Reply To: Responsibility to serve – without the politics

Toi, my lilfe is not so simple, I guess. There are a surfeit of poskei halocho who defer or deferred on issues of the security of am yisroel to security experts. There are many who disagree with this approach. So whether you answer the question, or you bring the answer of a godol to the question, I don’t care. 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? If there is an answer to this question from anyone, from a godol in Torah to a balabos to an am haaretz, I’d be pleased if someone could provide it.