He shall remove his garments and don other garments.
(Leviticus 6: 4)
Remember what Amalek did to you on your way out of
Egypt. How, undeterred by fear of God,
he surprised you on the way, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all
the stragglers in your rear. Therefore,
when the Lord your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in
the Land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall blot
out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.
Do not forget!
(Deuteronomy 25:17-19)
On the Shabbat before the holiday of Purim, we are charged
not to forget Amalek's merciless murder of Jews solely because they are Jews.
In the Scroll of Esther read on Purim, the incarnation of
Amalek is Haman who plots to murder all Jews in the Persian kingdom.
This week, we could not forget! We were witness to modern day Amaleks' aims
to annihilate the Jewish people that will also fail.
We went to the cemetery in Petah Tikva to remember Miriam's
mother Anna Benjamin on the 2nd anniversary of her passing at 102.
There are no tombstones to mark her parents' graves. They were torn from their home in Holland to
be viciously murdered in Auschwitz.
IDF officer Moshe Peretz, father of Anna’s great-great-grandson
Eliad, said kaddish for her parents on a IDF mission to Auschwitz.
This week, our son Moshe Yehuda went the funeral of the
Fogel family butchered in their beds by bloodthirsty Arabs.
The Arab street celebrates these murders as Hamas fires
deadly missiles into Israel and Ahmadinejad calls “to wipe Israel off the map.”
The Purim story ends in Iran with Haman hanging from the
gallows he constructed to hang the Jew Mordecai.
Power-ranger Eliad aided by Spiderman and Batman will thwart
the evil plots of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Persian ayatollahs.
For the Jews there was light, gladness, joy, and
honor. (Esther 8:16)
