Feb. 26, 2026

Parshas Tetzaveh/Zachor: Cold. Calculated. Amalek.

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What if the real battle isn’t choosing the right path—but staying on it once the ground shakes? We take a hard look at Zachor and the charge to remember Amalek, not as ancient trivia but as a living pattern: predators circle when conviction thins. The thread winds through Shekalim, Parah, and Hachodesh, yet lands here with urgency—miss even a word of this reading, say the sages, and you miss the heartbeat of the mitzvah.

We connect the dots the Torah lays out: Amalek appears right after the people wonder, “Is God among us or not?” That same unease surfaces in Devarim, where the law about honest weights sits beside the command to remember. Why? Because cheating at the scale is theology in disguise; it says tomorrow’s bread requires my deceit. From Rafidim’s laxity to the Ramban’s portrait of anxious believers at the sea, the pattern holds—doubt is not ignorance, it’s the erosion that starts after you already know the truth.

So we make it practical. Faith becomes a craft: choose with clarity, then refuse the daily re-vote on your values. Keep clean measures to declare trust in enough. When the work of building a holy home feels uphill, read “hard” as a sign of meaning, not a signal to quit. Quiet the panic, steady your breath, and act on what you know is right. That is how you drain the blood from the water and keep the sharks away.

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00:00 - Setting The Stage: Zachor

01:05 - Four Parshios And Their Arc

01:48 - The Mitzvah’s Weight And Precision

02:36 - Amalek’s Attack And Motive

04:18 - Doubt Invites Danger

06:22 - Honest Weights, Honest Faith

08:40 - Rafidim And Growing Lax

11:45 - Doubt After Decision

14:30 - Hard Is Not Wrong

17:06 - Ramban On Fear And Faith

19:20 - How To Blot Out Doubt

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Zakhar says the Torah.

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Remember.

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And if you do, you'll know what's to come.

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It is Parsha's Zakhar, that is this week.

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It is the second preparatory parsha before the spring month of Nisan is ushered in.

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Out of these Dalit Parshios, we've already had Shekulim that brought with it the idea of communal responsibility and obligation.

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To bring what you can, and to know that you are also only part of a whole.

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And now we're up to Parsha's Zakur.

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Which is to remember.

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Out of the Dalid Parshios, we still have yet to come the idea of purity, spiritual white, serenity to haram.

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That will come in Parsha's Para.

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Before we have that message of be new, Hachodish, be new as we start the month of Nisan.

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But before we get there, we must debate and understand the matter at hand, which is that this Shabbos, your schedule will change.

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When you come home from Sheol for your herring and scotch, you will be delayed because your wife will walk back, your mother will walk back, your aunt will walk back, whoever it is that you're with will walk back to shool to hear from the Balkhore's mouth, reading from the Holy Torah scroll, all about how Amalek attacked the Jewish people.

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Everybody goes to hear the Parsha this week.

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It's a mitvah de Oresah.

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Parsha's Zachar brings with it, say the sages, such a weighty and important and pressing idea that must be known in the hearts and minds of Jewish people, men or woman, that even one word of it that you fail to hear, one little word, miss an iota of its lesson, and you have fumbled and muffed this mitzvah to Oraisa.

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One word.

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That's how paramount and institutional, foundational the mitzvah of Zachar is.

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And it's important to note that as we do take the step forward towards the month of Nisan, and we did get the lesson of communal obligation, we now take our first step forward, which is coming to greet us with a look over the shoulder of looking back.

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Zakhar, look back.

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What are we looking back to see?

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Well, we look back to see that when we were a fledging, small Jewish nation being let out of led out of Egypt by Akadesh Baruchhu and his trusted Eved Nehemon Moshe Rabinu with his staff held high.

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The nation was fledging.

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The nation still wet behind the ears, but godly inspired and brave and bought in.

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And it was right then that Amolik came like a blitzing linebacker, the blitzkrieg type of warfare, blindsiding Claulia's royal in the desert, coming from tens of miles away as a nation, the semi-nomadic, bloodthirsty nation with nothing to game.

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Did Amalek come with nothing to gain?

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No territory to take from the Jews.

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Nothing.

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Except for the will and lust of the death of godliness in the world.

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They traveled from the Negev, from where they were, coming down to where the Jews were.

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The Israelites.

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And they wage war.

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They do despicable things to the Jews.

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But the sages, Chazal, they tell us what we need to look back and remember.

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We're to look back and remember why that happened and what happened.

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And then to take from that.

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Torah means to instruct, to take from that and infer the future.

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And to understand what you should do today or not do today or not do tomorrow based on the consequences or the outcomes of decisions made earlier.

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So I ask you, why did Amalek come?

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Why then?

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Why there?

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The Torah tells us.

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You don't need to guess.

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The sages aptly put it.

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Amalek comes, and with this I'd like to string together the most common denominator that we find in Amalek to then impress upon your mind this one Yesoid that keeps rearing its angry and evil head when it comes to the time and fights of Amalek to understand it in a mature light and then take from it.

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A lesson to live our lives with?

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Why did Amalek come?

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This posak of a Yava Yamalek is juxtaposed to a Pusuk before it.

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Loimar to tell us Tomid Ani Bainechan Umazuman Lakoltem Vatem Oimrim Hayesh Hashem Biker Bainu im Oyan God He says to the Jewish people with a sense of wonderment Thus sells thus saith the Lord I am ever among you.

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I'm ready at hand for everything that you may need.

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And yet, and yet the Pasuk right before this, and yet, what did the Jewish people say in the Pusuk before this?

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The Jewish people were complaining if God was really with them.

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Is God really with us?

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Did God take us out here to die?

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That was what the Jews just finished saying in the Pusik before Amalek.

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They were complaining, a lack of water.

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How could it be?

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God saved us.

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He did all these miracles, and now all of a sudden we don't have water.

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They were bewildered.

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They had this doubt.

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Is God really gonna pull through?

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I don't know.

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Hayesh Hashem Bikirbainu im Ayan is the underlined phrase.

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Is the Lord among us or not?

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It was doubt.

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It was a doubt, continues Chazal and continues Rashi, that led to Vaya Vayamalik.

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Continues this chazal, Chayekem.

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I'll show you.

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You doubt?

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You're unsure if I'm really here.

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You look around after all that I've done for you, and you say, Where's Daddy?

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Chayechem, you'll learn this lesson.

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You'll learn it now that I don't want you, young boy, to run in the street.

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I'm gonna give you the strict lesson now because I'm trying to help you.

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Jewish people, you ask, Am I here after all that I've done?

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Chayekim.

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By your lives.

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A Malik will come.

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He'll bite you.

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And then you'll cry for me.

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And then you'll see that I'm here.

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Then you'll trust that I'm here and you'll know that I'm here.

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But it's to address doubt.

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Amalek comes.

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Specifically, when a Jew says, Hayesh, Hashem, Bikirbainu, Im Ayyin, is God really with me?

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When he doubts God, when he doubts if God is with him, that's when Amalek comes.

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Is the Lord among us?

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If one whispers that, if one thinks that, one can expect a ravenous nation to not be far behind.

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It's not just here that chazal say this lesson about Amalek.

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Zocher is asher asalch, Amalek Baderech, Batsitzchem, Mimitsraim.

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And say for Dvarim, when we're rehashing the commandment to remember what Amalek did over there also.

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Rashi picks up, brings a chazal, explains to us why it is that this puzzuk that talks about Amalek is juxtaposed to the puzzle that right is before it, that's discussing perfect and just weights, that when you are weighing out the precise cost of something as a client or a vendor, you're to be honest and just in your scales and in your business.

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Right after that, does the puzzle discuss the commandment of Amalek?

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Again, says Rashi, Im Shokarta Bamidos Uvumishkolos.

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There's a connection here.

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When does Amalek come?

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If you should lie about your measurements, if you should be unjust, try to steal and scoop to heap more money onto your own pile unjustly, take Shefah from Shemaim that is not justly yours, not earned honestly, then have a doegmi Gurye Ha'oyev.

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You should be afraid from attacking nations.

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Now, it never dawned on me to think about what is behind this chazal.

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Until this week that I tried to think about this podcast and see if I could find what's at the source of Amalek.

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And once I saw clearly that it's about doubt, that chazal show us that Amalek comes when you doubt God, it hit me here too.

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It's the same thing.

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Why does a person, why does a person lie about his business and try to steal more for himself?

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He does it for the same reason.

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Because he doubts if God is with him.

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He doubts if tomorrow God is gonna take care of him.

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He has doubt is God truly with me?

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The mortgage is coming.

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But I don't know.

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God, I don't see you.

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Why do you lie about your weights?

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Because you say the same thing of Hayesh, Hashem, Bekirbainu, Im Ayyim.

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Is God really with me?

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You doubt God?

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Mullock.

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You have to be afraid.

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Is on the march towards your camp.

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Bichoros.

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Daf Heid Sha'altov, my Lushan Rafidim.

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The Gemar wants to know the funny name of the city that the Jews were in when they were attacked was Rafidim.

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Is there any extra depth behind that?

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Rabbi Eliasir Amer.

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Rafidim Shema.

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Rabbi Eliezer says, no, just the name of a town.

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That's where they were.

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Rabbi Yeshua argues, Rabbi Yeshua Amer, there is depth behind this moniker.

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She Rifu Atmay me divray tira.

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Clali Israel became lax with regards to the upholding of the holy law.

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Why does somebody become lax?

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A Molek attacked when the Jews were in Refidim.

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Why does somebody become lax in Rafidim?

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Why does somebody start to dwindle in their commitment and conviction?

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It is only because they have doubts, because they have second guesses.

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That's what it means to dwindle, to grow weak.

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It means that you have a grasp on something.

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You're connected to it.

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You've taken that leap, but now you start to lose a grip.

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That's called doubt.

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You're not uncertain.

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You are certain, but yet now you are second guessing.

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That is called doubt.

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Doubt comes after certainty.

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Doubt comes after a decision.

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Doubt comes from analysis paralysis when you've already made up your mind and you know it is correct, but yet still you start to second guess yourself because you're unsure, unfaithful.

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And instead of being unbroken, you start to question.

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To be misupic.

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To have your doubts.

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That feeling of unconviction, uncertainty.

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The internal pause.

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The paralyzing of wait a second.

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Is this actually true?

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Am I sure that I am doing the right thing then?

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When you ask yourself that.

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They can smell the blood in the water.

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The Jew, look at him.

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He's already unsure.

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He's a prime and ripe case for attack.

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Like the swimmer off the coast of the Pacific, where you can view the shark from underneath the swimmer.

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He sees the human legs dangling there.

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And as he swims at a record 50 miles per hour, digging his teeth, his fangs into the human flesh.

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That is how Amolek views doubt, suffic.

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And for the capstone cherry on top, you can imagine this is coming.

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It turns out that Amolek actually has the same gimatria as the word suffoc, the word doubt.

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They both have the numerical value of 240.

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You'll hear this week.

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They happened on the way.

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What does it mean, Karha?

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Again, the same motif, continuum, at nauseum understanding of the most common denominator of when to expect a malek.

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Everything is a mikra, it's a happenstance, it just happened to be.

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Maybe you're not godly, maybe God's not with you.

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When you askem bikir bainu im, that's when there's blood in the water.

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You must shake off the doubts.

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You must know if you've decided that you've made up your mind, then there must be an unbreakable will to continue down that path.

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And this is a rantable material because it's backwards.

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Because Bismana.

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It seems that we struggle not in decision making.

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For we know in our heart of hearts our decisions and what is just.

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Deep down we all know our obligations.

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Do you not?

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Do you not know what you're capable of?

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Do you not know what your Shabbos table could and should look like?

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Do you not know the honesty and then the integrity in which you should conduct your business with?

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Do you not know the spiritual purity and the self-control that you could and should have?

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Don't say no.

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You know what you are capable of.

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But what stands in the way?

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What is the Achilles heel?

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Is it our decision making?

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It is a lack of is it a lack of understanding?

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A lack of we need more knowledge?

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No.

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No.

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It is the stick tuitiveness.

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It is the wait a second, why is it so hard?

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Am I really supposed to be doing this?

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We get second-guessy, we get doubtful.

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We have our Ayesha Shembi Kirbainu im Ayan moments when it gets hard and we give up.

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We give in to Amalik.

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When it's precisely the opposite.

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We start to argue to ourselves if it was supposed to happen.

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Why is it so hard?

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If I'm supposed to be building this Mishkan of Hashem in my house, why is it so hard?

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Why is it so hard to give this thing up?

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Must be Hashem doesn't want me to do it, we'll say.

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Backwards.

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It is precisely because it is hard.

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And Hashem wants to reward you.

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And Hashem wants to see what you're made of.

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That it is hard.

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And that it shows you that it is the right way.

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But instead we just say, yeah, but what if this is actually not right?

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But what if?

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And we go back to misbalancing our checkbooks.

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The Mishkolos and then Amale comes.

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The uncertainty.

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The second doubts.

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It's not a new problem.

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The first person to shy from this second doubt, cancer, second thoughts, analysis, paralysis, doubting of Amalek.

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I want to be clear here though.

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It's not that Amalek is Suffic.

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I want to suggest and clarify from here that Amalek comes and is attracted to when a yid starts to doubt himself and a ship gets rocky.

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It's then that the Yid needs to shake himself awake and then settle himself with a stern spine and vertebrae and continue down the path without second-guessing himself and folding apart, folding like a cheap lawn chair.

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A Mullik comes when there is the suffoc.

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It's after that we ask Ayesha Shem Bikir Bainu Im Oin.

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That's when a Mulloch comes like the cancer.

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The Ramban asked a powerful question in Bishalach.

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How could it be that the Jews are screaming?

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Hashem, save us, where are you?

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The Ramban wants to know.

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I don't get it.

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Are the Jews believers or not?

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Right before the Jews go through the water and sing Shira?

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It seems like they have this moment of doubt.

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The Ramban doesn't get it.

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This people just followed God into the great unknown.

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They believed, and now they don't believe?

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Says the Ramban every word gold.

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The Fshar Od Lomar.

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They're Daviding.

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They're believers.

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Maybe Moshe.

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Maybe he took us out here.

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Pen Yotziam Limshalale.

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Maybe Moshe just brought us out here because he wants to be our new ruler.

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A doubt.

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Maybe he's just a good magician.

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They had a different doubt.

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Maybe a god brought the miracles and the Destruction upon the Egyptians, not in our merit, but because the wickedness of the mitzv.

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All these thoughts come flooding back to Clay Sir.

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Why is Hashem making it that the enemy is coming back?

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It came back a suffic beliebum.

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The doubt that Moshe has to settle them.

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Calm down.

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Remain quiet.

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Hashem Yilochimlochem.

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Vatem tahishun.

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Be quiet.

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Watch the show.

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Have some faith.

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The doubt, the second guessing is what causes a Malik to come and what breaks our commitments.

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When you hear the sermon from the great Baalkore's lips this week of Zakhar, remember, look back.

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What should you look back and recall?

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You should recall that Amalek came and that it's a commandment for us to blot out the memory of them.

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And you should remember the lesson of always destroying a malek.

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How do you do that?

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By taking the lesson of a Moleq.

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And looking back and seeing that a Molech comes when a Jew doubts his God.

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A Molech comes when a Jew second guesses what he knows is already the truth.

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A Molek comes when a person lacks the conviction and the faith to do what he knows is right.

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When there's blood in the water, that's when the great white, evil, sinister shark of Amalek comes.

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For us, the lesson is being preached to steady yourself and to remain calm.

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And to know that your faithfulness in Hashem and your steadfastness in doing what's right, trusting in God, even though it is a moment of distress, that's how you fight back against a mulloch.

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That's how you scoop the blood out of the water and keep it clean so no sharks come.

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And that's how you keep a mullock at bay.

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A mulloch is suffic.

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A mulloch is attracted to doubt.

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And this is the lesson.

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This is what we are to remember.

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To see.

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Trust in Hashem.

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Trust in your correct decision.

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Stay the course.

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Don't second guess if you know and you've clarified and you've asked and you've discerned and you understand what is right.

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Stay the course.

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Stay strong.

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This is the most common denominator in the lesson that Hakadish Baru wants us to take and wants us to see.

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When we hear the words, the Shabbos of Timcha ezekher ha molek me tahas hashamayam lo tishkach.