[Avodah] having a melech: lechatchila or bideved???

[Rich, Joel]

David Riceman wrote:
> Harvey Benton wrote:
>> Is having a melech a bidieved or a lechatchila?
>>   
> See Ibn Ezra Shoftim 17:15 s.v. "Som Tasim".
>
> David Riceman
>
And see Rabbi Hartman's footnote 14 in his edition of Gur Aryeh Noah
10:8 (and, of course, what the Maharal says there).

David Riceman
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Listen to the current series on KMTT (Gush) - English- Society and Halacha.  #3 speaks to this as do the others.\
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Joel Rich
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