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Devarim 25: I-malek or U-malek
Chapter 25 contains the commandment to remember Amalek. This is fulfilled every year by a special reading of the end of this chapter on the Shabbat before Purim. Haman is described as Haman the Agagite, and Agag was the king of Amalek in the time of King Saul in the book of Samuel, making the reading about Amalek particularly appropriate for that Shabbat.
The story of Amalek first appeared earlier in the Torah, in chapter 17 of Exodus. That passage also contains a commandment from God to Moshe to write down and remember what Amalek did. Why, then, is the pre Purim reading taken from…
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