#530: Amida: V'Lamalshinim (Part 12)

[Applause] Sni series is gener respons by the Saka family and as well by a for we are towards the end of the of the 19th the additional BR that was inserted composed by shm coton solicited by Gamel II during the time of theban and the Jewish people were threatened threatened the greatest threat was not to their physical well-being but ideologies that sought to compromise and corrupt the future of the Jewish people as we know so we're up to the words we wish that the now we know who are our enemies we've never had a shortage of enemies every Jewish holiday has some reference to defeat of our enemies from the Sim at the rashash table and all the things that we eat with the hope that'll destroy our enemies will open the door and welome on on P to the grogger trying to blot out the name of H we never have a short of of enemies we know how to define is an enemy who are the Z the Zim that we wish what do we hope for them not just one thing not one bad thing we want uproot Crush route out subdue who are these Z what do you have in mind what's the kavana what is the intention when you say this word Zim the simple understanding of the word Zim we know that a person can violate hashem's will and word in one of two ways could do it P shog shog means accidental by accident what does the word maid mean intentional on purpose so the simple understanding of the word Zim are those who violate the will in the word of Hashem but it intentionally brazenly it's not accidental and they're not indulging their Temptation or the desire not but Z are the are the people who are those who intentionally defy the will and the vision of Hashem for his world that's those are the Zim butab has a different interpretation RAB says that the Zim are the Zim are those individuals who are conspired to uproot yish kite ideologies that are not threatening the Jewish people physically but Zim are those who maliciously and meth and strategically Ally are trying to compromise and corrupt the Jewish values and Jewish lifestyle Jewish continuity not by physically eliminating us or threatening us but by introducing ideas that are forign to our ideology by getting us to assimilate by getting us to Forfeit who we are and our distinction they're conniving in so many ways these Zim if we Define this so broadly if we describe it so broadly these Zim have so many different methods so many different method that we need different words in order to offset in order to undermine in order to prevent them in fact R Schwab says the Zim he included in his time schab of course came from Europe and was the RV he was in Baltimore and then he was the RV of the Yi community in Washington Heights in brers and in his time he said included in the Zim are the practices of Communism and missionaries missionaries communism which was a danger and threat in his time and the and the philosophy the ideology of Communism if it would seep in to the Jewish people and the the work of missionaries who try to knock on the door literally who try to insert themselves within the Jewish people and and try to get us to abandon our fundamental beliefs for Schwab they were who we should have in mind the cavana that we have these are the Zim and what's our wish what do we want to have happen to them s at least four separate things we really want to Wallop them we really want to knock them out we really want to prevent them and stop them why do we have four separate things others by the way defined differently the says anyone who wants to make Sor for CLA Isel those are called Zim Zim are those who want to make Sorrows for CLW Isel so what do we want to have happen how do you define the differences we don't have St synonyms we wouldn't waste our time by being repetitive or redundant even though those are two synonyms that seem to say the same thing so what are the what do these words mean so say means to uproot what do you do when you uproot something it can't come back if you cut some poison off but you leave the root that root can germinate that root can return the root can come back so our is that any movement that's trying to undermine and corrupt any movement that's trying to take Jews away from Judaism should be uprooted not just it should be ineffective in the particular plan but it should be entirely and utterly uprooted say means it should break is to break why do we want to break them means they should be broken into various factions so they'll be ineffective if you take a group and they are determined let's say to make the lives of Jews miserable and now you introduce something that makes them among themselves so now you've broken them into factions now you create infighting so they won't be able to they won't be able to harm the Jewish people means even more than S also to break them up but not in large pieces it means into small pieces almost insignificant almost IND discernible where you can't even find them and what's s the last one it means to Humble them that even after you've uprooted or broken or you ground them down into small pieces whatever is left should be humbled and rendered harmless because they're so humiliated and ashamed they're so humbled that they can't be effective in any of their effort to harm or to aggravate the Jewish people so leavea the question that we'll pick up with next time s to be humbled which is the which is the best and which is the worst in this list of synonyms to be humbled I would think humbled is the best humbled is not great but it's a lot better than being crushed than being ground than being destroyed than being uprooted so why do we end with s first thing we should say is let them be humbled if they're not humbled destroy him uproot him knock him down break them up grind them up why is s the last one why is it the very last one we'll pick up with that next time