Parshah Columnists - Zachor

Guest Columnists
The Power of Memory Parshat Zachor It isn't mere coincidence that every totalitarian regime in history, as the first step in cementing its hold on the people under its rule, has first exerted control over their memory... By Chana Kroll 10 Comments		Remember: The Answer to Terrorism When we understand the root and essence of terrorism, we also understand how despite its awful power we can fight it, each and every one of us, until it is absolutely destroyed. By Sara Esther Crispe 40 Comments
Wipe Out Amalek, Today? If the Torah commands the Jewish people to wage an eternal war against the nation of Amalek, why aren’t you seeking out Amalekites to kill? By Aron Moss 108 Comments		Amalek and the Irrational Antisemites of All Generations An Essay on Parshat Zachor Fundamental hatred does not derive from any reason whatsoever, nor does it end when the hater recognizes and is rationally aware of the other's virtues. By Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) 1 Comment
Weekly Sermonette
Remember but Rejoice There is a danger that our children may grow up knowing more about the Holocaust than about Judaism. By Yossy Goldman 12 Comments		Who Needs Anti-Semites? There is nothing superfluous in G‑d’s world. So what is the purpose of an anti-Semite? Just that—to remind Jews that they are Jewish! By Yossy Goldman 22 Comments
Reflections on the Parshah
A Time to Battle As Jews, we are faced by two different types of enemies; one G-d battles, the other is our responsibility By Zalman Posner 1 Comment		Moses' Heavy Hands Moses didn't become hoarse; his hands became heavy. Is it because speaking is always easy? By Zalman Posner 1 Comment
Life's Passages
A Lesson From Timna the Concubine Vayishlach Timna’s actions seem righteous and altruistic. Why would this result in a child who represents the very paradigm of evil? By Chana Weisberg 34 Comments
Parshah Messages
Haman's Luck Haman and Amalek both used the same failing strategy. What was this plan, and why did it fail? By Naftali Silberberg 2 Comments		Embrace Your Inner Ice On Fighting Ice with Ice How do we fight inner coldness? Well, the most obvious antidote to ice is heat. With enough heat you could melt a glacier. But there's another way... By Naftali Silberberg 14 Comments
Inner Stream
The Skeptic The skeptic can destroy, in an instant, understandings and commitments that take years to establish. What makes it difficult to contend with is his imperviousness to argument or debate. This is the spirit of the Biblical Amalek... By Lazer Gurkow 10 Comments
Parshah Musings
Hatred Can Judaism condone hatred? Or perhaps the question really is -- does a failure to hate evil constitute a tacit approval of its existence? By Elisha Greenbaum 4 Comments
Comment
War Love is the hallmark of Judaism; some of us even claim that we taught that word to the world. This Shabbat, however, we will stand in our synagogues and listen to a reading from the Torah that tells us to hate. By Yanki Tauber 16 Comments		The Kabbalah of the Neck The head is obviously a critical piece of machinery. Would it not have been more judicious to put it in a more protected place, perhaps somewhere deep within the body's bulk? By Yanki Tauber 11 Comments
More Parshah Articles
On Memory		Zachor Haftarah Companion For an informed reading of I Samuel 15:2–34 The haftarah recounts the story of a time when Amalek was almost eliminated, but not quite entirely. By Mendel Dubov
Covenant & Conversation
The Face of Evil After 9/11, when the horror and trauma had subsided, Americans found themselves asking what had happened and why. Was it a disaster? A tragedy? A crime? An act of war? It did not seem to fit the pre-existing paradigms. And why had it happened? By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Beyond Speech
On the Haftarah: Going Beyond For the haftarah of Zachor, From the Teachings of the Rebbe The haftarah begins with Samuel the prophet giving G‑d’s command to Shaul to utterly wipe out Amalek. By Yitzi Hurwitz