Amalek is the psychic and cosmic nemesis of all that is pure and G-dly in man and in creation. How is he overcome? The key lies in a single word: "Remember"
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Without Faith it is impossible to please G-d.
I very much liked the article.
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actually, in truth, and simply...what is truth and what does it mean to you.....SIMPLY....
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what do i have to remember about amalek........
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"Bottleneck": How often has one admired the perfect sculptured face and profile of the great Queen of Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti, which is housed in the Berlin Museum.. And how often does one wonder why the scullptor seemed to exaggerate her long narrow swanlike neck angled so perfectly to allow her head to balance so precariously and yet it has never toppled.
In this article by the Rebbi on the understanding of "Amalek", I believe lies the 'Truth' behind the sculptor's creative moulding of Nefertitii. . Her long narrow 'bottleneck' conveys the symbolic meaning of 'Mitzrayim'. A lesson that the Jewish people have learnt since their great Exodus from Egypt. Was this lesson already experienced by Queen Nefertiti and her husband, Pharaoh/King Akhenaton, the "heretic king" whose unacceptable belief in 'monotheism' lead to his mysterious end by a military coup and uprising of the 'pagan' priests.
Did Moses grow up in their Royal Court?
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I have read this parshah article several times over the years, I think. It is one of my favorites. I think looking at Amalek as a personification of either doubt or not having faith makes sense.
Thanks for putting it up again for us to re-read this week.
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Is the idea to change the meaning of malak, to melek, so that his name is erased in meaning, and all that remains is the Moshiach HaMelek?
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In my own exodus from feelings to Truth and in the battle of who will control the being, I still wonder why G-d would allow me to be in such a position at all. I think this is the question that so many ask today, perhaps even w/o asking aloud. Why would G-d allow His people to be in such a vulnerable position in the first place? Perhaps that is really the question for me in these lean days when the heavens seem shut and G-d seems so distant. Is He calling to the Amalek in me to come out and show himself for the traitor that he is? Is it to root out all of Mitzrayim that is still in me, though my sojourn has brought me so far toward Canaan?
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"A Moral Reckoning," Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
T. Jefferson's letter to S. Kercheval, 19jan1810
"The New Pearl Harbor,"Griffin/Google/Scholar
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Was Amalek in Italy, or his descendants. Are the descendants of Amalek some of the first to settle in Italy.
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It is written that the Edomites are the Romans. However, it is a longer stretch to say that the Amalekites (who are also from Esau's clan) are the Romans.
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