14. The Torah Knows Jews Are Too Compassionate for This War

“We are rachmanim bnei rachmanim.”

Again and again throughout this shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz and the chevra of Shirat David return to that reality: the Jewish people are compassionate by nature. And precisely because of that, the Torah forces us to confront Amalek over and over again.

Moving through Shaul HaMelech’s mercy on Agag, the obligation of Parshas Zachor, October 7th, the moral confusion surrounding modern warfare, and Rav Shmuel Eliyahu’s understanding of Amalek in our generation, this conversation wrestles honestly with one of the hardest Torah topics imaginable.

Not as a political discussion. Not as slogans. But as Torah.

A raw and emotionally charged shiur about compassion, survival, responsibility, and why the Torah insists that evil must still be recognized clearly, even by a people whose instinct is mercy.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Opening Sponsorships and Memorials

01:37 Brandon’s Question: Call to Action for Shlav Bet

04:21 Compassion and the Obligation to Eradicate Amalek