Thursday, March 5, 2009

Harry Potter Anyone? or Kill The Beast!


In this week's Parshas Zachor haforah, we learn about Shaul being given instructions to kill out all of Amalek, even the oxen and sheep. On that Passuk, Rashi seems to be saying that the Amalekim had the ability to be Animagi, or actually use magic to turn themselves into animals to hide, hence the need to kill the animals to complete the mitzvah. Huh, and I though Harry Potter was just a fun fantasy book...

3 comments:

DavenedByDeKoisel said...

I don't know about the connection to Harry Potter, but judging by the spelling I would have to guess youv'e been hitting the sauce already... ;-)

Barb Chansky said...

Sauce, nicht sauce, but the whole concept is just mind-boggling

Jewish Side of Babysitter said...

To me I'm so used to the concept that I haven't thought anything extraordinary about it. But come to think of it, the whole mitzrayim topic is all fantasy like. All the maccos...