[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Fri May 11 12:22:11 PDT 2012


On 11/05/2012 3:17 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> But we know from elsewhere that TC are not supposed to be conscripted.
>
> Specifying a milkhemes mitzvah? The mishnah at the end of the pereq
> listing exemptions is "Bameh devarim amurim, bemilchemes reshus. Aval
> bemilchemes mitzvah..."

Avraham's war was not a milchemes mitzvah?

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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



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