I am genuinely sad at the passing of the Queen. I have written a bit about my thoughts on her significance to American conservatives (link below). The gist of it is that she exemplified the virtues our Founders thought essential to freedom.
But there's really an additional dimension to that. In our contemporary age of tabloid media, we saw all of the Queen's flaws as well. We saw that her family, like many families, is at times dysfunctional, replete with tragedy and pain.
And yet, for all that, she was transcendent. She struggled with things that many of us struggle with, and still retained a sense of what was important. It's not just that she was a virtuous woman: she was also virtuous amid all the tumult of life.
Now that is something worth celebrating, and emulating in our own lives.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
