[Avodah] Putting oneself in danger

[T613K at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/31/2006 2:18:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
salman at videotron.ca writes:


 
 
R' Chaim Manaster wrote:
>>....They
surrounded them on  four sides. R. Nosson says they left the fourth side
open "kedai  sheyivrechu," so that they c[s]hould run away. He asks why
should R.  Nosson allow them to get away? [gave a long answer]<<
 





 

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TK: >>Please excuse me if I'm saying something so obvious that of  /course/ 
you already knew this, but -- the pshat is, if you don't allow a  defeated 
enemy an escape route, you corner him and force him to fight to the  death -- thus 
leading to unnecessary deaths among your own  men.<<



CM:  >>Sure, but that was not my point. My point was the  "[gave a long 
answer]" that you seem to have ignored.<< 
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I didn't /ignore/ your long answer, I responded that I didn't see the need  
for it, since there was a simpler and more obvious explanation.  You now  
respond that not everyone agrees with the simple explanation -- well, OK.   But 
what you probably should have done in the first place is say what problems  in 
the simple explanation necessitated a less obvious and more convoluted  
explanation.  


--Toby  Katz
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