PurimBurst 2014 Sarah Yehudit Schneider (1) Remember [1]….(2) to blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens [2]….(3) Do not forget! [2] Who is this Amalek that three of our 613 mitzvot revolve around him? And how do we “remember to eliminate the memory of something while also never forgetting it?” Isn’t that self-contradictory? The Torah accords Amalek the mysterious distinction as “First of the nations…” [ראשית גוים עמלק…][4]. The midrash explains that this i
