[Avodah] Putting oneself in danger

[hankman]

CM responds: 
What do you mean "I responded that I didn't see the need for it, since there was a simpler and more obvious explanation." In that case once you have one decent peshat, who needs the other 69 - what happened to shivim panim leTorah? That's it. Done my days work. Now that I have one peshat, I can close up shop?

In any case, your problem is not with me but with the Panim Yafos who gives that little pshet'l. My point was not the specific peshat he gives but the fact the pshet'l implies you are don in shailos in an ais milchama. (This is not the best proof of this point as this may not be in the actual battlefield).

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: T613K at aol.com 
  To: avodah at aishdas.org 
  Cc: salman at videotron.ca 
  Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:16 AM
  Subject: Re: Putting oneself in danger


  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]<<


      .
      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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