A teacher I had in yeshiva once said to me that "nothing the Jews do right according to Torah can be used against them by the enemies of Israel."
i.e. That which klal Yisroel fails to do properly can be used against them by the enemies of Israel.
This is reflected in the Kinnos liturgy from Tisha b'Av:
"We have been made into slaves
Because we did not follow the commandment to release slaves on time.
We pay with our very lives for our bread
Because we skipped over the hands of the poor amongst us.
The women of Zion do they torture
Because the wife of our fellow we have defiled and adultered."
What can we learn, as a klal, from Hamas' war tactics?
Fill in the blanks.
In Gaza,
Our soldiers are being drawn into booby-trapped homes,
Because we...
Our soldiers are being lured into booby-trapped schools,
Because we...
Our soldiers are being chased by suicide bombers,
Because we...
Our civilians are being bombarded with rockets ("words" are likened to "arrows"),
Because we...
Our soldiers are threatened with kidnapping,
Because we...
They use underground tunnels carved out of Eretz HaKodesh (the Holy Land),
Because we...
Fill in the blanks.
I mean, we need to really fill in the blanks.
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