Jon Rahm of Spain won the U.S. Open this weekend in Torrey Pines (an amazing place!) after being disqualified from a tournament he was winning earlier this month because he somehow tested positive for COVID. (If there's any sport that should allow athletes to compete without concern for COVID, it's golf: entirely outdoors and socially distant.) Rahm overcame that alarming setback to play incredible golf and win a major title.
In a similar vein, Phil Mickelson became the oldest player to win the PGA Championship last month, just days after tweeting: "I’ve failed many times in my life and career and because of this I’ve learned a lot. Instead of feeling defeated countless times, I’ve used it as fuel to drive me to work harder. So today, join me in accepting our failures. Let’s use them to motivate us to work even harder."
We're learning a lot from these champions about how to cope with setbacks, and how to keep thinking positively and working hard.
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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 ...
