Comments on: Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz: Tziduk Hadin

By: midwesterner

midwesterner — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:50:04 +0000

Actually, Torahyid, if you open a chumash (Parshas Vayshlach between shishi and shvi’i) you’ll see that Amalek was a son of Elifaz ben Adah Eishes Eisav, and Timna the pilegesh from Alufei Se’ir. Basmas AKA Machlas Bas Yishmael was a different wife. Yishmael was at best the father of Amalek’s step-grandmother.

By: tzippi

tzippi — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:22:48 +0000

4. if they are our first cousins, it is many times removed by now; ditto for our being cousins with Amalek.

By: cityofgold

cityofgold — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:06:40 +0000

Heartfelt poem, full of ahavas yisroel. Try to keep that going in the newspaper..

By: torahyid

torahyid — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:27:53 +0000

#4 wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!Aisov went and married bnai yishmaelRemenber??????????? So today its aisov yishmael = Amalek

By: BYgirl

BYgirl — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:05:34 +0000

Rabbi Lipschutz, your a very talented writer.

By: lkwdfellow

lkwdfellow — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:46:22 +0000

Great article! I think all of Klal Yisroel should take an example from the Belzer Rebbe who went to visit the Cholim & the Satmar Rebbe who spoke about this tragedy in his Drosha in Monsey. Here are two Gedolim who have different shittos from this Yeshiva. Yet they showed how we are all Yiddin & even if our shittos differ, we are all really connected.

By: Avraham

Avraham — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:03:53 +0000

To Commenter No. 4:
Some of the Meforshim on Sefer Daniel explain one of his dreams as indicating that the final Amalek — before the Bias Goel Tzedek BB”A — will be a descendant of both Eisav and Yishmael. According to HaRav Yitchak Abarbanel, that is why the Torah HaKedoshah tells us that Eisav (father of Amalek) married the daughter of Yishmael: to indicate that history will repeat itself. The modern marriage of descendants of Eisav/Amalek and Yishmael will produce that final Rotzeach, Ymoch Shmo.

By: torlev

torlev — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:08 +0000

Beautiful, “hatziger verter”. It is nice to see this hishtatfus bitzaar expressed in the Yated, our chareidi/yeshivisher mouthpiece. It was also beautiful to see the pictures of the Belzer Rebbe visiting the wounded.
I would like to pose a well-intentioned, but probably unpublishable question, that has been bothering me in the past few days. Was our world adaquately represented at the levaya for the eight young kedoshim? Shouldn’t everyone-chassidish, litvish, migodol ve’ad kotton- have dropped everything that they were doing, in order to show our hishtatfus bitzaar, and in order to be mekayim the mitzvah of being melaveh these kedoshim?

By: Tzadik in Peltz

Tzadik in Peltz — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:09:43 +0000

Beautiful. Just one note: the Arabs are not Amalaik. They are Bnei Yishmael – our first cousin.

By: eretzyisroel

eretzyisroel — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:20:55 +0000

every word just makes your heart cry every woed is true AM YISROEL WAKE UP we need to be united in ERETZ YISRAEL not in the gashmius world