If it says Hashem Ish Milchomo, Hashem is a warrior, then doesn't that mean that we should emulate Him?
ANSWER:
Certainly, and that's why when it was necessary Mattisyahu and his children became anshei milchomo and they gave their lives on the battlefield; every one of them died fighting for Hashem and his Torah. Or when you have to fight against the reformers, against liberals, against reshoim, against homosexuals, you can't sit back and say it's none of my business, no!! You have to be ish milchomo.
You have to get up and battle! Doesn't mean with your fists, you won't accomplish much. You accomplish with letters, telephone calls to the City Councilman.
Certainly you have to do things, we have to be anshei milchomo. Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants it, milchemes hayeitzer, to battle with the yeitzer hara, certainly there is a lot to do.
One of the biggest ways of fighting with our enemies, is to help yeshivas! Yeshivas are battalions where the soldiers are being trained in war. Certainly we have to be ish milchomo! When you go out and you support - let's say families that are raising children in Eretz Yisroel, that they have 13 children - you're ish milchomo if you raise money for them.
Because anybody that is raising 13 children is raising a battalion that's going to wage war on the yeitzer hara, they're all frum children. That's the way to fight back.
Certainly you have to fight back, and that's why we have this moshol to be a model for us.
Good Shabbos To All
This is transcribed from questions that were posed to Harav Miller by the audience at the Thursday night lectures. To listen to the audio of this Q & A please dial: 201-676-3210
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