
When
the Kedusha (purity) of Am Yisrael is on the line for all generations ahead,
nothing stands in front of Am Yisrael and we do whatever we can to keep us
pure. We see this in the hands of two thirteen year olds, two teenagers, from
our week’s exhilarating Parasha, Parashat VaYishlah.
The
two brave boys, Shimon and Levi, wipe out an entire city of men three days
after the entire city agrees to enter the covenant of Hashem, to do a Berit
Milah (circumcision) to join Am Yisrael and become one nation! Not only that,
this entire story began with Yaakov in the first place (a short time before
this story began). It is written in Rashi and other places that Yaakov had a
single moment to have Esav (his brother) do Teshuva (repent) because when
Yaakov was returning from Lavan he met Esav, who wanted to kill him. When they
physically touched, Yaakov and Esav were both brought to tears and had
incredible love for each other. At that moment Yaakov had the chance to bring
Dinah, his beautiful daughter, to Esav and have them get married and happily
lived ever after.
Yaakov
did not and the next Pasuk proves it by stating Esav lifted his eyes to the
women… (Bereshit 33:5). Yaakov’s punishment is finding out that his beloved
daughter was raped by a non-circumcised teen.

The
question is why? When the Torah explains that Dinah left her tent and she was
raped, at that moment the entire nation of Shechem should have jumped upon
Shechem himself and told him to stop, after all the Rambam explains that the
Seven Noachide Laws are still valid and applicable to all human beings throughout
the world. The moment the ENTIRE NATION refused to REBUKE Shechem, its as if
they are obligated , and should receive the punishment of death (for whoever violates one of the Noachide laws receives the death punishment). For this reason Shimon and Levi
have the 100% right to justifiably put to death all those at fault of the rape.
Now we see that everything works as planned. Also we see after the mass deaths,
the Torah explains that it was the entire nation that impurified their
sister (and not only Shechem, Bereshit 34:27).

Shabbat Shalom.
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