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Shoftim - Ending the Plague With Peace

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Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag

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concept of peace within the context of war secretary of ear because the passage tells us that when we get too close when we come to a city we get close to a city so there's an obligation to reach out to the people of that city and to say instead of war we'd like to make peace that's give them we give them the first option of peace that's the first thing that we do we're not looking to have war we're looking for there to be peace really sometimes in order for there to be peace we need to fight and indeed there were certain circumstances where the jewish people circumstances where the jewish people reached out for peace and the people responded and said we want peace there were the governor came to the jewish people and they wanted peace and others as well so the message tells us there's there's a number of different ideas concepts that we see that the terrorist specifically wants us to pursue peace what is the idea of pursuing peace what does it mean to find peace there's a number of things that are hazal instituted that our sages say were important say that are important in order that there be peace between people because as we all know naturally the human being is very i don't want to say combative but there's takaru there's come there's competition there's competitiveness amongst human beings so ghazal instituted a number of different things in order that there should be peace there shouldn't be this competitiveness this competition is what our sages said

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  1. 1:01concept of peace within the context of war secretary of ear because the passage tells us
  2. 3:06didn't get an aliyah so our sages instituted that there's a hierarchy that the kaihan since
  3. 5:38dakisha where we have peace where we have something in the celestial uh beings so to
  4. 8:10exactly where i belong in a hierarchy that's one way that we get to peace the
  5. 10:11they're winning the race look where i am again this comes in line with being honest
  6. 12:54the sages say how awesome how great is the concept of peace this comes back to
  7. 15:30they had bowed down to the golden calf and there was no greater uh defines of
  8. 17:30you have the the the attribute of divine justice saying look they broke the relationship with
  9. 20:08a plague to cause many people to die heaven forbid he can do it you can
  10. 22:40i'm upset you guys have broken your relationship with me and then we need to step

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