[Avodah] Questions about mechiyas amalek

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 2:55pm EDT, R' Elazar M Teitz wrote:
:      I have seen it attributed to the Gr"a (but don't remember where I saw
: it) that Yoav's rebbi's error was to render the word as "zecher," rather
: than "zeicher," and interpreting the word as the s'michus form of "zachar,"
: just as "k'eshen hakivshan" in Sh'mos 19:18 is s'michus for ashan.

R Mordechai Breuer <www.herzog.ac.il/tvunot/fulltext/mega10_broyer.pdf>


On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:30pm Israel Daylight Time, R Ben Waxman wrote:
: How is it that Yoav made such a grievous mistake? No one told him
: what the mitzvah and the dinim were?

: Having said that, it seems that even righteous kings made grievous
: mistakes in the halacha. David (according to the Ramban) didn't know
: that counting the number of Bnei Yisrael was assur, and apparently
: no one informed him.

And, apparently, the king and the head general didn't discuss anything
about the prosecution of the war. Despite the fact that the law is a
unique mitzvah, and the king was also the av beis din. AND we know Yoav
was strongly deferential to David.

Alternatively (and this has been my working assumption, as I can't
picture the scene playing out any other way), Yoav did consult with
David haMelekh, who bought in to Yoav's position. But that raises the
questions as to why.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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