The wonderful war of life...bring it on

"When you go out to war against your enemies." Against whom else would anyone go to war? The Torah never wastes words, and the Tiferes Shlomo says these two extra words point to a war of a very particular kind. It also shifts how to read the old question of why Yaakov Avinu was not allowed to simply rest, and why David HaMelech in his old age was given a particular remedy. When life hits hard, most of us ask "why me?" A man jumps out of the dentist's chair in pain, and the dentist's reply says more than you would expect.