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Ki Tetse – Swords Into Ploughshares

Originally published in The Jewish Gazette, 11 August 1972. We read in this week’s sidra of a special functionary called by the rabbis mashuach milchamah, ‘the one anointed for battle’. The duty of this high dignitary was to address the soldiers before they went out to do battle against their foes, reminding them of their religious…

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