Rabbi David Sedley

A repository of written, audio and video Torah classes given by Rabbi David Sedley

Category: amalek

  • Parshat Beshalach – Amalek and Theology

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    This shiur is also based on the writings of Rav Tzadok HaCohen. May this shiur be a Refuah Shleima for Shiri bat Gila. Rav Tzadok says that remembering what Amalek did to us is really about remembering the sin that we committed which led to Amalek coming. But the Torah does not specify what the… Read more

  • 28th Iyar

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    Not only is today Yom Yerusahalayim and also the yarzheit of Shmuel HaNavi (as per my last blog), but my brother also told me several interesting things about the date.He claims that if you do the maths (and I’m not quite sure how to do it, but it certainly seems approximately correct) this is the… Read more

  • Remember Amalek

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    This is the latest in my series of shiurim on the Six Remembrances. It is about remembering what Amalek did to us when we left Egypt (and therefore is also connected to Parshat Hashavua). I talk about Amalek, Purim, masks, time, Moshe, atomic half-life, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and patterns in randomness.Click here to listen to… Read more