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Don’t We Also Believe in Genocide?

How Can We Wipe Out Amalek?

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Rabbi YY's answers a Teenager's question during a recent Teen program. To watch the full program, go to: https://theyeshiva.net/7482

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Aryeh Goldman -3 years ago
Wow. Thank you! How does this explain the 7 nations? They also had wanted to kill us all?
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Anonymous -3 years ago
Yeshua sent the seven tribes a letter (at 1:21 in the vid)? And it was a secret for nearly 3000 years? You have to do better than that.
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  Isaac -3 years ago
  what was a secret? it says in the talmud, written almost 2000 years ago.
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  - Anonymous -3 years ago
    The source given is Maimonides quoting 'the Gemara alshami' (???) - I don't recognize the quoted source, but the Gemara was written around 500 a.d., so the letter was a secret for 1500 years. Still, that's a non-starter.
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    - Anonymous -4 months ago
      Just because you personally never came across the source about Yehoshua sending these letters, it doesn't mean it was a 'secret' for thousands of years.
      
      This is a very well-known pshat.
      
      Also, the Gemara was written much later, but untill then, the Torah Shebal Pe was taught by word of mouth. It wasn't written down for many years as you say, but it was still well known and it was taught over by word of mouth that Yehoshua sent these letters.
      
      It was certainly not a 'secret' suddenly being revealed!!
      
      Does that answer you?
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P. Fried -4 years ago
Pretty good answer. But the simplest answer is, that Hashem is the one who commanded us to do that. Hashem created everyone, including Amalek and Cannan, and He has the ultimate authority to require that.

That is the infinite difference, between killing Amalek, and the horrendous behavior of the Nazis Yemach Shemam.

See the story of Shaul and Agag in Sefer Shmuel, and Shmuel's response to Shaul.
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Abraham -4 years ago
This question almoset made me cry....

It indeed makes us feel guilty, and finaly a place to to bring up this topic
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