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Buy meridia from canada, 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

The winter weather and gray skies deepened the chill of the broken stones
we sat upon, the remains of a house destroyed in Hebron. I sat in silent mourning with a Muslim family whose father had been murdered by Barukh Goldstein on Purim, 1994. Goldstein believed he was fulfilling the mitzvah to eradicate the name of Amalek which he identified as Palestinian Muslims praying in the mosque of our common ancestor Abraham, buy meridia from canada. Goldstein believed the Lord's 'war with Amalek from generation to generation' (Ex.15:17) commanded him to kill an entire people. While costumed Jewish children took their plastic Purim hammers to the street, playfully bopping people on the head on their way to hear the megillah, I sat amidst the rubble of a former home facing people who, unknown to them, were cast into the role of villains in an ancient story and forced to endure a plot line which targeted them for destruction. 1994 changed forever, the way I celebrated Purim with my congregation. From that time forward, the passages of revenge were expunged from the text. Buy meridia from canada, Along with our revamped feminist versions of the Purim tale in which Vashti was restored to her former glory and the women of the harem were given their freedom, my congregation elected to offer Haman community service and diversity training. The resolution of the story in my Albuquerque community came to reflect the ideas of restorative justice so dear to us, rather than revenge justice which had no place in our communal life.

As a shomeret shalom, a Jewish person who observes The Torah of Nonviolence, the enactment of Purim poses many challenges, the most difficult of which is the revenge aspects associated with resolution of the conflict in the story of Esther and the reading of the maftir passage about Amalek on Shabbat Zachor.

Many voices within the tradition also regard this text with discomfort and trepidation and work to find ways to limit the text and change its meaning. Georgia GA Ga., One strategy found in traditional sources to read Amalek passages as a historical account of a Nazi-like people, in which the command to kill every man, woman and child is justified as a rational and moral choice based on their behavior. As J.H, buy meridia from canada. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire wrote, " A people so devoid of natural religion as to kill non-combatants had forfeited all claim to mercy." This strategy is insufficient on many levels. First of all, the notion of collective punishment and the targeting of civilians is illegal according to international law and morally abhorrent. Nothing justifies the death of innocents. Secondly, the objectification of an entire people is the first step on the road to genocidal behavior. Buy meridia from canada, We cannot and should not teach it nor promote it, even in fun. As Barukh Goldstein demonstrates, words can lead to actions.

Another widely employed strategy in dealing with Amalek is to acknowledge the historical event that has no contemporary application (although we do not know if the passages about Amalek reflect history). According to the sages, Jews are forbidden from trying to fulfill the mitzvah to eradicate Amalek's name through physical combat and war with contemporary people, since the tribe of Amalek no longer exists in the world. Rather, the text is reformulated as a spiritual text that commands us to eradicate the Amalek within our own heart and mind. Amalek is the symbolic rendering of inner doubt, ridicule and alienation that must be overcome on the journey toward wholeness of spirit, buy meridia from canada. While this approach focuses our efforts on our inner life, and places the responsibility for transformation upon each individual, the story of Purim and the reading of the Amalek passages are not often presented in public with this intention in mind. Furthermore, what are the skillful means for transforming doubt into faith, ridicule into comic irony and empathy, and alienation into connectedness and beloved community, meridia generic. How do we avoid projection.

The third way appears in Midrash Tannaim and BT Sanhedrin 99b. Buy meridia from canada, In an effort to explain how Amalek came to be, a story is related about Timna, the sister of Lotan, one of Esau’s chiefs. Timna wants to convert and become a member of Abraham’s household. She goes to each of the three patriarchs who reject her. Undeterred, she surrenders her status as daughter of a chieftain and becomes the concubine of Eliphaz, one of Esau's sons. She declares: “Better to be a handmaiden to Israel than a noblewoman of the chiefs of Esau.” (Midrash Tannaim on Deut., 32:47). The sages comment that the patriarchs were punished for rejecting a potential convert, buy meridia from canada. Amalek was born of the union of Timna and Eliphaz, saw how his mother was treated and swore he would make Israel suffer. This rendering of the story might cause us to consider the consequences of drawing the boundaries of community in such a way that some members of humanity remain as outsiders.

As a shomeret shalom who practices the Torah of Nonviolence, there are ways we can situate the story that prevent us from objectifying others, promoting revenge and rejoicing in destruction. The mitzvah to get so drunk one can no longer distinguish between blessed is Mordecai, cursed is Haman seems to point us in this direction. Buy meridia from canada, As a shomeret shalom, Purim becomes the holy day during which time we make an effort to overcome oppositional thinking. As Kedushat Levi taught, "The remembrance of Amalek is to arouse the spirit of a person to transcend (opposites) because the redemption of soul depends upon it. Part of overcoming oppositional thinking is the ability to play all the parts. The rabbinic empathy for Amalek found in the Talmudic readings about Timna encourage us to understand those who we might consider our opponents. Humanizing the face of the enemy is key to this approach. Purim can be seen as a warning tale that reminds us that plotting destruction for others comes back around in the form of self-destruction, buy meridia from canada. Finally, using humor to make fun of ourselves by pointing out painful truths in a way that allows us to laugh, North Carolina NC N.C., enables us to overcome oppositional thinking by loosening the boundaries of conventional behavior so we can explore 'the other side'.

Clearly we need to be very very careful in the rendering of Purim. We cannot allow ourselves to characterize any nation that exists in this world as 'amalek'. Rather, we need to place our faith in the power of the human spirit to transform conflict in ways that truly lead us to a path of celebration and joy. Hag Sameakh.

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