[Avodah] RE AMALEK-CHILDREN OF HAMAN IN BNEI BRAK

[simon benloulou]

Does it take care of the problem of how could Haman's descendants
>>have learned Torah in Bnai Brak?  If they were Amalekites shouldn't
>they have been put to death?

>I don't know. What's the status of an Amalekite who becomes a ger?

Suppose the beit din that does the giyur doesn't know he's an Amalekite.
Suppose he himself doesn't know he's an Amalekite.

Can an individual kill an Amalekite, or is it something that has to

be done either by a beit din or in a time of war? What are the exact
parameters? If I see an Amalekite, and somehow it's 100% certain that
he's an Amalekite, am I required/allowed to blow his brains out? Do I

have that authority?

But even aside from all of these questions, we seem to have a situation
where every single source we have says Haman is a direct descendent of
Agag, king of Amalek. Every one. Modern musings that perhaps he wasn't

don't count as sources, as I see it

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The halacha is we dont accept geirim from Amalek.  rav Tzadok Hacohen
milublin zsl
addresses this point in passing and concludes that its likely that
these children were

 the product of an amalekite raping a jewish girl....seems like the
simplest answer
 and therefore probably true
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