One of the most tragic and perplexing stories in the entire Tanach takes place in Parshas Vayishlach, Genesis 34, with the abduction and rape of Jacob’s only daughter Dinah.
The outcome of their taking the land by conquest is as clear as day: their descendants will get no land at all, no tribal territory. Conquest is not the way to take the land. That is the p’shat, the ...