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 world would be a place of chaos. Who is to decide what is correct and                                                                                                                            12 dvarim
 what is not? The Torah is our guidebook for living. By commanding one
 to erect a fence around his roof, we learn that we must keep all mitzvot,
 both those that we understand and those that we do not.
 When a person trains himself to keep all of Hashem’s mitzvot perfectly,
 he accepts the difficulties he faces with love and equanimity, with full
 awareness that all that Hashem does is good.
 In the commandment to eradicate all memory of Amalek, the wording is:
 “that he happened upon you on the way.” The word  (happened) can
 also mean that he cooled you off. Amalek taught Bnei Yisrael to “chill
 out” and thaw from their fiery enthusiasm in Avodat Hashem. One who
 refrains from doing the mitzvot which are above his comprehension will
 eventually abstain from doing even those he understands. We are therefore
 enjoined to eradicate Amalek completely, as well as his essence and the
 way of life he represents.











 “An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the
 congregation of Hashem, even their tenth
 generation shall not enter the congregation
 of Hashem”
 (Devarim 23:4)
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