[Avodah] Haman and Amaleik

[Jay F Shachter]

> 
> AMD, if it is possible to pick out Amaleiqim beruach haqodesh, does
> this mean that if Eliyahu haNavi were to see a baby that happened to
> be from Amaleiq, he would be mechayev to kill her?
> 

The mitzva is to destroy the entire nation.  He would not be obliged
(assuming, arguendo, that he is alive, and thus obligated in mitzvoth)
to kill him/her, unless, in so doing, he would be completing the
destruction of the entire nation.


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