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Vayikra v3 Vol IV Issue Adar II March TheLehrhaus com CONTENTS ? Trubo ? Page ? Fried Page VAYIKRA AMALEK AND THE WAR AGAINST WAR Zach Trubo ? is the Director of Rabbinic Education for the International Beit Din M ark Twain said that history doesn ? t rep

Vol IV Issue Adar II March TheLehrhaus com CONTENTS ? Trubo ? Page ? Fried Page VAYIKRA AMALEK AND THE WAR AGAINST WAR Zach Trubo ? is the Director of Rabbinic Education for the International Beit Din M ark Twain said that history doesn ? t repeat itself but it often rhymes If this is so then history has been quite the poet as of late Russia ? s brutal invasion of Ukraine inevitably calls to mind the horrors of the past and forces the entire world to confront whether this time will be di ?erent Jews however are called to do something else Rather than turn to the past to predict the future they must look to the Torah to understand the present Where historians attempt to discover the immutable rules of history a Jew looks to the Torah and sees the eternal word of God Few rabbis have done a more brilliant job of understanding their time through the lens of the Torah than Rav Moshe Avigdor Amiel an important rabbinic ?gure and brilliant darshan in early twentieth century European Jewry who later moved to Israel and become a leader of Religious Zionism In watching the news these past weeks my thoughts turned to a derashah he wrote for Parshat Zakhor about a century ago either during or in the aftermath of World War I For most of Jewish history Amalek has remained a ?gure the Jewish people cannot seem to escape Anti-semitism in its various forms has kept alive the specter of a nation that strikes the Jewish people without reason or mercy For many rabbis Amalek was not a historical relic but a contemporary reality But where most exuberantly identi ?ed Amalek with those who oppressed the Jews Rav Amiel perceived Amalek as a threat to the world at large It was not to be identi ?ed with a particular person or nation but with an ethos ??Militarism ? he explains is ??the symbol of Amalek ? Living through the horrors of World War I as he did it ? s not hard to understand why Militarism is a worldview that espouses the belief that a people or state should maintain a strong military and use it aggressively to pursue its national interests It often goes hand in hand with chauvinistic nationalism and together they often serve as the driving force for why one country invades another Throughout much of the th century there was a delicate balance of power between countries like Germany England France and Russia but as each sought to increase its in uence and its military might tensions heightened When war ?nally broke out the great powers relished the opportunity to expand their empires all for the sake of power no matter the cost in human life To those not caught up in nationalistic fervor the needlessness of the bloody war was readily apparent For Rav Amiel militarism captures the essence of Amalek a worldview that sees war as an end unto