0188 - Don't Make Him Fight You

00:01 There was a certain city where there were two Rabbanim that didn't get along with each other. And one of them wanted to open a shchita. And he told me that before he did it, he went to the Rebbe Yichidis, and he mentioned it to the Rebbe that he wants to open a shchita. And the Rebbe said to him, "Why don't you get the other Rav to join you?" So he says to the Rebbe that the other Rav is a terrible person. How could I join with him? So the Rebbe said to him like this, that's what he told me, that the mehuz, the metzis, I don't know exactly which lashon of that Rav, is Rabbanus. His whole thing is Rabbanus. So if you do anything that has to do with Rabbanus and you're gonna exclude him, you're gonna force him to fight with you. Don't do that. Don't do anything that will force him to fight and to challenge you, to attack you. And the Rebbe quoted a Halakh in Rambam. Actually, the Halakh is in Hilchas Malachim, Pelek Vav, Halakh Zayin. The Rambam says, "When you besiege a city to conquer it, don't surround it from all four sides. Surround it only from three sides. Leave the fourth side open. Give the people a chance to escape." In other words, don't force them to fight you back, because if they force you to fight back, I don't know if he said these words, you will have casualties. So leave it open that they should

01:19 be able to run away. Don't force them to fight. And he said the same thing here. Don't do something that will force the other person to fight you, and then it won't be good. It won't be good for you either. And therefore, he said you should ask him to join you.