MATOS-MASEI WAR, STUN GUNS AND THE JEWISH APPROACH TO MERCY

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Eisenberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] if you were to look at the Tyra with a bird's eye view you would find that it seems to contain an unexpectedly strange attachment to violence in the very second para of the entire Tyra Humanity at large was acting below Hashem standards and it just prompted him to exterminate the entire human race with the mob the great flood men women and the mob the great flood men women and children dead just a few paros later the city of sedom was acting in a way not approved of by Heaven and the city was completely burnt in a sulfur Firestorm again men women and children dead next we read about how hamar the prince of Shem went ahead and violated Dena the men of the city were cunningly told to circumcise and then while recovering in bed they were all slaughtered every single one of them then we read about how the sons of yov plotted and nearly how the sons of yov plotted and nearly executed the murder of their own brother Yosef this is not exactly a book of butterflies and cupcakes and the violence doesn't stop there we were given the Commandment to hunt down descendants of amalik and annihilate them we were charged with eradicating the Seven canania Nations inhabiting erell in effective ethnic cleansing of the previous dwellers of the land and finally in this week's para we are instructed to wage a vengeful war on the

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1. 0:00[Music] if you were to look at the Tyra with a bird's eye view you would…
2. 2:01sword Hashem commands us to kill every last mny male including the male infants and all…
3. 4:36sadome was not merely a city bereft of morals it was a city that threatened and…
4. 6:38who maintains that we are not required to ask our enemies for peace only holds this…
5. 9:14Mercy Hashem requires us to carry on lives of love and compassion even while Waging War…
6. 11:16difficulties were put to death 8 to 20 million the Egyptians built their cities while throwing…
7. 13:47is because of the undue pain caused to the animal and the insensitivity would Foster in…
8. 15:53on shita of animals arguing that it was immensely cruel and insensitive to the animal the…
9. 18:28German legislation did not ban outright but only required the animal to be rendered insensible prior…
10. 20:30sh as the debate raged on throughout Europe constantly being used as a club to knock…

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