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Holy War | Jewish War According to The Torah

1.7K views · Oct 23, 2023

Rabbi Yaacov Haber

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okay I'd like to um as advertised I'd like to um talk about the Halas of sort of um understand what the means for what it means for Israel to be in a m and what are the laws of those M this is of course should be a for um those that are fighting in battle and those that are um afraid and those that are um that are um afraid and those that are um putting their life in danger and this CL for all of us first of all I just want to say this it's something interesting that um cover a few things and try to get some clarity it's something interesting that um we have a lot of material about a lot ofas you know bab B we have a lot of very little literature literature about M and the reason is very simply about M and the reason is very simply that um for the last couple of thousand years there hasn't been any M until the K Medina in 1948 and the the real mamas took place in the time of so the time that was 200 years before theik and that's when we had a lot of Wars um Josephus wrote a book about it called the wars of the Jews um and that that was a period of M from t till the time of and there by the way Josephus reports

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  1. 0:01okay I'd like to um as advertised I'd like to um talk about the Halas of
  2. 5:38sorry some kind of an economic status where the E Economist say it's impossible to live
  3. 11:36Jews we're not supposed to be conquering lands except mitvah that there's mitzah which we have
  4. 17:16um so but but optional it's optional in the sense that it's notah but the the
  5. 23:32political or the military experts say that we are in danger so that's so that means
  6. 29:15to understand is that if we're being Mar that's a Mitzvah that the ramb does not
  7. 35:21of so is that or is that mitzvah otherwise there would be no wipe them
  8. 41:36so doesn't mean that you clap means means that you kill you know if you destroy
  9. 47:28doesn't say it and that's a pretty big say like it's a big Zug that you
  10. 53:11father it's not limited to a particular um race that's not the what we have to

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