Myśl Żydowska do Psalmów 130:1

Some problems in the text of our Parshah. 1) Why did Moses not wait for G-d’s command before selecting men to fight Amalek? Would G-d not intervene personally, as He had done when He split the sea and drowned the Egyptian army? 2) Why did Moses not lead the people into battle himself, as he did later against Og, king of Bashan? 3) Why were anashim, i.e. righteous men needed for this fighting force, whereas in the campaign against Og no such stipulation was made? 4) Why did Moses position himself on a hill with the staff of G-d in his hand? Do we not have the principle that one implores G-d from a position of ma-amakim, depths rather than from a position of elevation? 5) What is the "heaviness" of Moses’s hands all about? Why did Amalek prevail in battle when Moses lowered his hands since he had exhausted himself and suffered pain as a result of raising his hands in prayer? 6) Why does the Torah repeat that "Moses’s hands remained true till sunset?" We had been told this already? 7) The instructions to record these events "in the ears of Joshua," sounds very peculiar! 8) What is the meaning of "Israel weakened Amalek by the sword?" From the story this seems self evident! 9) In this Parshah, it seems as if G-d reserves the right for Himself to fight against Amalek, whereas in Parshat Ki Teytze He makes this an exclusive task of Israel. Why? Here we read about machoh emcheh, I will utterly blot out, whereas in Ki Teytze it merely says timcheh, blot out! 10) Why did G-d give precedence to the commandment of wiping out Amalek over the commandment to build a temple, or to the appointment of a king? (All these three commandments apply once the land of Canaan had been captured. (Sanhedrin 20, see chapter 50)