🎧 Shabbos Zachor

When Shaul spares Agag and the choicest of Amalek's flocks to use as korbanos, Shmuel HaNavi rebukes him sharply, even though, Chazal tell us, Shaul had a sophisticated, spiritually compelling rationale for what he did. The deeper problem is that any reasoning, however lofty, cannot substitute for kabbalas ol malchus shamayim, the willingness to obey beyond understanding that has to come first, the way Klal Yisrael said na'aseh before nishma at Har Sinai. That single lapse is what allowed Haman, a descendant of Agag, to be born, a lesson that returns every Purim, since destroying the Amalek within always begins with kabbalas ol.