Shnayim Yomi - Shoftim - Sh'vi'i - #7

[Music] when you go to conquer a city first you should give them a pitch to make peace and if they agree then they will be your slaves and pay you taxes if they don't agree to make peace with you rest assured they're going to try to fight you and therefore you should beat them to it and put a siege around that city and if it's a city that's not from the seven nations of canaan then go after the males only and kill every male but the woman and the children and the spoils take for yourselves but if it's from the seven nations of kinan don't let anybody survive kill men woman and child because the nations the seven nations of canaan if you don't kill them they will influence you and teach you their abominable ways and cause you to sin against god and then the torah tells us when you're putting a siege around this world city and you're going to want to chop a tree in order to build a wooden platform to go above their wall and shoot at them don't chop a fruit tree it's forbidden chop a tree that does not grow fruit [Music] you