Two types of hate. We have at the end of today's Parachah an extraordinary command.

Here is how it stated in this week's Parachshah. Remember what the Amalekites did to you.

Along the way when you came out of Egypt where you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey,

and attacked all who were lagging behind. They had no fear

of God. When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land

he is giving you to possessors and inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under

heaven. Do not forget. The Israelites had two enemies in the days of Moses, the Egyptians and the Amalekites.

Compare them. The Egyptians enslaved the Israelites. They turned them into a forced labor colony. They oppressed them.

Pharaoh commanded his people to drown every male Israelite child.

This was attempted genocide, yet about the Egyptians,

Moses commands, don't despise an Egyptian because he were strangers in his land.

The Amalekites did no more than attack the Israelites once

in the days of Moses

an attack they successfully repelled, yet Moses

commands, remember, don't forget, blot out their name. In Exodus, the Torah says that God

himself will be at war with the Mollic for all generations. Why the difference? Why did Moses tell

the Israelites in effect to forgive

the Egyptians but not the Amalekites? The answer is to be found, I think, in a famous

missionary in Pirkehavut, which says when love is dependent on the cause and the cause disappears,

then the love disappears. But if love doesn't depend on a cause, and the cause disappears, then the love disappears.

But if love doesn't depend on a cause, that love will never pass away.

What's an example of love which depends on a cause, that of Amnan for Tamar.

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