#526: Amida: V'Lamalshinim (Part 8)

is respons s family and well for we're up to the in which we in which we beseech Hashem to those influences those corrupt powers that seek to undermine and compromise the continuity of our M of our tradition that they are undermined they're purged that they are unsuccessful we mentioned why does begin with a V several people corrected me it's not the only also begins with there might be an important difference between them but two begin with We are continuing the that came before what's the kavana who do we have in mind and what do we have in mind we're looking to eliminate and to purge this is arguably the harshest of the bros we're invoking very strong and powerful language we're asking Hashem to decimate and obliterate and Destroy we're a very peaceful people and yet we're invoking language of Destruction and who is it it targeted who is it aimed at who are we meant to be thinking about so that one is May the when we think when we think about the evil pernicious influence and attempts the plans and the plots of so every day we have the opportunity to fulfill this mitah when during we think about the of our time I let you fill in the blank who that is and we D that they are unsuccessful interestingly sort of the kavana we should have in is not only the enemy from without it's not only the amalik who is some other nationas and asbah and Iran and others but the kipos the influence and the energy of amalik that is penetrated into us that is in our own heads in our own mindsets again snippit and Y come together the shabas is shabas z of course m shabas is purum and we know that part of the Mitzvah of destroying amalik is not only the genetic Nation from without of amalik but it means the influence the force of amalik that is within us and what is the force of amalik everyone knows amalik is the same gatria as not everybody knows amalik is the same gatria as saik as doubt amalik attacked us while we were weaken from behind they were the first nation to attack us when we came out of MIT and they've never stopped since they continue to attack us and they attack us not only with traditional weapons but they attack us with ideology and philosophy that voice in our own head that's filled with suff what if what if he's not real what if I don't have to be doing this what if there is no world to come what if what if suff the doubt that is the voice of am and we have to obliterate we have to destroy that sense of aik so the said when we're doing we're not only thinking about yenim the other the other denomination or ideology or philosophy or enemy we're talking about within our own selves the kipa that negative energy that's influenced that's penetrated into us and that is trying to fill us with doubt and uncertainty and the voice of heresy in us the voice of in us the voice of doubt that says Don't D stay in bed don't be sotic in mitz don't be so firm and fanatical and right-wing that voice that tries to weaken us that voice that tries to Splash cold water on our fire which was aik the same voice of aik that says it's all random and chance and coincidence you're on fire you heard some Shmo that you're on fire this since October 7th you're on fire aik comes along and splashes cold water on that fire tries to put it out and we do that to ourselves we have that voice in our own head and says the based on the that Theo one of the cavanas of one of the Cav is to eradicate that voice of from within us the voice of the voice of the that is within our own heads writes this is not a happy should be said with a broken heart when we have a broken heart it's very sobering the challeng is from without and the challenge that we confront when we're honest with ourselves from within who we we are then there's a sh there's a sense of being Ackle broken Ackle brokenhearted over this and the also where he expands in his on this he also says when we're employing these terms when we're asking we're asking Hashem whatever walls and barriers there are that are blocking us from EMS from truth and from inspiration from positivity also get rid of them destroy them obliterate them those voices those influences that are also compromising and corrupting us Hashem help us overcome them help us eliminate them help us have a filter literally and figuratively from them let them not bring us down let them not bring us down as well we begin the with what does the word literally mean finally ready to begin teing the bra what isim are the Slanders the famers informers says you know we begin the by thinking about the informers those who were most certainly in Antiquity in some ways even until today we have informers we have those who go to the government and we have those who NE Jews themselves who stand up on the floor of the Senate we have those who who give cover who stand up and they slander the Jewish people they slander the ethical moral soldiers of the IDF they slander the moral Clarity of a war to eliminate an enemy they stand up and they slander and they inform they're trying to Curry favor that's wres why did the informers why were they most there in the past because they would Curry favor the government they would get votes they'd win over a block a Progressive uh Community they were K favor so they were they would slander and they would inform and they would speak negatively and we DAV that let there be no hope to their plan let there be no hope to their wishes and wants to the speeches that they're giving is still true today as much as it ever was