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  • The Talmud itself establishes a general prohibition on elective or preemptive war ( "milchemet reshut"), doesn't it?

    CT-SEN: Lieberman's College Roommate Endorses Lamont 2009

  • Permission is thus granted to the destroyer nittenah reshut la-mashchit to hijack your religion as you watch, while you remain helpless-because you are a decent person who loves the Jewish people and shuns divisiveness.

    An interesting letter | Jewschool 2007

  • The younger pair gave them precedence, a breeze swept through, the maid reshut her door, Hugh, holding his, bade her follow her mistress, she sprang to obey and the "veil of mystery," which caught in the closed door, was stripped from her like a sail from a wreck.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • As he spoke he laughed, not sardonically, -- a jovial laugh, -- and opened wide, to reshut as in a vice, the strong iron hand which had doubtless closed over many a man's all.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • As he spoke he laughed, not sardonically, -- a jovial laugh, -- and opened wide, to reshut as in a vice, the strong iron hand which had doubtless closed over many a man's all.

    The Parisians — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • At marriage, she left his legal domain, reshut, transferred to her husband’s legal domain and cannot return to her father’s legal dominion although she may return to his household.

    Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • (milkhemet reshut).140 The labeling of Prime Minister Begin's "Peace for Galilee"

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Ethan Allen 2010

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