TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Tetzaveh - Do You Despise Successful People?

you told this to me he came here from europe as a child as a boy of 14 13 or 14 years old and the laws in those days were that they were sponsored by the hayas by the american jewish organizations that placed refugees immigrants and they didn't want all the refugees and immigrants to settle in new york they were afraid they're going to get wasted a little bavitch and a little bubba and a little sacrament they got that anyway but they were hoping to avoid it and they spread them all over the country so this person and his family was situated in philadelphia and at that time in philadelphia there was a shliya by pope allah and now there was a young laboratory boy stuck in philadelphia because of the rules of the hayas so he was very excited about helping ravi popek do his work so repopek used to ask him to distribute things for him and so forth so once on a friday he asked him to distribute leaflets about a messier shabbos and he went from shoulder shoal and put on leaflets for the mercedes chavez in those days in philadelphia there were a number of all the bachelor faced basically and so forth there were many many there used to be hundreds and hundreds of the bachelors all over the united states there were no sahari they were not necessarily and he walked into one of these schools and he put down the papers and in el tarayit an older fellow calls him over and says what are you doing he says i'm putting out leaflets a little babbage is organizing mercedes shabbos little children who go to public school are going to get together and so forth he says show me the piece of paper so he shows him the the the note he reads it and he looks up at him and he makes one of those typically russian i can say it i'm rushing myself cynical comments just loved afghanistan you don't necessarily have to give this out and for this young lubavitch who just come from europe to hear that kind of cynicism that kind of throwing ice on his passion and reigning on his parade you know lobavich was starting out there was such enthusiasm such excitement and an old fellow probably his own children weren't even from was saying you know this may not be such a good idea it's a classic example of a molec and perhaps this person's intentions were you know he was an old-timer and he would hide the sky to him was davening and avery whoever heard allah is doing messi shabbas kind of but it's amalek nevertheless and the essence of amulek is his whole mo his entire purpose is to take away some of your passion just do what you're doing don't be so excited there's the famous mahmet of of amalek zocher from 1905 from the rebel ashab which was of course repeated with extensive commentary by the priesthood in 1927 both my mother are now published and the rebera shop's version is much shorter the peterbis rebe's version especially when it gets to the actual description of the amolex is far more elaborate and he describes different amoleks different techniques one is you see a person who's excited about judaism and yeah you make fun of him you call them shallow simplistic you know overly emotional and they're all different categories like the one that stands out in my memory is a person who says we're intellectuals we are sophisticated and deep and nuanced inclined or nuanced disposed sophistication and subtlety and nuance doesn't allow itself as such passion and since we study hasidis and we understand the intricacies of the subtlety of of said and so forth and so on we don't allow ourselves such excitement that's amalek too even if it's an amalgam based on a sophistication and even a supposedly religious sophistication it's all a molecule you