Reflection on Amalek, by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Shabbat Zachor:
Remember what Amalek did to you
on your journey
as you came out of Mitzryim
how he surprised you/chilled your spirit
on the road
smote those lagging behind
all that were enfeebled,
when you were faint and weary;
not fearing his own act.
When Adonai Elohekha gives you safety
from all your enemies round about,
in the land which Adonai Elohekha gives you as a hereditary portion
you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under the heavens.
Do not forget. Deuteronomy 25: 17-19