Bs”d
Parshas Tetzaveh-Zachor (5767)
by Mordechai Dolinsky
The Medrash 36:3 in our sedra brings a Chazal that the learning of Torah equips us with a benefit that we can lighten up the surrounding darkness. This is a fringe benefit which is surely critical for us in this dark time of ikvisa demishicha. We are equipped with a powerful flashlight but we must turn it on.
Now, for this year’s insight into the wickedness of Amalek. What outstanding unique trait did they see in us that they felt so obligated to mercilessly attack a nation of innocent men, women and children, barely survivors of hundreds of years of tortured slavery imposed by the Egyptians? The one and only unique trait we have which our father Avraham acquired and passed on to us in the form of the creation of a great nation is the PURE BELIEF IN HASHEM. This is our uniqueness and what they saw in us that motivated their wicked desire to destroy us. Amalek—a nation that there is implanted in their very fiber the ideal and mentality to viciously destroy people who represent the truth. Machoh Timche es zecher Amalek.
Have a wonderful Shabbos and a joyful, significant Purim.