[Avodah] Questions about mechiyas amalek

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/09/17 16:30, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> On 9/5/2017 5:01 PM, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
>> David did; Yoav killed all the males but didn't know that the females 
>> must be killed as well.
> 
> How is it that Yoav made such a grievous mistake? No one told him what 
> the mitzvah and the dinim were?

They had no printed chumashim with nekudos, of course.  His rebbe taught 
him to read "macho timcheh es z'char amalek", instead of "zecher". 
Apparently he never had occasion to read this parsha in front of anyone 
else, so nobody ever corrected him, and he never knew about the correct 
pronunciation until he did this.   He was so angry he killed his rebbe 
for his malpractice.


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