Parasha: Ki Tetze
Love and War
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Ki Tetze - ×›×™ ×ª×¦× : "When you go"
Torah : Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19
Haftarah : Isaiah 54:1-10
Gospel : Acts 13-15
Thought for the Week:
A popular English maxim states, "All's fair in love and war." The implication is that rules of proper conduct can be suspended when fighting on the field of battle and when playing on the field of romance. The Torah disagrees.
Commentary:
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself ... (Deuteronomy 21:10-11)
According to the Torah, not everything is fair in love or war. Last week's Torah portion spelled out certain laws of conduct for warfare. This week's Torah portion introduces the prospect of romance on the battlefield.
A soldier in a heathen army would have no compunction over taking, rap...
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