Aug 12, 2026 · 15 min · 7 segments
The preoccupation with the question of who goes to war is not new. It is a question that meets us, Israeli society, in our day-to-day lives. There is an acute sense here of exhaustion of military…
There's an acute sense here of exhaustion of military forces alongside awareness of the high price that those who serve and their families pay.
This is accompanied by political tension surrounding the issue of military service, and all of these together grow day by day and even fuel one another.
The Torah recognizes the reality of a society at war and knows what going into battle entails.
Two sections and their rabbinic interpretations discuss the kind of people who should or should not go into battle.
The verses that appear in Parashat Shoftim deal directly with the question of conscription and formulate rules and offer tools to think about this complex question.
By putting those two perspectives in conversation, we can approach a modern problem through a Torah lens.
There's an acute sense here of exhaustion of military forces alongside awareness of the high price that those who serve and their families pay.
This is accompanied by political tension surrounding the issue of military service, and all of these together grow day by day and even fuel one another.
The Torah recognizes the reality of a society at war and knows what going into battle entails.
Two sections and their rabbinic interpretations discuss the kind of people who should or should not go into battle.
The verses that appear in Parashat Shoftim deal directly with the question of conscription and formulate rules and offer tools to think about this complex question.
By putting those two perspectives in conversation, we can approach a modern problem through a Torah lens.
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