The Nations of the World

The Nations of the World differ from one another in their writing, their language, their land and their dress - to Esther 1:22 (according to the p'shat).

The civilized nations will come to hear the way of HaShem according to the Torah ''which they shall teach you - to the house of the L-rd of Yaakov'' - to Isaiah 2:3

Rome is Edom - to Esther 1:22 (according to the p'shat). See R. Yitzhak Abarbanel to Isaiah 34; Malbim to the beginning of the book of Amos.

There are two kinds of ''enemies of Israel'': qamav, those who rise up to distress Israel (physically), and mesaneav, those who cause ill feeling between Israel and their Heavenly Father and who cause them to sin (with their rotten culture), and these last are considered primary sources of the impurities - Adderet Eliyahu, Deuteronomy 33:11, II [533].

''The Holy One, Blessed be He, does not rejoice when He punishes the wicked, but with regard to what they did to His servants, the servants of G-d, HaShem will be comforted when He will punish the Nations and take His vengeance upon them'' - Adderet Eliyahu, Deuteronomy 32:36.

The retribution that the Holy One, Blessed be He, shall bring upon the Nations will take place ''when their leg falters'', their ''leg'' being the privilege stemming from the respect Eisav showed his father Yitzhak (Zohar I, 146b), and then HaShem will repay them for all the evil they have perpetrated - this being the period known as `Iqba diM'shikha' (footsteps of the Messiah), since this is the end of the leg - Adderet Eliyahu, Deuteronomy 32:35.
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