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<DIV>In a message dated 8/31/2006 2:18:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
salman@videotron.ca writes:</DIV>
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size=2>R' Chaim Manaster wrote:<BR>>>....They<BR>surrounded them on
four sides. R. Nosson says they left the fourth side<BR>open "kedai
sheyivrechu," so that they c[s]hould run away. He asks why<BR>should R.
Nosson allow them to get away? [gave a long answer]<<</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>TK: >>Please excuse me if I'm saying something so obvious that of
/course/ you already knew this, but -- the pshat is, if you don't allow a
defeated enemy an escape route, you corner him and force him to fight to the
death -- thus leading to unnecessary deaths among your own
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<P>CM: >>Sure, but that was not my point. My point was the
"[gave a long answer]" that you seem to have ignored.<<</P>
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<DIV>I didn't /ignore/ your long answer, I responded that I didn't see the need
for it, since there was a simpler and more obvious explanation. You now
respond that not everyone agrees with the simple explanation -- well, OK.
But what you probably should have done in the first place is say what problems
in the simple explanation necessitated a less obvious and more convoluted
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><B><BR>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============<BR></B></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>