popa, that question you asked Avi K gets in to another area – Rambam’s and other’s discussion of what constitutes a milchemes mitzvah, what constitutes a milchemes reshus, and what a milchemes chovah, as it is described in the rishonim. I don’t have all of the sources in front of me, so I will ask instead of state – if defending Jewish lives and land in eretz Yisrael proper is either a milchemes mitzvah or a milchemes chovah, does that obligate one to fight, or at least support the capacity to fight such milchamos?
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