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Navos, as it is says ‘A spirit went out and stood before Hashem’ (ibid.
22:21) – that was the spirit of Navos (Sanhedrin 103). And it was told,
‘Incite and you will succeed’ (ibid. passuk 22). And this evildoer [i.e.
Achav] did not kill him [i.e. Navos] outright but merely orchestrated
his death, all the more so [does this sin weight heavily on] a person
who killed outright.”

Now, in the book of Devarim the Torah says,“When you go out to
war against your enemy and Hashem… delivers them into your hands
and you carry away their captives. And you see a beautiful woman
among the captives and you desire her you take her to you as a wife”
(21:10-11). Since it would seem sufficient to have written, “When you
go out to war… and you carry away their captives,” why did the Torah
add the words,“and Hashem… delivers them into your hands”?

This question is asked by the Meshech Chochmah, who gives the
answer that the Torah is limiting the allowance to marry the “beauti-
ful woman,” to situations where Hakadosh baruch Hu has delivered
the enemy into our hands completely. However, if Hashem has not
granted us complete victory and the other side has taken some of our
people captive as well, we may not act on the allowance in this section
about“the beautiful woman.” For it is possible that because a Jew con-
verts her and marries her against her will that they too will hold on to
the Jews whom they have taken captive and treat them as they please.

From here we see that although [in permitting this woman] “the
Torah is speaking in response to the yetzer hara [the evil inclination]”
during battle and permitting the violation of prohibitions between
man and G-d, there is nevertheless no allowance whatsoever for one
person acting in a way that could result in other people suffering. This
sheds light upon our question too, indicating that we must provide
appropriate medical care to a murderer whom we have captured, so
that our enemies will treat their captive Jews, as well as those Jews
who live in their countries, in the same manner. The same holds true
in the question about treating the Arab boy, for many of our brethren
are tantamount to captives in the hands of our enemies, and the Jew-
ish nation is scattered among the nations of the world, many of whom

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