Insights and Inspiration
from the
Holy Land
from
Rabbi Ephraim
Schwartz
"Your friend
in Karmiel"
March 22nd
2024 -Volume 13 Issue
23
12th of Adar II 5784
Parshat Vayikra- Zachor
Hate Them- Kill Them
We do things differently in my shul than other places. We do them right. On the one hand we are a pretty chareidi congregation. Most of my mispalelim are hard core chariedi kollel guys. Yet we have the prayer for the soldiers, the State of Israel and now for the return of the hostages. I don’t know how any self-respecting Jew can daven in shul that doesn’t have these prayers. Reishit tzmichat geulaseinu… Really? That bothers you…? Grow up. It’s here.
I
speak after kriyat ha’torah on Shabbos morning as American congregation
Rabbis do. People need a good drasha and story Shabbos morning, or at
least a snooze or time to be ma’avir sedra before they come home. And it’s
so much more fun to leave for the Rabbi’s speech, make kiddush in the backroom
or join a breakoff minyan in the yard than sticking it out for the whole service.
This is particularly true for those that only just showed up a few minutes
before Torah reading anyways… See, we aim to please everyone.
We
sing Friday night Carlebach style. We sing the entire Hallel on Rosh Chodesh. I mean the final blessing of Hallel literally
says the word “Vi’yishoriru- and we sing it” … I don’t know how other
congregations even say the blessing without having sung Hallel. When we’ve been
saying Tehillim after prayers we don’t say the standard October 6th
ones that everyone else says. Rather we open it up and read inside the ones
that Hashem chooses for us. We do things different as I said. We do it the only
real way it’s supposed to be done. It’s why we daven nusach sefard too.
But
perhaps one of the most different things that we do is each year before the
Torah reading of Parshat Zachor that we will read this week; I give a speech
that is different than most Rabbi or Gabbai speeches before the biblically
mandated reading. I tell it like it is. See in most shuls the Rabbi or Gabbai
will get up and say something to the effect that the Torah reading of Amalek is
a biblical obligation. One needs to hear every word. There shouldn’t be any
talking. Keep your kids quiet. They will even read it twice in order that some
of the words that have multiple pronunciations are read correctly each way.
This is very important. It’s the only biblical mandated reading. Pay attention…
Blah Blah Blah…
Welcome
to Rabbi Schwartz’s shul now where these is a different speech that is given.
“Hello
everyone. Thank you for coming today. We are about to begin the Torah reading
of Amalek that is done annually. I’d like to preface this Torah reading by
telling everyone that there is absolutely no biblical obligation whatsoever to
hear the reading of the Torah of the story of how Amalek attacked us. There is
no mitzva to hear every single word, although that could be a good thing. There’s
no obligation to hear it read twice. There is a different mitzva though however
which sadly enough we might be the only shul in the world that will be
fulfilling, because of this important speech that I’m giving.
See,
the Rambam is quite clear about what that obligation is. He writes in the Sefer
HaMitzvos as follows.
Mitzva
192- We are commanded to constantly remember what Amalek did to us, i.e., to
be the first to attack us [after we were redeemed from Egypt]; and to speak of
it constantly; to arouse people to wage war against them and hate them, in
order that it not be forgotten or the hatred towards them lessened with the
passage of time. The source of this
commandment …the Sifri says, is the phrase, 'Remember what
Amalek did to you,' refers to doing so verbally. The phrase, 'Do
not forget,' means in one's heart." This means that one should say
verbally words that cause people to keep this hatred in their hearts.”
Similarly,
in his Yad Chazaka he describes the mitzva as one where we are meant to
remember what Amalek has done to us in order to awaken hatred in our hearts, as
it is forbidden to forget this hatred towards them. As I said there is no
mitzva to listen to the Torah reader read from the Torah. There is another
mitzva though.
The
mitzva that we are going to fulfill now in this shul as the Rambam describes is
to be filled with an overwhelming sense of hatred. We are going to be so full
of hate that we will want to go into Amalek villages and slaughter all of them.
Men, women, children. We will want to chop each of them up into little pieces
gleefully. We want to throw their little devil spawn babies into ovens and burn
them on high. We want to carpet bomb them into oblivion. We want to chuck their
old, evil, wheelchaired bound, senior murdering citizens in a river and a sea
and watch the bubbles slowly fizzle out as they scream in pain. We will want to
watch their cities burn to the ground. We will kill every animal. Every puppy
of theirs. We will sing “mishe mishe mishe nichnas adar” while dancing
in the rivers of blood that will flow through the streets.
That
is the biblical commandment that we are going to fulfill now when the Baal
Koreh reads the Torah reading and we remember how evil they are. It’s not and
never has been about saying “zeicher”or “zecher” correctly or
reading it with an Ashkenazi, Sefardi ,Yemenite or Chasidic havara or tune…
It’s about arousing an eternal hatred that wants to avenge and destroy them
deep deep inside of our souls and hearts.
See,
as I said we do it a little differently in my shul. I don’t get why other Rabbis
don’t feel the obligation to inspire their congregations to fulfill the mitzva
properly and give a similar speech.
Now
to be violently honest, although I’ve given this speech every year, I never
really felt it as passionately and graphically as I tried to give it over. I
really don’t like the sight of blood much. I could never really join the army, unless
they just wanted me to be the rah rah guy that riles everyone up, which
incidentally I’m quite good at. But guns and me don’t really go. I have a big
mouth that has gotten me into trouble more often then I can think, but I’ve
never really physically hurt anyone. Sticks and stones and breaking bones are
not me. Name calling though… inflicting severe emotional pain… yeah I’m guilty.
The
truth is I don’t think I’m the only one like that. I’m pretty sure that most of
you readers are as well the non-violent type. You’re Jewish and live in America
after-all. It was probably even difficult for you to even read that last graphic
paragraph-if you’re even still here and haven’t unsubscribed yet. It’s why we’re
so in awe of these brave chayalim of ours that have that fire burning
inside of them like the great Maccabees and the army of Yehoshua and King David.
These guys are the real deal. They’re made out of something biblical. They’re fighting
selflessly in the name of Hashem, in the name of Klal Yisrael. They’re doing the
job that all of us need to be doing. They’re our High Priests.
So
although I’ve never really felt my speech before, this year though is
different. It must be different. This year I think for the first time all of us
can finally tap into that hatred that the Rambam and the Torah really wants us
to have. We can understand it. We need to understand it and feel it. Hashem has
revealed to us the face of evil like never before; the face of Amalek.
But
is Hamas really Amalek? I’m sure many of our yeshivishe friends are
asking that question. After all, Amalek as we know is a descendant of Esau,
while the Arabs are seemingly from Yishmael. Yet Rav Soloveitchik quoting both his
father Reb Moshe and his grandfather the great Reb Chaim of Brisk deduce from
the fact that when the Rambam mentions the mitzva to wipe out Amalek he differentiates
in the way he describes the mitzva to destroy the 7 nations when we come to the
land of Israel from Amalek. By the 7 Canaanite nations the Rambam specifically
notes that the mitzva is inapplicable today as Sancheirev (whom we just learned
about in our Eras column below for those that have ever made it that far down
in this weekly E-Mail to read) mixed up and re”colonized” all of the nations
around the world. Thus, we have no idea who they are. In describing the mitzva
to wipe out Amalek though, the Rambam doesn’t mention this disclaimer. He
writes, as the Torah does, that this is an eternal existential and real battle
and obligation. From this he understands that any nation like Haman that comes
to declare genocide on the Jewish people as part of their mandate, has the
halachic status as Amalek. Boom. End of story. Hate them- Kill them. All of
them.
In
fact there even seems to be a Yerushalmi that notes that Haman himself was
perhaps not even a direct descendant of Hamdasa and the Agagi ,which differs
from the Midrash and Bavli take on him. Rav Soloveitchik thus ruled that the Nazis
YM”SH were Amalekites and one even fulfills the mitzva of remembering and
instilling our hatred for them by studying Holocaust history. Stalin as well
falls into that category. The great Jerusalem sage and holocaust survivor Rav
Gustman Z”L used to tell his students that when he killed a Nazi with his bare
hands back in his partisan days he felt that he had fulfilled the mitzva of
wiping out Amalek. If that is the case, then Hashem has truly brought us this
year to the day when we can finish up the job that King Shaul didn’t, by wiping
out this last remnant of them. By hating them to the core. By understanding
that Humanitarian aid only makes sense if there are humans to receive it. And
by achieving a hatred like we’ve never had before for everything that has a
pulse on the other side of that fence.
There
is an incredible Midrash that the holy Chortokever Rebbi brings that perhaps
can shed light on this unique mitzva. The midrash writes that when Hashem told
the Jewish nation that we need to remember eternally the mitzva to destroy
Amalek, the people turned to God and said
“We
are mere flesh and blood and we are mortal. How can we remember something forever?
Isn’t it better since You are immortal and infinite that You, Hashem, remember
and destroy them?
Hashem
thus responded to them, that all we need to do is read from the Torah portion of
the mitzva to destroy Amalek and He will consider it as if we destroyed them ourselves”
The
Rebbe asks that it is a strange response. Why does Torah reading help as if we
destroyed them? Are the words and emotion really just as good as sticks and
stones, or as missiles, bombs, and AK47s? As well how does this address the
question that we asked of why it wouldn’t be better if Hashem was the One to
remember and destroy them for us? The Chortkover answers that what the Torah
reading does is that it connects us as a nation right back to Egypt. We are the
same people now as we were then. We are still reading the story. We are still
emotionally connected. It is in those days but it is in our times. It is today.
Amalek’s
eternal battle is to disconnect us from that past and from one another. They attack
the weak, the spiritually disconnected, the vulnerable, the ones that perhaps
have even been thrown out of the spiritual camps because of their sins. Amalek’s
fight is against netzach Yisrael- the eternality of our nation that transcends
time and space and even individuals. When we read the Torah and feel that story
that happened and are emotional about it, then we have won them. We have
destroyed them. But it only works if you feel. If you hate. If you understand that
we need to be avenged. That the Shechina can only shine if we eliminate the
source of evil that is sworn to prevent that from happening.
The
truth is I don’t need Rav Soloveitchik to tell me that we are in a battle
against Amalek. I look at our nation and our era now and what they have done to
us, and it is obvious. There is so much unity now. What Amalek did was make us
realize that we are our all brothers and sisters and responsible for one
another. It’s not just some soldier that was killed- it’s my brother, my
son, my husband, my father. It’s not just some kibbutznik or
festival goer that are kidnapped and sitting in Gaza. It’s my sister, my
brother, my little cute red-headed baby. There are no them and us. There’s only
Am Yisrael.
As
well it’s not only Hamas that is our enemy. They are not the only Amalek. It is
the “Free Palestine” idiots. It’s Hezbollah. It’s all of those that are b’chol
dor v’dor omdim aleinu-that stand up on us- as if they are better than us.
As if they have the moral high ground. As if we are the baby-killers. As if we
are the ones that are committing Genocide.
They
stand on us and tell us what we need to do. What we can’t do. Who we can’t
kill. Who they don’t want us to kill. We need to understand that this is not
coming from some type of lack of information. That Hamas and Palestine and
Amalek have a better PR force then Israel does. That missions and hasbara
campaigns and speeches before the UN and International courts and the US
congress will change. They stand on us not because they don’t get it. Rather it’s
because they are out l’chaloseinu- to destroy us. Us is all of us. It’s
the settlers, it’s Yerushalayim, it’s Israel, it’s Lakewood, New York, Gateshead,
London, South Africa and Australia. It’s every Jew in the 127 countries of
Achashveirosh that were perhaps scattered and disconnected before Purim, before
October 7th, but have since discovered that we are all part of one
whole.
What
unites is not just sympathy, chesed, tzedaka, and the prayers that will
help fix the situation and bring them all back. It’s a much stronger emotion.
It’s perhaps the strongest emotion in the world next to love. It’s hate. We’re
a loving and forgiving nation and people. It’s natural to us. Yet we all feel hatred
now as well, each of us to a different degree. We feel hatred towards these
barbarian Amalekites. And we should. We need to. For the less we hate- the less
we love and care.
Why
is hate so important? Why is it so essential? Why is it even more powerful than
love and the strongest emotion one can experience? The answer on a very deep
level is that one can only hate if it’s personal. When we love someone, what we
are doing is expanding our sense of self onto another. It’s loving myself and
he is part of me. I become bigger and bigger and feel warmer and better the
more I love. The more I’m united with someone else. Hate, though is the extreme
opposite.
I
hate someone when they have taken the core of who I am. They have killed me.
They have taken my son or my daughter to Gaza. They have killed my brother or
sister who’s a soldier. They have burned my baby and left me an empty shell- as
the so many mourning that I see daily look like. That’s when hate comes out.
The more I hate, reveals the more I feel they have taken from me. The less I hate,
the more I “get over it”. The more I “move on” and don’t feel
emotional, the more I’m disconnected from myself. The more I’m disconnected
from the person they took from me. From my brother in Gaza, from the ones that
they abused.
That’s
what Amalek wants to achieve. To divide us. To make us not care about one
another. To hit the weak, the ones “outside the camp”. The ones the rest of us
comfortable ones, frummer ones, safer ones, can sort of shake our heads, write
off, shed a tear, perhaps even pray for and say some Tehillim for. But that we
can’t hate for. We can’t want to go out and kill them all for. We don’t feel
enough that it is our personal loss to take the ultimate vengeance for. That’s
what Amalek is banking on. That’s what Hamas is too. And so is your neighbor
down the block in Lakewood, in Congress, on 5th Avenue with his Free
Palestine flag. They’re counting on the fact that we’re not connected enough to
really hate.
On
October 7th we felt that hate and connection though. We feel it when
we see those protestors, when we hear the pain of those suffering. When we see
the obituaries each morning for another fallen soldier and broken family and
when we see those posters of the hostages. Yet it’s been waning for some of us.
People are calling me for tours for Pesach and Sukkos, as if there’s no existential
Messianic war going on right now that will bring Mashiach. This to me is
scarier than Hamas. It’s scarier to our country and its soldiers who are terrified
that all we may be fighting and dying in vain for just another “Tzuk Eitan”
Gaza or Lebanon war. Because we don’t have enough hatred to see it through the
end. To be timcheh es Zecher Amalek.
The
Shemen HaTov writes reads this scenario into the Torah’s commandment itself.
V’haya
b’haniach Hashem Elokecha es kol oiyvecha m’saviv-
and it will be when Hashem removes all our enemies from around you.
When
you don’t feel there’s any threat anymore. When you feel that you’ve restored “security”.
When you’re already ayef v’yageya- you’re worn out and tired from
fighting, from hating, from killing, from the world screaming at you… you’ve
had enough. The Torah then tells us- rather commands us.
Timcheh
es zecher Amalek- wipe them out.
Don’t
stop. Bring it to the end. That is the mitzva that is the biblical commandment
we are meant to think about this week and that we fulfill when hearing every
single word of the Torah reading. Maybe even twice and maybe even in different nusachs.
This year though we need perhaps to hear that Torah reading in Arabic. In Hamas’s
hate-filled language. We need to hear it in Amalekite language, so we learn the
hatred that is not natural to us from them in order to see this through to the
end. To be able to dance with joy at the destruction of the evil that Hashem
has brought us to experience in our Messianic Era. May this year Hashem’s throne finally be
completed with the final eradication of His enemies.
Have
an easy meaningful and generous 😊 fast of Esther a memorable Zachor and a
Fraylichen Purim!
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
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YIDDISH PROVERB OF THE WEEK
" Di
velt hot feint dem moissernik un dem mussernik..”- The world hates the
informer and the moralist.
RABBI
SCHWARTZ'S TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTION OF THE WEEK
answer
below at end of Email
32.The
name of the valley where the Eshkol Reservoir is situated is ___________.
What is
the origin of most of the drinking water in Israel today?
A. The Sea
of Galilee
B. The
Mediterranean
C. Runoff
water
D. Ground
water
RABBI SCHWARTZ’S COOL VIDEO OF THE WEEK
https://soundcloud.com/ephraim-schwartz/yiddelach
– In Honor of PURim MY latest new
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it five times… If You want the Rap at the end… IT’s amazing… Tell me how much
you love it…
https://soundcloud.com/ephraim-schwartz/techelet-mordechai
– Remember this great Rabbi Schwartz
Purim composition! Get into the groove it’s the ultimate Purim Seuda song..
Techlet Mordechai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=copuiawkyCY
- Simcha Leiner 613 Eli Marcus Avi Peretz
Purim!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYGd4HOend4 – This song is
really really amazing- the lyrics are fantastic…but theyre in Hebrew – Giborei Al
by Hatikva 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y61gzf7CByc
– Best and Funniest song of the
week- Amalek Histalek!
RABBI SCHWARTZ’S PARSHA PRAYER
INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK
A Different Type of Salvation- It was 1942 Purim when the Asih
Kodesh, the holy Piacezner rebbe of Krakow wrote this piece. It’s eternal
message resonates today like never before. He notes that the salvation and song
we sing on Purim of Shoshanas Yaakov describes that we experienced this when we
saw the Techelet Mordechai the garments of Mordechai. What does Mordechai’s
clothing have to do with salvation?
He writes that there are two ways Hashem answers our prayers. The first
is the standard one. We ask Hashem, we daven from within according to the
trouble we experience and Hashem answers us. Yet there are times when the tzara
is so great that we can’t even verbalize it. It encompasses us on all levels. We
are enclothed in it. It is the level that Dovid describes as being Tefilla l’ani
ki ya’atof- it is the prayer of the pauper who is ensconced in it from the
outside. He’s wearing his trouble on his garments and thus lifney Hashem
yishpoch sicho- his words just our forth. His cry just fills the world. When
that happens then Hashem utilizes what is called the ohr makif- a light that
surrounds us. That isn’t limited by our internal prayer which is finite by the
body and heart that it comes from. Rather it comes from the outside. It’s all
over. It turns the whole world around.
That is what happened on Purim. On Chanuka we were in Israel still.
We had the Temple. Our trouble was great but it didn’t cover us from all sides.
Thus the miracle was limited. The salvation was a jug of oil. We came back, but
the truth was it wasn’t a long-term salvation as we lost it all very quickly
afterwards. Purim though we were still in exile. We were wearing the “royal
clothes’ of Achashveirosh. We were wrapped in pain and trouble and it
surrounded us. It was then that we knew that the redemption would be an eternal
one. Would be one where everything flipped around. That’s the holiday of Purim.
And that’s why as well each year we begin Purim with the eternal
fast of Esther. We need to experience that sense of exile, of our lives being
threatened, we need to be overwhelmed and it pours out. When we do that then we
can celebrate Purim. Then we can see the redemption. All the holidays we are
told will be nullified when Mashiach comes except for Purim. As well all of the
fasts, the chasidim tell us will be turned into days of joys. Except one.
Taanit Esther- today is eternal. It is the ohr makif. It is being
wrapped in Hashem. That is forever. That is the day that has power like none
other. Let’s utilize this day and bring it up to the salvation that we are
looking for!
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S ERA’S AND THEIR
PLACES AND PEOPLE IN ISRAEL OF THE WEEK
722 BC-Shomronim/ Kuthim- When Sancheirev
exiled our nation he didn’t just throw us out of our land. He repopulated our
holy country with foreigners. The Navi tells us that he moved in nations from Bavel/
Iran from Kuth which is Ethiopia. In case that sounds familiar
to you in this Purim season Achashveirosh’s kingdom reigned from Hodu/
India until Kuth-Yup the same
one…
Now the reason why he did this colonization was
in order that there will be no sense of loyalty to the country that one resides
in. He learned this it would seem from Yosef in Egypt who as well
repopulated the Egyptians all over the country so that when his brothers
came down they wouldn’t feel any more foreginers or persecuted than anyone
else. See, it all starts with the Jews...
Now there are many ramifications as a result of
the above. Our sages tell us that since Sancheirev “mixed up the world”,
the biblical nations such as the 7 nations we are meant to destroy are no
longer the inhabitants of those countries. As well many authorities rule that
even Amalek, unlike what we wrote in our main E-Mail, is as well no
longer a nation that we know whom it is. As well the 10 tribes have been lost
forever according to some because of this repopulation and their eventual
assimilation into their new countries. According to some never to return. This was a big deal on all levels.
Yet the most practical aspect of this bilbul-
mix-up as the Talmud tells us is that it brought to Israel a new nation that
settled in the shomron. They were called the Kuthim and they remain
until today. The Navi tells us that they were idolators but being that Eretz
Yisrael doesn’t tolerate idolatry Hashem sent lions to attack them. Terrified
they turned to Sancheirev who ordered the Rabbis to solve the problem
which they did by teaching them Torah or at least about Hashem and not to
defile the land. They considered themselves converts as a result. Even worse
they eventually after the Purim story when the Jews returned claimed to
be the real Jews. The ones that Hashem really chose. They worshipped Hashem,
the Navi tells us, but they also worshipped their idolatry. Kind of like
Christianity in that way. Some things never change.
Eventually our sages ruled that their conversion
wasn’t proper as it only came out of fear. Yet
until today there are Shomronim who live in the Shomron/ West Bank
area by Mt. Gerizim which they believe is the real Mt Moriah.
They take visitors. They even bring sacrifices. They believe in the written
Torah but not the oral tradition. They’re strange but seemingly harmless people
over-all. But god willing soon, we will return to our borders and once again
have our land back with all of its children and our ancient enemies will be
destroyed.
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S TERRIBLE JOKES OF THE WEEK
V”NAHAPOCH HU!
NO JOKES TODAY…
HA HA HA….
C’mon that’s kind of funny…!
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The answer to this
week”s question is B– This is really insane. I can’t seem to get out of this
50/50 rut. I thought I got this one right and I was wrong. The second part of
the question I got right. I knew that the majority of the water came from
Mediterranean. We have three desalinization plants that takes out all of the
salt. I also know where the Eshkol water reservoir is. I pass it all the time
as I drive through the lower galil. Yet I for some reason wrote that it was in
the Jezreel valley. I was wrong I realized when I saw the answer. The correct
answer is the Netufa valley which is just North of the Jezreel, although it
does from there down into the valley. So another half right and half wrong. Oh
well. At least I’ve still passing this one. So the score is score is Rabbi
Schwartz at 22.5 points and the MOT having 8.5 points on this
latest Ministry of Tourism exam.
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