Does The IDF Need More Soldiers? Parashat Ki Teitzei

0:04In this parasha, it says: When you go out to war against your enemies, and Hashem, your God, delivers them into your hands and you will capture their captivity. So here we see... Hashem is telling us you're gonna go to war, but if you're doing the will of Hashem, Hashem is going to put the enemy in your hands. Put the enemy in your hands, you have nothing to worry about. Whether it's Goliath or the Palestinian terrorists of today, whoever it is, if you're fulfilling the will of Hashem, like David HaMelech, honored Hashem's name on a daily basis, there's nothing to worry about. Which you should know, also one of the things that's very difficult for us to understand is that the wars of David HaMelech are very different than today. The wars of Moshe Rabbeinu are very different than today. I don't mean what most people are thinking right now. No, yeah, of course, they're different. Today we have F-16s. Today we have planes. Today we have atomic bombs. No, no, no, that's not what I mean.

1:20What I mean is, Hashem says, "When you do My will, one person can kill 10,000." So when Moshe Rabbeinu would send people to war, he wouldn't send everyone to war; he'd leave most of them studying Torah. David HaMelech wanted to send people to war. Hashem said, "No, no, no, let Me give you some rules to limit who you send to war. If he just got married in the last year, keep him home." If he spoke between the Tefillin of the Yad and the Rosh, there's a safek (doubt) about whether he spoke or didn't speak, keep him home. If he started a business, give him a bunch of rules about keeping a bunch of soldiers home. Why? Why keep him home? We're going to war. Isn't it the power of numbers? Why is everyone scared of China? They're the biggest army in the world. Why is everyone scared of America? They have the most weapons in the world. People are scared of numbers. Here, Hashem made laws in the Torah that are limiting our numbers. He's saying, no, no, no, fewer people can go to war. Why? Because it doesn't matter how many people you send to war. Go send 30 people to war.

2:30Against all of America, all of Egypt, all of Japan, all of China, the whole war—30 people were still gonna win. Why? Yad Hashem. Yad Hashem. Yad Hashem. Hashem decides who wins, not your sword, not your missiles, not your bombs, not your nothing. One of the things that the prophecies of the end of times predict is that one of these countries, which are enemies of Am Yisrael according to the Torah, will attempt to launch an atomic bomb. It will be something directed at Am Yisrael, but Hashem will intervene and stop it in midair. Based on the way it's described, this appears to be a missile that carries an atomic bomb, as interpreted by the sages and commentaries. Someone's going to launch an atomic bomb. It's supposed to hit Israel, and you assume it shouldn't stop in the sky because you're thinking that only human efforts matter. But Hashem runs the show. Whether it's thirty people, three people, three hundred thousand people, or fifty—it doesn't make a difference.

3:42Doesn't make a difference. Anyone who's having doubts about what I just said, you have to work on it. Why? Because you're doubting Hashem. You're limiting Hashem. You're saying Hashem needs a million-people army to beat a big army. By saying 30 people as an army is too little or not having enough weapons is too little. Saying that a certain budget is too limited. Saying that Hashem needs anything to win a war against anything is limiting Hashem. It's limiting Hashem. And according to Meiri, it's a Chillul Hashem. We have to work on it. We have to stop. We have to stop with this limiting of Hashem. If you follow My laws, and keep My commandments, and do them,