"ושרי ביששכר עם דבורה ויששכר כן ברק בעמק שלח ברגליו"
"The leaders of Yissachar were with Devorah, and so was the rest of Yissacher with Barak, into the valley he was sent on his feet"
In Shoiftem, there is a small paragraph about Devorah Ha'nevuah!
Klall Yisrael was facing Sisra the powerful Canaanite general who had a large, armored force, and who oppressed the Jewish people for 20 years! To make a short story even shorter, Devorah did what no previous Jewish leader had ever done before, and I'm including Yehoshua; she spearheaded the war and ended Canaanite domination of Israel forever!
But this did not come easy, not because of Sisra.... nope... not at all!
The reason it was difficult (I hope you are sitting) was ..... because Devorah had a hard time putting together an army with all the tribes!
She wanted "achdus" she wanted ALL tribes to participate and she unfortunately didn't get it!
Although Barak, her general issued his call to arms only to Zevulin and Naftali, who were nearest to the battlefield, and other tribes subsequently joined him, Some responded nobly; but others disgracefully!!
In her thanks to the RBS"O for winning the war, called "Shiras Devorah," she found space in her one-page poem to chastise Shevet Reuvein who did not join the army, and were instead waiting to see how the war would progress, they figured that if Barak had the upper hand in the war against the Canaanites, they would then join.
According to Rashi, Devorah thought that this was deceitful and couldn't understand how Jews could behave that way when their brethren were in danger!
And you don't need Rashi for this, Devorah says this herself, outright!
במפלגות ראובן גדולים חקקי-לב, למה ישבת בין המשפתים לשמוע שריקות עדרים לפלגות ראובן גדולים חקרי לב,
"But in the indecisiveness of Reuvein there was great deceit, Why would you remain sitting at the borders to hear the bleatings of the flocks? the indecision of Reuvein demands great investigation!
But I skipped a verse in Shiras Devorah! Where she praises Shevet Yissachar for stepping up to fight!
"ושרי ביששכר עם דבורה ויששכר כן ברק בעמק שלח ברגליו"
"The leaders of Yissachar were with Devorah, and so was the rest of Yissacher with Barak, into the valley he was sent on his feet"
What????? Shevet Yissachar??? Fight??? ...
One minute!!!! Is that in Shiras Devorah or did that sneaky DIN make it up??
One of the most important arguments of the Chareidim not to enlist and fight is that
"Shevet Yissacher did not go to war"
Of course, we go to our rebbe, Rashi, to see what he says.
Rashi learned this verse as follows:
Part of Shevet Yissacher went with Devorah TO WAR, but was there to guide her in Torah and Halakhos and these were the Sanhedrin!
Sanhedrin, meaning the Judges on the courts, not the typical guy from the Shevet who may or may have not learned in Kollel, the guy taking a break with a cigarette in one hand and a "cafe ha'fuch" in the other!
The rest of Shevet Yissachar went with Barak to fight in the war as indicated by Devorah herself in the above quoted verse! ויששכר כן ברק
To bolster my argument that Shevet Yissacher actually did go to battle, I found a Rashi that quotes Onkelos in Sefer Bereishis 49:15
Yaakov Aveenu in Parshas Va'Yechi blesses Yissacher:
"וירא מנוחה כי טוב ואת הארץ כי נעמה ויט שכמו לסבול ויהי למס-עבד"
"And he saw a resting place, that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant, and he bent his shoulder to bear and he became an indentured laborer"
On the words ויט שכמו Rashi quotes Onkelos:
ואנקלות תרגם בפנים אחירם,ויט שכמו לסבול מלחמות ולכבוש מחוזות, שהם יושבים על הספר, ויהי האויב כבוש תחתיו למס עובד
"Targum Onkelos interpreted the verse in a different manner, ויט שכמו לסבול מלחמות to fight in wars and to conquer territories, for they live on the border, and the enemy will be subdued beneath him as an indentured laborer"
The pshat that Rashi brings in Bereishis from Onkelos vis-a-vis Yissasschar fits nicely in Shiras Devorah!
What we see here is that even the Sanhedrin that did not fight, came to accompany and support Devorah in war! They weren't shutting their Gemmaras Bein Hazmanim to picnic and do tiyulim! They went to the battlefield!!
And we learn that in a Milchamas Mitzvah even Shevet Yissacher fought!
Hashem gave her and the nation after this war 40 years of peace!
Just in case you didn't open a sefer today yet, you were just "Yoitzeh" with my Dvar Torah!
9 comments:
Nac"h is full of lots of inconvenient historical events and deeds. The Chareidi approach to this has been
1) We don't study Nac"h
2) When we do, it's a haftarah and we don't actually read the text but Chazal's interpretation of it
So if a woman can't be a judge, then Devorah wasn't really a judge even though the text calls her one. And Yissacher fought by doing extra shiurim and saying tehillim.
who is devorah of today that the shevet Zevulan should go to war with? the self hating jews of the state - thats whole puprose is to make everyone frai ?? apple to apples please - this one doesn't make sense.
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First of all I said Shevet Yissacher!!
Also your cockamamie statement that "- that's whole purpose is to make everyone frei" is so dumb and bizarre!
"Make everyone frei?" why are you repeating the dumb statements of the crazed RY?
There are more Torah institutions in the Zionist State than anywhere in the entire world!
There is more Torah learned in the Zionist State than anywhere in the entire world!
The Zionist State has granted Moisdois Ha'Torah more money than any one in the history of the Jewish people and that's only in ONE year.
for example last year the Zionists gave over $325 million to Moisdois Hatorah and that is after massive cuts!
The Zionist State is the home now for the majority of the Jewish people !
And be careful how you talk about the Zionists who live in Israel
Hashem forgave the Jews for the Eigal but didn't forgive for the Meraglim!
Be careful if you want a healthy family, talking against those living in Israel does not end well!
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Your question "who is the devorah of today?" was asked by the shvatim when Devorah was actually living and thats why they refused to participate, they were cursed! Read the meforshei Tanach!
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I live in Monroe, I have BLE"H 11 children, not one ever stepped into The State of Israel, but that didn't stop three of my children from going completely off the derech, two others are unfortunately on the way lo'aleinu. There isn't a block in Monroe that doesn't have OTDs. I am now thinking that at least if they lived in Israel they would still marry Jewish, what hope do I have now? Just sayin'
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Jewish Children in Unifomr are dying and all you can say "the self hating jews of the state - thats whole puprose is to make everyone frai ??"
"self-hating Jews?" Those self=hating Jews are putting their lives on the line every single day!
How low can you go how low did you sink, you sick bastard! You are worse than Hamas, at least with them we know who our enemy is!
So sorry to hear you are going through such a hard time..May Hashem listen to all your tefilos...
I come from outside the box, and believe me, I went to a lot of trouble snd effort to become part of עם ישראל. And so, I have a right to say that even if it's an accepted term, anyone who uses the word "frei" to describe leaving Jewish religious practice is completely philosophically off the derech, and does not deserve to be heard.
Here's how big the OTD problem is.
40 years, Aish started their Discovery Seminars and predicted that, in a couple of generations, all non-religious Jews outside Israel would disappear because their children were all intermarrying and the grandchildren would be raised as Gentiles. At the time, the religious Jewish percentage was 10%.
Today we almost at the two generation mark and the percentage is still 10%. Why? Probably because a very large percentage of frum kids leave. Consider that.
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