How Can It Be Moral to Wipe Out an Entire Nation?
One of the most difficult questions in the Torah is the commandment to wipe out the nation of Amalek. How can Judaism, a religion based on kindness and the value of life, command the total destruction of a people? In this Stump The Rabbi video, Rabbi Shloma Majeski addresses this moral dilemma • Read More, Watch
One of the most difficult questions in the Torah is the commandment to wipe out the nation of Amalek. How can Judaism, a religion based on kindness and the value of life, command the total destruction of a people?
In this Stump The Rabbi video, Rabbi Shloma Majeski addresses this moral dilemma. He explains why Amalek was treated differently than the Egyptians (who enslaved the Jews for centuries) and introduces the concept of spiritual germs.
Just as a surgeon must sometimes remove an infected limb to save the patient, the Torah identifies certain forces that are a threat to the existence of the world itself.
Rabbi Majeski also discusses the dangers of misplaced mercy how having compassion for the cruel eventually leads to cruelty toward the innocent and connects this idea to historical and modern events.
This project was made possible by The Chanin Fund and YZ BIZ INC
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