Historical Perspective on Wars and Sports

And they go out

opposite each other to battle. «ומכתל חד מניו

ונגדע ומתרדה לעוקמי מלכו.»

And through that, they're so busy

in establishing new sovereignties

in the place where the person fell,

they don't bother Klal Yisroel. Meaning,

Hashem does a hesed, 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, et cetera.

So busy battling each other, they leave us alone.

Now, Rabbi Moshe Zatzal would say,

"That's the value of sports. The goyim are so busy in sports,

they don't have time

to chefer the Jews."

If ever saw boxing, where they pummel and kill each other,

instead of pummeling and

killing us. Good for them. They have natio-national pastimes, some

of them benign, like baseball, some of them 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.

«יקברמי פחוי מנפק הני לאבי». They kill each other, «מכתל חד

מניו», knock off one of them, «מתרדה לעוקמי מלכו».

And that's really to malcho, establishing another king.

That's what Yaakov was davening for, that they should knock each other out, the

descendants of Esav. Whether Edom

or Gerar of Edom, they should be so busy fighting