Remembering to Forget?! Shabbat Zachor/Tetzaveh 5778
Remembering to Forget?! Shabbat Zachor/Tetzaveh Exodus 27:20-30:10 Maftir (End Ki Tetze) Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Haftarat Zachor: 1 Samuel 15:2-34
"I have a terrible memory. I never forget a thing." - Edith Konecky Jewish American Novelist
This coming Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor. שבת זכור Shabbat Zachor(Sabbath of Remembrance) is the Sabbath immediately preceding the holiday of Purim. We read Devarim 25:17-19 (the end of Parasha Ki Teizei), describing the attack on the Israelites by the nation of Amalek. The short reading paradoxically commands us to both remember and forget what Amalek did to us when they attacked us in the wilderness!
Primary Text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deuteronomy 25: 17-19 Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt--how, undeterred by the fear of God... He [Amalek] surprised and attacked your weakest ones from the rear, when you were [all] fatigued and weary. Therefore…
"I have a terrible memory. I never forget a thing." - Edith Konecky Jewish American Novelist
This coming Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor. שבת זכור Shabbat Zachor(Sabbath of Remembrance) is the Sabbath immediately preceding the holiday of Purim. We read Devarim 25:17-19 (the end of Parasha Ki Teizei), describing the attack on the Israelites by the nation of Amalek. The short reading paradoxically commands us to both remember and forget what Amalek did to us when they attacked us in the wilderness!
Primary Text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deuteronomy 25: 17-19 Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt--how, undeterred by the fear of God... He [Amalek] surprised and attacked your weakest ones from the rear, when you were [all] fatigued and weary. Therefore…
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