Ki Thetze: the other

Ki Thetze: the other

What happens when you go out? You exit, you see the ex(er)otic. The seductress, rescued from the battle by her charm and whiles.  Some one quite different from the wife back home. 

Then there is the favored child... and the other.  The child who you wish was the bechor, and the actual bechor who stands in the way, and cannot be bypassed. Like the lost item that cannot be bypasses, like the animal struggling under its burden  that cannot be bypassed. 

The torah does give a formula to eliminate the rotten kid who stands in the way of that angelic being.  Call him a ben sorrer umorer and have him stoned!  Some combinations cannot be.  Ox and donkey, wool and linen ( unless they are involved in a mitzvah like tzitzith).

The parsha ends with the ultimate other: Amalek.  Three verses. The middle verse: 

יח  אֲשֶׁר קָרְךָ בַּדֶּרֶךְ, וַיְזַנֵּב בְּךָ כָּל-הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִים אַחֲרֶיךָ--וְאַתָּה, עָיֵף וְיָגֵעַ; וְלֹא יָרֵא, אֱלֹהִים. 18 how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and (he )feared not God. 

This translation implies that the one lacking fear was Amalek.  I think it is easier to read it as Israel being too tired  and feeble to believe.  Amalek adds to the challenge of faith. They don't believe and we are too tired to believe. 

When you go out , If you see the Buddha on he road, kill him...