[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

[Zev Sero]

On 11/05/2012 2:22 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:57:31PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 11/05/2012 1:54 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>>> But for a milkhemes mitzvah, no one can stay home -- Misnah Sotah
>>> 8:7. "Bameh devarim amurim, bemilchemes reshus. Aval bemilchemes mitzvah,
>>> hekol yotzei."
>
>> How do you know that includes the full-time TC?
>
> Like on the Peng Peng thread... If there is nothing saying otherwise,
> why would you invent exclusions. We have nothing saying that "hakol"
> dosen't literally mean "hakol".

But we know from elsewhere that TC are not supposed to be conscripted.
So as not to create an unnecessary contradiction we should read here
that they aren't subject to conscription in the first place, and are
therefore not included in those who are (or in milchemes mitzvah are not)
released from service.

-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon