Reply To: Responsibility to serve – without the politics

RR, many are aware of Rambam Hilchos talmud torah 3:10 but they ignore it; of course the ubiquitous “we” will say that “we” don’t pasken like that Rambam, or, even better, that’s not what he meant to say. Of course. So too here. Moshe Rabeinu asked a question. We know how Reuven, Gad, and chatzi Menashe answered it. You want to give me a raye why we don’t have to answer that question, or we don’t doresh anything from it, maybe you and choppy, who doesn’t make much sense, can answer this; If you assume that HKBH wants Torah to defend am Yisroel in every instance, why on earth would Moshe Rabeinu have to demand that Reuven Gad and chatzi Menashe would have to cross and fight, even during a time of miraculous conquest and nisim giluyim? Why didn’t Moshe ask them to sit down in a beis medresh?

And Choppy, though it might be the opinion of some that the current situation is a milchemes mitzvah, I feel the milchemes chovah definition is much more poshut., so, “wrong”. I’ didn’t write that it was a milchemes mitzva. Read better, and maybe learn the sugyah in kesef mishna.