For two millennia, Jewish religious authorities worked to neutralize the violent implications of the biblical commandment to "blot out Amalek" through sophisticated interpretive strategies - yet this ancient mandate has reemerged in contemporary Orthodox discourse with troubling new applications. Through analysis of halakhic, kabbalistic, and hasidic sources, including works by Maimonides, the Zohar, and hasidic masters, three primary hermeneutical approaches emerge: eschatologization, which deferred action to messianic times; mythologization, which recast Amalek as metaphysical forces; and psychologization, which internalized the struggle as spiritual warfare against sin. However, this carefully constructed interpretive tradition is now being challenged within some Orthodox communities, particularly among Religious Zionists who have begun identifying Palestinians and Arabs as literal or figurative Amalekites. The research, prompted by the 1994 Hebron massacre perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein, reveals how messianic currents in modern Jewish thought, combined with Israeli-Palestinian political tensions, have led to a concerning revival of historical Amalek rhetoric. This theological shift represents a dramatic departure from rabbinical wisdom that had successfully contained potentially genocidal religious imperatives within ritual and spiritual frameworks for nearly two thousand years.