be stewards of God\u2019s creation, but also to act as empathic companions and caretakers for our fellow creatures. Bounded compassion is no compassion at all. Our care extends beyond our fellow to the stranger and the alien, and continues to flow beyond them, to encompass the other living beings with whom we share this precious, fragile planet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The Israelites had two enemies in the days of Moses: the Egyptians and the Amalekites. The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. They turned them into a forced labour colony. They oppressed them. Pharaoh commanded them to drown every male Israelite child. It was attempted genocide. Yet about them, Moses commands:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cDo not despise an Egyptian, because you were strangers in his land.\u201d (Deut. 23:8)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Amalekites did no more than attack the Israelites once, an attack that they successfully repelled (Ex. 17:13). Yet Moses commands, \u201cRemember.\u201d \u201cDo not forget.\u201d \u201cBlot out the name.\u201d In Exodus the Torah says that \u201cGod shall be at war with Amalek for all generations\u201d (Ex. 17:16). Why the difference? Why did Moses tell the Israelites, in effect, to forgive the Egyptians but not the Amalekites?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When hate is rational, based on some fear or disapproval that \u2013 justified or not \u2013 has some logic to it, then it can be reasoned with and brought to an end. But unconditional, irrational hatred cannot be reasoned with. There is nothing one can do to address it and end it. It persists. That was the difference between the Amalekites and the Egyptians. The Egyptians\u2019 hatred and fear of the Israelites was not irrational.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Egyptians feared the Israelites because they were numerous. They constituted a potential threat to the native population. Historians tell us that this was not groundless. Egypt had already suffered from one invasion of outsiders, the Hyksos, an Asiatic people with Canaanite names and beliefs, who took over the Nile Delta during the Second Intermediate Period of the Egypt of the pharaohs. Eventually they were expelled from Egypt and all traces of their occupation were erased. But the memory persisted. It was not irrational for the Egyptians to fear that the Hebrews were another such population. They feared the Israelites because they were strong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Precisely the opposite was true of the Amalekites. They attacked the Israelites when they were \u201cweary and weak\u201d. They focused their assault on those who were \u201clagging behind.\u201d Those who are weak and lagging behind pose no danger. This was irrational, groundless hate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    With rational hate it is possible to reason. Besides, there was no reason for the Egyptians to fear the Israelites any more. They had left. They were no longer a threat. But with irrational hate it is impossible to reason. It has no cause, no logic. Therefore it may never go away. Irrational hate is as durable and persistent as irrational love. The hatred symbolised by Amalek lasts \u201cfor all generations.\u201d All one can do is to remember and not forget, to be constantly vigilant, and to fight it whenever and wherever it appears.
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    Chapter 25 lays the scene: there\u2019s a quarrel between two men. \u00a0As they come to blows, the onlooking wife sees her husband struggling and intervenes. \u00a0Boldly, she reaches out and grabs the challenger by the genitals, in an attempt to save her husband. \u00a0The Torah\u2019s response: cut off her hand, show her no pity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This seems like a severe response on the part of the Torah. \u00a0Here, these two men were already fighting. She simply joins the fight in order to help out her husband. \u00a0It\u2019s not even clear that she injures the other party. And, yet we cut off her hand? What exactly is the crime here and why must we show her no pity? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Talmud reads this as a classic case of intent to shame. \u00a0She sent forth her hand and grabbed him by his <\/span>mevush<\/span><\/em>, which quite literally means \u201cto excite shame.\u201d \u00a0As the Talmud makes clear, she reached and grabbed him by this place of shame, in order to humiliate him and for this, we have no mercy. \u00a0But, what happens when we shame someone, without intent? When we shame someone accidentally?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Tractate Bava Kamma goes on to discuss the many different instances in which one person shames another. \u00a0If I\u2019m asleep and while sleeping, I shame someone else, am I liable? If I fall from a roof and in falling, I shame someone, I\u2019m liable for the damage but exempt for shaming. \u00a0Why? Because shaming, as the Talmud explains it, requires intent. If I don\u2019t intend to shame the person, then the shaming doesn\u2019t count and therefore, I can\u2019t be held accountable. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On one hand, this seems reasonable. \u00a0To shame someone is an action that seems to imply a deliberate attempt to cause another to feel shame. \u00a0And, yet, there are all sorts of circumstances where we might shame someone unintentionally. In these situations, when we are made aware after the fact, should we really hold up our hands up and say, \u201cWhoops, not my fault, unintended consequence.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Whether or not we intend it, our actions have consequences and we must take responsibility for them. \u00a0Despite best intentions, we hurt people, we embarrass people, we even shame people, and it\u2019s on us to figure how to do better. \u00a0The law may not hold us accountable but we must hold ourselves to a higher standard.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":51560,"alt":"","title":"dt25-shame","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","width":1280,"height":989,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-300x232.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-768x593.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":593,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-1024x791.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":791,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":989,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":989,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-1200x927.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":927,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-544x420.jpg","home_baner-width":544,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Intent To Shame","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Whether or not we intend it, our actions have consequences and we must take responsibility for them","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":51560,"alt":"","title":"dt25-shame","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","width":1280,"height":989,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-300x232.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-768x593.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":593,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-1024x791.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":791,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":989,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":989,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-1200x927.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":927,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt25-shame-544x420.jpg","home_baner-width":544,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"178","date":"20260505","wall_id":"178"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"412","name":"Responsibility","old_id":"812"},{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"586","name":"Shame","old_id":"986"}]},{"order":16,"id":"51541","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Why Is Amalek Different? 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    After Amalek\u2019s attack, Israel is charged to remember <\/span>and<\/span><\/em> act on this horrific memory: \u201cTherefore, when the Lord your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you... you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!\u201d (Deuteronomy 25:17-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Other nations treat Israel cruelly but do not thereby become objects of enduring enmity. Edom callously refuses Israel passage through its land (Numbers 20:14-21), yet Israel is taught: \u201cYou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother\u201d (Deuteronomy 23:8).<\/span> Egypt enslaves and oppresses Israel for generations, yet the Torah commands: \u201cYou shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land\u201d (23:8). Why is Amalek different? What is it about Amalek\u2019s attack that so incurs the wrath of God?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In cutting down the stragglers in the rear, Amalek commits what to Deuteronomy is the ultimate crime: they are merciless to the weak. Amalek thus represents everything Deuteronomy hopes Israel itself will not be:<\/span> Where Amalek is barbarous and cruel, Israel is to build a society in which the weak and defenseless are protected and cared for.<\/span> Israel disdains Amalek, but at least as important, <\/span>it disdains what Amalek stands for<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In the Jewish imagination, Amalek comes to be seen as the archetype of murderous evil. There is something profoundly disturbing about all this. It is one thing to abhor Amalek\u2019s inhumanity; it is quite another to condemn all Amalekites, present and future, as eternal enemies of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If we wish to employ the language of evil, we must be vigilant lest it pave the way for us to behave in evil ways. The Hasidic master Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev (1740-1809) teaches: \u201cIt seems that not only are the Children of Israel commanded to blot out Amalek, but also every individual Jew must blot out that evil part called \u2018Amalek\u2019 which is hidden in his heart. As long as the seed of Amalek is in the world, since a person is a miniature world (a microcosm), Amalek exists in the evil potential within the person, which awakens anew again and again to cause him to sin\u201d (Kedushat Levi, Purim).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Although Levi Yitzhak no doubt intends to offer a psychological-spiritual interpretation of the mandate to blot out Amalek,<\/span> his comments have important implications for the moral-political realm as well. 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    \u201cRabbinic Courage and Cowardice and its Consequences\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Zahava Stadler: What are the responsibilities of rabbis?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. Whipping.<\/em> That\u2019s an accepted form of punishment. How many lashes? \u201cAs his guilt warrants\u201d (verse 2) - but up to 40 max.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. An ox, for example<\/em> (verse 4). The ox stars in many laws that deal with the treatment of animals (look for him in Ex, 23 e.g.). Probably because he was such an important farm\/work animal.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. Brothers.<\/em> On the one hand, of the biological kind (verse 5), but on the other, the criminal who is whipped is also termed \u201cbrother\u201d (verse 3), as well as the man who gets into a fight with his neighbor (verse 11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. The law in the narrative<\/em>. Whoever wants a good story to understand the law of the levirate marriage (and a few other things as well), is invited to look back about 139 chapters to Ge. 39, and read about the widowed Tamar who waited for her \u201clevir\u201d redeemer who was promised to her (and of course, what happened when that promise was not kept).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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