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אוה''ח א כי תצא למלחמה- talking about the biggest war, מלחמת היצר. You are going out to fight, but you don’t have to be afraid because ה' is going out to fight with you. Proof: "המעלך מארץ מצרים"- He took you out from the מ''ט שערי טומאה. Don’t be afraid. It is true that by yourself you wouldn’t be able to fight, but ה' is helping you.

רש''י ג שמע ישראל- if the only זכות you have is that you say שמע, you are worthy of being saved.

רמב''ן ד-ה Your attitude shouldn’t be “I’m strong!”. It should be that you are going out to fight with ה'. You should have בטחון that He is going to save you. ה' is going to make that they are all going to die in order to save you. There won’t be one casualty among כ''י. By מלחמת עי, they knew there was something wrong because people died.

רש''י ח ההירא ורך הלבב- ר' עקיבא- they’re not able to stand by the war and see a sword. ר' יוסי- someone who is afraid of the עבירות he has on his hands.

רמב''ן ח Someone who’s afraid after the כהן’s הבטחה, he’s lacking בטחון and isn’t ראוי that a נס should happen to him. רך לבב- faint of heart.

אוה''ח מי האיש הירא- someone who doesn’t think that he has עבירות, but is still afraid, his פחד tells him that he has an עבירה.

רש''י יח למען אשר לא ילמדו- if they do תשובה, you can accept them.

ספורנו יט You may want to hurt the other side as bad as possible, but you have הבטחה, you are going win, so don’t do it.