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<div>>> (a) and (b) aren't entirely separable... Nobody claimed (b) in the absolute terms you are putting it <<</div>
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<div>I disagree, in the terms that I put it. Which people here *did* claim, or at least imply, by asking why Yeshiva boys run away when rockets are raining down on their Dalet Amos. The equivalent of this by theft is a thief walking into the house of a Talmid Chacham and the TC saying - ha, ha, you can't steal from me, I'm a Talmid Chacham! </div>
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<div>>> If the same is true of war, and I argued it isn't <<</div>
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<div>See the Tzitz Eliezer I cited. L'maaseh, it is.</div>
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<div>>> And the precedents of Yehoshua <<</div>
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<div>Kibbush HaAretz needed to be done davka Bekoach HaTorah.</div>
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<div>>> the Shofetim <<</div>
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<div>Who, by and large, were not the greatest Talmidei Chachamim of their times.</div>
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<div>>> Shaul <<</div>
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<div>Hashem explicitly appointed him as the best there was. </div>
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<div>>> David haMelekh <<</div>
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<div>See Rashi Sanhedrin 49a - "Ilmalei David Shehayah Osek BaTorah, Lo Asah Yoav Milchamah, Aval Zechuso Shel David Omedes Lo LeYoav BeMilchamosav Shel David."</div>
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<div>>> R' Aqiva -- including avos of their respective Batei Din haGadol -- are<br>also relevent. <<</div>
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<div>Sources?<br><br></div></div></div><br></div>