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face=Arial>From: Lisa Liel <lisa@starways.net><BR>>>I don't
understand how anyone can claim this isn't a time of war.<BR>War doesn't require
an official declaration. We have a nation attempting<BR>to destroy ours. In the
words of the Maharal MiPrague, "Ein lecha<BR>milchama gedola
mi-zu".<<<BR><BR>Lisa<BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm amazed that the Maharal weighed in on this discussion about women going
to the Israeli army. I didn't even know he was still alive (except in the
"Yakov Avinu lo meis" sense). If he said this at a press conference, on a
Meah She'arim pashkevil, in a Yated editorial, or in a posting to Avodah -- I
missed them all.</DIV>
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<DIV>However, as I learned from a human encyclopedia whom I
consulted, Targum had previously made a statement on the same
subject. Targum wrote that Yael killed Sisra with a tent peg and
not with a weapon, "in order to fulfill what is written in Toras Moshe, 'A
male utensil shall not be on a woman.'" It is just amazing that
Targum did not know that the war against Sisera was a milchemes mitzva and hence
Yael could have used a gun. Well I guess that Maharal sure took Targum
down a peg.</DIV>
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