[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:22:11PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> 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?

Perhaps not. Maybe because Lot could have been freed in other ways,
it was a milkhemes reshus. Also, what about Avraham not getting blamed
for his own fighting?

Besides, you're arguing with a stam mishnah by quoting an aggadita.

:-)BBii!
-Micha