How can "Righteous Soldiers" (like King David) lust on the battlefield? A mystical take.
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There's צֶדֶק – justice in the sense of social-contract. Then there is צֶדֶק צֶדֶק, which is Justice with a capital J, the attainment of judicial righteousness, which is an ideal to be pursued (תִּרְדֹּף"), though never quite attained.
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To prevent human sacrifce by the uneducated, the Temple is located on the Mountain of the עֲקֵדַת יִצְחָק
?אַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּן אֶת הַמְּקוֹמוֹת – How does one destroy a place
Joseph was the personification of Traditionalism. Moshe was the personification of chinuch
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Why was the Conquest of the Land supposed to proceed slowly? Who are the "Wild Beasts?"
Why is a nochri punished so severely for shemiras Shabbos?
What exactly transpired in Galus Bavel?
Why was Half-Manasseh invited in by Moses? And given so much land?
The kids lived in a rough neighborhood (מִפְּנֵי יוֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ), heavily armed and without paternal supervision for years. result? בְּגִלְעָד נְפִישֵׁי רוֹצְחִין!
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Moshe (a former "Midianite") is told to lead the war. He tries to wiggle out, but as events unfold, he is dragged into the thick of it.
Why did the Civil Wars between the Tribes in the Desert degenerate into exterminatory massacres?
So many Jews have deluded themselves that they were building "alliances" only to discover on October 7th that they had been building on sand
Contrast the two stories: a.) The King of Arad b.) Bil'am, the lethal rhetoric, and the Bnos Moav
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Is becoming Tamei a sin?
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With the democtatic model of politics discredited by the Golden Calf episode, Moses resorts to the aristocratic model of political decision-making, and suffers blowback
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Did each spy seperately present his own report to Moshe, or did the ten spies hammer out a single unified consensus report prior to returning to the camp?
The commentaries struggle to interpret this rhetorical passage which poetically and enigmatically reveals aspects of Moshe’s uniqueness
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What would lead a wife to “live dangerously” after being warned by the husband in front of witnesses?
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