"The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you, to be beaten before you; they will come out against you in one direction, but they will flee from you in seven directions." (Devarim 28:7)
"The Torah's ways are pleasant ways and all its paths are peace." (1) Therefore even the defeat of the enemies of the Jewish people need not lead to the annihilation of those foes. Instead, they will flee from the Jewish people but continue to live, thereby enabling them to make peace with the Jewish people and ultimately conduct themselves according to G-ds desires, observing the Seven Universal Laws Commanded to Noach and his descendants." (2)
Lubavitcher Rebbe
Likutei Sichos, Vol. 29, p. 307 in The Divine Prism, p. 210.
(1) Proverbs 3:17
(2) Mishneh Torah Hilchos Melachim 9:1
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