Who is Amalek Today? | Rabbi Mordechai Burg

as jews we have an obligation to wipe out the amalekite nation from upon this world who were the amalekites they were a nation that had an inborn hatred to judaism we did nothing wrong they had no reason for their hatred their only purpose in this world was to destroy god's people and so we had no choice kill or be killed wherever a jew walked if an amalekite saw them they would attempt to kill them and so we had an obligation to wipe them out from the face of the world today the amalekite nation no longer exists they've assimilated into the world and as a result the hatred is not felt in the same way so how do we wipe out amalek today we all have a little amaleki inside of us it's called unhealthy cynicism doubt we look at the world and we can choose to be cynical we can look at the world and say people today they're not really good no one's really trying to make the world a better place but these thoughts are toxic the world is a beautiful place god created such an amazing world and our mission is to reveal god in this world and cynicism is the enemy of change so our responsibility today is to destroy that amalekite height and part inside of ourselves that's our responsibility as purim approaches and this is the holiday that celebrates the destruction the victory over amalek we have an opportunity to look inside of ourselves to confront our own unhealthy cynicism and with joy to erase all of the amalekite inside of ourselves