Wars, Sports, and Jewish Safety: Rav Moshe’s Teaching

And they go out opposite each other to battle.

Umaktil chad minayhu, v'umdai, u'mitardei l'ukmi

malka. And through that, they're so busy in

establishing new sovereignties in the place

where the person fell, that they don't bother

Klal Yisrael. Meaning, that Hashem does a chesed,

and they're so busy killing each other that

they don't kill us. So, it's a historical overview

of the various wars and battles, world wars,

etc. So busy battling each other, they leave

us alone. Now, Rav Moshe Zatzal would say, that

that's the ma'alah of sports. The goyim are

so busy in sports, they don't have time to cheppah

the Jews. Instead of boxing, where they pummel

and kill each other, instead of pummeling and

killing us. Kol panim, they have national pastimes,

some of them benign like baseball, some a little

more dangerous like football, where they're

wired for sound to hear the crunch of the broken

bone. But the more they pummel each other, the

less they pummel us. Ita b'Romi, v'chol yoma

nafka hani l'havya. They kill each other, umaktil

chad minayhu, knock off one of them, mitardei

l'ukmi malka. And that's really Malka, establishing

another king. That's what Yaakov was davening

for, that they should knock each other out.

The descendants of Eisav. Whether Edom, or Germamia

of Edom, they should be so busy fighting each

other that they don't bother us.