War, Peace and Moral Precision: A Deep Torah Analysis - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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Okay. So, again, we've been spending a little bit of time on this. Hopefully, I'll I'll finish up today and without even giving the whole shir on it, uh the the two issues that we were focusing on is uh the fact that Rakav and her family were spared even though she was in the city of Uho. And later we read about the Gibonim, the oath that Yoshua made to the Gonim thinking they came from a far away land. And because of that covenant uh Yahosua did not kill them and they uh Yahosua did not kill them and they were made a servant class to beimoim uh cutters of wood and drawers of water uh for the Mishkan which was in Shilo at the time or Gilgal again Gil initially then Sheila and then eventually the Basa Mikdash in in Urulay. Right? So we have these two instances of uh saving a group that fell under the Canaanite nations that were within the Canaanite nations and that immediately creates the problem. Doesn't the Torah creates the problem. Doesn't the Torah require the eradication of the seven nations of Kanan. Right? That's the issue. So once again it all depends how you answer this question depends on the maklo rashi in the Rambam. Right? Just to summarize according to the Rambam that says that even visav the seven nations we offer shalom meaning after we cross the ardane even in the middle of a war there's an opportunity for shalom and shalom as you recall means the seven mitzvos plus Jewish sovereignty and

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2. 4:07to the seven nations if an Amorite or a Canaanite converts to Judaism They may be…
3. 8:45brought down in that the power of the isalim this was an onish to Moshe so…
4. 12:48lands, you know. Okay. But many understand that didn't mean to say there's a mitzvah of…
5. 17:30the water became like a solid wall to their right mamm to their left. In other…
6. 22:12the different cloths on wagons. Mari also by wagons transported the crushim, the boards, the beams.…
7. 26:21coain couldn't carry the ark but hashem changed the mitzvah from levim to kohhanim raan son…
8. 31:02will have the same age restrictions. Okay. So that's a tota meaning according to ramb and…
9. 35:13arane. So it's not clear to me what is it not to know about that place.…
10. 39:49Kohanim and Levim are in the middle with the arin kodesh who's holding the arin would…

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