The sefer / Part I / Torah 107
כי תצא למלחמה על איביך
No shiur on this Torah yet. R’ Moshe’s shiurim so far cover Torahs 1–34.
English translation by Moshe Mykoff © Breslov Research Institute, from Sefaria, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.
“Should you go out to battle against your enemies and God your Lord give him into your hand and you take captives from him.” (Deuteronomy 21:10)
This is the explanation: Should you go out to battle against your enemies—This being the Evil Inclination,
and God your Lord gives him into your hands—In other words, the Evil Inclination gives—i.e., delivers—“God your Lord into your hands,” as in “The tzaddik rules with the fear of God” (2 Samuel 23:3).
The Torah provides advice for this:
and you take some of them captive—In other words, by using that very thing with which it seeks to overpower you—namely, pride—to overpower it. That is, say to it, “How can I rule when I am haughty, and the Holy Blessed One does not reside with me?” This is sufficient for the insightful.