Parshat Ki Tetzei: Wiping Out Amalek - Rabbi David Kaplan

I you tarik a look at page 10 66 and this is the what we read on the midst of a blotting out I'm awake okay so I went make sure that this is a hundred percent clear it sounds like this so Horace I sure assalamu like remember what imma like you did to you top of page 1066 but they're a bit say semi meets ryan when you were on your way out of Egypt I assure coracle by Dara the word core claw is closely related to the Hebrew word car which is what cold right now it also means karkar they happened to cross you by zenith the qaakil an officially Maharaja they struck those of you who are all the way the back hindmost the article translated by if a guy you were tired of worn out below your ELO came in that fearing of God some say that refers to amo like that I'm Alec didn't fear God and some say that refers to the Jewish people so then the Torah says the hiya by neha sharma català call me color beckham issa thieve when he come into the land of israel you finish all your Wars bar it's a shimogawa no se na fanaka which language God gives you the inheritance larita team chat as a her I'm awake macaque accession I me must blot out the memory of amalek Leticia do not forget ok this is the midst of the blot out the memory of them awake now I'm all like is the ultimate arch enemy of the Jewish people and the halacha is that we are going when the base of meters is rebuilt and we have a king we are going to have to go to war against I'm Molly can kill every man woman child and animal of amalek anything he has a Malik's name attached to it we're going to have to kill now let's try to an estate assets as a proper bruh different so what did I Molly could do first of all and second of all how do we justify such a thing how do we justify going and killing going Kelly wiping out all the entire imma like nation so what I like did wrong was like this first of all the Jewish people are crossing the desert to go to land of Israel and i'm awake who were not under any threat imagine somebody who is traveling from somebody's traveling from Chicago to New York and then somebody from Florida comes to attack them on the way you're running on his threat we're headed up over there we're headed north what do you buddy what are you getting involved or were we a threat to you why are you attacking us what do you what are you starting up with us for and the sure is because I'm elected to attack us if you feel threatened is one thing I'm all like felt threatened on an ideological level in other words we don't like your approach to life fellas and therefore we're going to try to attack you what was the approach they don't look so the Jewish people Jewish people were on you know we're on a roll the Jewish people were on an 11 game winning streak it should happen to the Cubs soon say a main the Jewish people the Jewish people were on an 11 game winning streak what happened ten plagues in Egypt the splitting of the sea there wasn't a person in the world who had any doubt about God's divine providence that the Jewish people are special everybody saw it it was clear the Egyptians saw it the world saw it everybody you know the meddra says that when to see split all water in the world split so guys the mo of drinking tricky cup of water all centers right to the splitting and say next he knows running down some both sides of his Jay go up there a guy's doing an Olympic dive you know you don't you know with it was a 9.7 degree of difficulty and also the water in the pool splits that's a real bad time aight where that happens yeah as a real bed the bed time for that day all the water in the world split the mattresses that means everybody in the world was aware of the split ago see an 11 game winning streak where you see clearly the hand of God and also one wise guy comes along and says look it happens you get lucky couple hits in the ninth to walk off in the 14th yeah yeah yeah I don't believe it I don't buy it up think the pitcher is that good I don't we'll take him on we're not afraid all right so what happens I think the best example is Mike Tyson early in his career before he left his vegetarian habits her earlier early in his career Mike Tyson was under mike says it was untouchable if you lasted two rounds with febuary you know he's untouchable guy could hit it couldn't get punch through a brick wall and get a certain point is very intimidating amantha guy gets in the ring with Mike Tyson it gets pummeled that he gets in one shot gets it one shot that creates up a tomar I'm time not going to go near the guy one guy got in one shot was again in one shot you know maybe maybe getting another shot Raschi compares the Jewish people a bunch of people are standing on a boiling hot mikvah you ever been to the mikvah is here in Israel so I'm gonna because they have three degrees of heat there's hot hotter and hottest in the mikvah some of these are boiling and and and the Jewish people the rashi compares Claudius early Jewish people to a boiling hot bath a boiling hot mikvah everybody's standing around and nobody wants to jump in one guy comes along and says I'm not scared and he jumps it what happens if he gets burned sizzle but it cools off the water and everybody well okay you know maybe we can get a get a get my foot and get my airman it cools off it chills you off the Jewish people nobody would start up with them we just saw the divine providence God is on your side guys helping them 11 in a row over here a male comes off that's why the Torah says I share cork ha vadera that's why I said to you the word karka means he cooled you off you were hot you were on a winning streak nobody wanted to go dear you he cooled you off woohoo they got smitten the first battle but it was worth it because it breaks there's a certain aura of invincibility against the Jewish people and I'm male comes long as they could bleed also they could bleed also it's not quite what you think it is it's a battle of ideology it's a battle of ideology you know it's a numerical value of homologous anybody North American value of our guys and I n is 70 mem is 40 how much are we up to 110 lomb it is 30 how much are we up to 140 and a cuff is a hundred so what are we up to 240 the numerical value of amalek is Suffolk which is doubt doubt is there a god or there's not a god that's exactly what I'm all equines yeah there was a miracle yeah the sea split well you know maybe it was because the way the winds were blowing and maybe every once in a while there are frogs that only hassle Egyptians are not Jews and maybe there's thunder there there there there there there's nobody called the hailstones that only kill certain people and not other people it may be in other words they cast a doubt into what we should know as a certainty that's the idea of destroying physical I'm awake why do you have to destroy even kill even imma like babies the amolik baby represents even small doubts what we're our job is to kill physical I'm awake but symbolically we're wiping out spiritual I'm alike as well did you should live with no doubt as to the existence of God and God's presence in his life even more than that let's try to get this in a proper perspective imagine you're walking through the streets of Austria in 1895 around there's a woman pushing a baby in a carriage say now Adolf don't cry and you look in there you see a little baby Adolf at that little mustache of his and in bed and Ada and Adolf is crying right and at that moment you experience for the first and only time in your life you experience prophecy in its authentic legitimate prophecy and the prophecy you receive is you have a chance to kill this baby now if you don't you're the last line of defense between this baby and what he's going to do 45 or 50 years from now and you get a prophecy from God without any doubt what do you think morally you should do not kill the baby okay not kill the baby on a divine prophecy okay so some people will say you shouldn't and some people make a very good argument for saying that you should right that's why they're some will make that argument and someone bid on the other hand you just got a prophecy and you receive the prophecy for a reason there's a reason you got the prophecy prophecy then just have a good you I just have to get ready there's reason prophecy generally means that you're supposed to take action okay it's only an example the Torah is a book of prophecy the only reason we have this book we have this for prophecy what Moshe received from God wasn't a conversation most reason I was a prophetic communication the prophecy tells us if you don't destroy am I like they're going to destroy you and it's that quite like you smile you know what it's like it's like what you're learning about the guevara right now he's a road Dave he's a pursuer he's going to pursue you and therefore the Torah says you have to wipe out all of them all like if you don't destroy a body they're going to destroy you and therefore the God that created them says I want the same way that I created you I created them and I'm telling you that your job is to destroy them that's what the Torah wants with them I like to destroy the physical i'm awake until they're going to be a physical threat to the Jewish people and certainly to destroy spiritual Moloch which are going to try to undermine our entire approach to life they're going to try to cast the doubt that's the idea of killing out of maleic now Malik we don't know for a fact who's Emma like there are commentaries that say any time you see virulent anti-semitism anybody who is vocally a virulent anti-semite it means he's probably it is likely he has a Malik I'd blood in him we are not allowed to kill I'm like nowadays we don't know for sure who is I'm awake and it is against the law of the land and you go to jail therefore we are not allowed to kill a Moloch nowadays other than white sox fans we do not know who is a Malik nowadays and therefore therefore we are not allowed we are not allowed to kill we're not allowed to kill we're not allowed to kill i'm awake nowadays are not to kill Moloch and the other end and the other end realize that it is a tour a command like any other tour grant and at the time the base of meters and a king is established then there will be a mitzvah there will be a Mensa ticular imma like that's what it says now I want to explain something else when when it says over here they the vayas Anna the hawk colon official America in line for the top it says they how did the article translate struck those of you that were hindmost any buddy know what a sign of is in Hebrew a tale a tale vayas a name is a verb form of they tale ified you write for lack of a better word they tale ified you now pay attention carefully the commandery say the meddra says do you know what I'm elected to the Jewish people anybody that it caught they cut off the male organ which with any imagination looks like a tail and they threw it upwards anybody they capture they cut off the male organ and they threw it upwards what oh just a buddy a bunch of it sounds like that sounds like Isis you know whatever I do a bunch of a bunch of a bunch of sadists oh yes they're about to say this but obviously if the metra sh tells it to us the meadows is trying to communicate an idea over here what does that mean what does I mean they cut off the Bruce Vilas that they threw them upwards so the meddra says so the answer is like this where is the first brissa meal in history aroma be no interesting why is bris milah done on the eighth day anybody know the blood of the baby congealed oh the vitamin that's responsible for a clotting vitamin K reaches peak levels on the eighth day interesting coincidence isn't it and and so they way to go that's why the British Mueller's though this one of the reasons the other reason is that the number eight is the number that transcends the physical limitations of the world the number eight is always a number of miracle konica is eight days and bris milah is done on the eighth day for a reason the Brisby luck represents the organ of reproduction obviously which represents future generations now let me ask a question take any sport you want pick the n-c-double-a tournament i was going to say ncsy right pick the n-c-double-a tournament pick a gulf to pick a golf tournament pic pic pic pic that pic the football season english football also will even go to woman sports right anything you want well they it pick any any sport that you want okay now i want you to pick one team that's going to win the NCAA tournament i'll take the turn i'll take the field I want you pick one team and I'll take the field or I'll reverse it you take the field and i'll pick one team what would you do what would you do I wouldn't pick the team in the n-c-double-a too many upsets I would take the field you always better off taking the field except when Tiger Woods was at its peak you're always better off taking the fear pigging and pick in the field no field meeting the rest of the teams or the rest of the teams right what's a better bet to pick one team unless it's an obvious thing like Michael Jordan's Bulls oh did I mention I'm from Chicago unless it's an obvious unless it's an obvious thing you're going to pick you're going to pick a wedding all went biking orden was played the year that he retired before he retired the Bulls were five to two favorites to repeat as soon as he retired they became 25 to 1 right so so that tells you something about Michael Jordan okay see you i'll give you the field all right now it's always a safer bet in most sports is a safer bet picking the field it's too unpredictable you know one guy may let air out of footballs they need to get another guy where do you go you never know what's gonna happen if they try to pick one football day one guy could get injured one guy who knows what's gonna happen okay God's is that a verb aveeno imagine you're there at the time and I'm going to show you a prophecy now you're Abraham and I'm going to show you a prophecy this is what your descendants have to get through in order to survive they have to get through the Egyptians the Babylonians the Greeks the Romans the Crusaders the Inquisition the Nazis the Arabs this is what your children have to get through the to survive if you had a bet at the time of our movie know which side would you take that they're going to survive early and get destroyed at some point along the line I mean you're you're playing a strong field over there so God says arena I'm giving you a bris Sibylla you know bris milah means that your descendants represent represented by the organ of reproduction are represented by the number eight the number eight means that were beyond natural law the Jewish people survive because there is that divine intervention special divine intervention watching over Jewish move that's why we're here otherwise it would that make any sense at all that's why priests Laila represents now does it make a little bit more sense when our mullick cuts off the brits Mila's and they throw them upwards understand what they're doing there is already doing that they're saying hey you could take all of that divine reventon nonsense here here you go there was their whole fight was against divine intervention I don't believe in miracles that I believe in the splitting of the sea and bris milah which irritates the heck out of us because you're trying to make a statement that the reason you're here is because you've got special protect oh you know what we think of that here you could have it back that's what we think of it that's a statement that I molecules making and therefore since they are battling us idea it's an ideological battle that's why by the way by the way that's why you took aveeno is born you ever wonder why is he it's like a vinos name yet look what does the name you took me laughter means laughter means laughter and who's he born to avril lavigne who is very old in a sari ebay know who is already beyond childbearing years she's barren can't have children acquired what a vision she doesn't even have a womb and he hits like is born to a sarcastically supernatural cosecha why is it why is it to instill in us the understanding that the existence of the Jewish people beyond zits transcends nature that's the only reason we're here otherwise it would have been wiped out long ago that's why his name is laughter how's that you know that laughter bits you know the left or of your soul means sure they left they both love you laughter really means when do you laugh in life you laugh when something is completely absurd it's absurd it's completely out it's completely out of out of character out of context or what's happening when a man in a three-piece suit dressed to the T sharpest can be is waka it slips out a banana peel you'll laugh right it even happened in your life right it's completely out of it we shouldn't laugh but we do when somebody beds down to reach our these splits his pants you laugh why do you laugh because they say you know i'm here to present united states beds out he splits his pants everybody in rubic you know even though even the democrats would laugh right because because it's completely out of character yeah it's like is born it's so absurd it's a laugh we laugh because ridiculous absolutely ridiculous do you know there's an interesting phenomenon people who are sitting Shiva people morning for a relative it is very common that at a certain point during the Shiva period they get the giggles you know where that's coming from no that's really coming from because the idea of death is ridiculous he was here he was with us he was he was he was part of us and now he's gone the idea is so absurd that it triggers off a certain type of laughter that laughter is often followed by followed by crying but it triggers off a laughter because it's absolutely absurd that's where it's at comes up that's what the recipe is and that's what I bollock isn't so we have an obligation to try this try that all right gentlemen cadena merits