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Avi K
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Assurnet, chas v’shalom!a. If you recall Gafni supported the government that expelled the Jews from Gush Katif. So maybe it is a mitzva to give him his pension. In any case, the alternative was a civil war, which would have been much worse. Such a war is definitely not a milchemet mitzva. This is proven from the fact that talmidei chachamim were exempted from puttting down Avshalom’s rebellion. Regarding the rest, it is the police not the IDF who enforce those decisions – and IMHO those Jews who were put in administrative detention (regardless of how one feels about it in principle) were, in fact, doing the opposite of following Tora.

Health, you, HaKatan and Joseph are one group in my mind.

Hudi, who says that one must wait until Mashiach comes (BTW, there are two – and according to Rav Kook Mashiach ben Yosef, whose job is kibbutz galuyot and building the material side of EY, has already come) to do a mitzva?