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Hostage Deals In History & Halacha Reposted for current events 01 20 2025

Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

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Okay. Okay. Um um the I don't remember exactly what the title of the the year was. I wanted to talk about um freeing hostages, hostage negotiations. That's wrong. But uh it's really it's really a multi-prong chila because there's freeing hostages by route of money. There's freeing hostages by route of a trade. There's freeing hostages by route of a of an army raid. And each one of them has its own its own, you know, Shila Shila set. I don't know how many Shila Shila set. I don't know how many of them I'll get to now. We'll try to start and we'll see where we go. Now, I just want to be mimu is a is a tremendous in a tremendous mitzvah. Right. I think the either just learned it or just is about to learn it says and is masb because there's three components of of you know destituteness that a person could endure. It could be financial, it could be meaning food, clothing and danger and the Chevyulu clothing and danger and the Chevyulu someone who's who's in captivity is is you know on shaky ground in regards to his food in regards to his being clothed and in regards to his actual life. So being something from from a massive is the highest is the highest level and I'm sure says that precedes and supersedes any other form of the Rambam Pas like this as well. So it goes without saying that is a is a very very part of how uh public funds are supposed to be spent in

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  1. 0:04Okay. Okay. Um um the I don't remember exactly what the title of the the year
  2. 5:11alterba um theim many many others it's endless amount of of alterbas who spent the time
  3. 10:26He also wanted to be themed of the rush. The rash became aware of this plan.
  4. 15:33wrote a much more much longer safer for Tajits and that became the primary Tajits you
  5. 20:37anything like that, but it's a beautiful it's a beautiful little uh addendum to the story
  6. 25:49a lot of money or they die from their enemies they're replaceable I'm reading your and
  7. 30:51doing more and more damage you're paying for the for the next 20 terrorist attacks or
  8. 35:57and this is what's interesting says he says we never heard of any say that you
  9. 41:02say that you can't you can't be part. So now let's fast forward to to to
  10. 46:17we don't have to be on this and not free them is you could free them

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