DEUT352 See [[DEUT135]] Deuteronomy 4:37 loved OXFORD 40

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DEUT353 See [[DEUT3]] Deuteronomy 1:11 bless ROSNER-BLEICH 61

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DEUT354 It was taught: Rebbi says: "And the Lord shall remove from you every ill" -- this is "burning" [i.e., high fever]. R. Eliezer b. Yaakov says This is ambition-- in consistency with his view, viz. (28:48): "And He shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck" -- this is ambition. R. Avon says: This is the evil inclination, whose beginning is sweet, and whose end is bitter [("ill,") "choli," being similar to "chali," ("sweet")] (Yerushalmi Shabbath 14:3)

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DEUT355 See [[EXOD238]] Exodus 15:26 sickness DUTIES 733-5

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DEUT356 See [[EXOD239]] Exodus 15:26 sicknesses TZADIK 341

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DEUT357 This splendid Messianic age can occur, though, only if the impediments to its realization are first removed. Thus many biblical and rabbinic visions of the end time include a war against the forces of evil. (See, for example, Isaiah 2:1-4, 11:1-12, and Micah 4:1-6.) Similarly, significant strides in improving the communal level of health can happen only if sources of pollution are removed or at least ameliorated and if common social practice like smoking and driving while drunk are curtailed. Eliminating obstacles to help must accompany the positive steps we take to ensure it.

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DEUT359 See [[NUM392]] Numbers 33:52 destroy BLOCH 63-4

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DEUT358 See [[EXOD272]] Exodus 17:15 Amalek LOC 149-50

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DEUT360 See [[DEUT381]] Deuteronomy 8:11 forget SPERO 138

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DEUT361 Israel's hold on the land, however, was, from the very first promise to Abram, dependent on obeying God's will. Thus, as the Bible and Rabbis present it, it was Israel’s failure to obey God that prompted God to allow other nations (Assyria, Babylonia, Rome) to conquer Israel and drive them from the land. Part of the promise of the Land of Israel, then, is a war to reclaim the land from Israel’s oppressors. Although the universalists among us--and even those who believe in Jewish nationhood, but currently live in harmony and even friendship with non-Jewish neighbors--may flinch at the triumphalism of the biblical and rabbinic passages that promise such victory, the twentieth-century experience of Jews with the Soviets and the Nazis may make these sources more understandable and even palatable. The strife is sometimes symbolized by the term “the wars of Gog and Magog,” a theme taken from chapter 38 in the Book of Ezekiel but reinterpreted to mean the wars against the enemies of Israel and/or the wars of the enemies of Israel against each other.

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