tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119360056301980654.post1911423756600343839..comments2023-08-15T02:20:49.481-07:00Comments on Drush and Agadata - Medrash, Parsha, Torah and Shabbos: Megillah 2a: Megillah, Amalek and MikrehAvromihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13593992238707872967noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7119360056301980654.post-25066335199916623522007-02-19T13:24:00.000-08:002007-02-19T13:24:00.000-08:00Only Connect "Remember what Amalek did to you, on ...Only Connect "Remember what Amalek did to you, on the way when you were leaving Egypt, that he happened upon you upon the way, and he struck those of you who were hindmost...." (25:18)<BR/><BR/>The head and the heart are like two different people. A concept can be as clear as daylight to the mind, but if we don't send it down the `information super-highway' to the heart, it's as though two different people are inhabiting the same body.<BR/><BR/>Amalek is the arch-enemy of the Jewish People. He is a master of ambush. He lies in wait along the highway between the head and the heart. He tries to kidnap the idea on the way to its destination -- to the place where it will be crystallized into conviction -- the heart.<BR/><BR/>Why does the Torah have to tell us here "that he happened upon you upon the way"? Upon which `way'? The way from the head to the heart. Intellect that is devoid of emotional conviction leads to cynicism and hedonism. Amalek's two great protégés.<BR/><BR/>As E.M. Forster once put it: "Only connect the prose and the passion...." Only connect the head and the heart, and Man will reach his true vocation, offering his mind on the altar of the heart to his Maker.<BR/><BR/>(Heard from Rabbi Yehoshua Bertram in name of Rabbi Yosef Tzeinvort, shlita)Avromihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593992238707872967noreply@blogger.com