In last week's Torah portion we were told, "Va-yavo Amalek": Amalek came upon the Israelites [Exodus 17:8]. Think of it. Mere weeks after their miraculous liberation from Egypt and release from ...

“The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, ‘Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff ...

Sunday Synopsis. Fr. Justine John Dyikuk. Dear friends in Christ, On the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of the Year, C – Mission Sunday (October 19, 2025), I bring you gre ...

The Lord is our guardian, beside us at our right hand, interceding for us in all our spiritual battles. In today's Psalm, we're told to lift our eyes to the mountains, that our help will co ...

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Hashem said to Moshe, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and recite it in the ears of Yehoshua; for I will completely erase the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven” (Shemos 17:14). For most of ...

“You shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven; do not forget!” [Deuteronomy 25:19]. Each year on Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat preceding Purim, we read from a selection in Deuteronomy ...