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Voluntary war (Hebrew: מלחמת הרשות‎; milḥemet ha-reshūt), sometimes called a discretionary war, optional war, a non-obligatory war, or a war of free choice, is a technical term found in Hebrew classical literature and denoting a war that is waged of free choice by Israel, only at such a time when the people of Israel are settled in their ancestral homeland.^[1][2] Such a war is to be distinguished from a mandatory war, in that a voluntary war is not fought for national survival, but rather for personal ambitions of the country's ruler. This might include personal enmity with another state, or a desire to show the country's military prowess as a means to deter potential aggressors, or to expand the territorial domain of the country. Such a war cannot be waged without either the command of a king, or the approbation of the Great Sanhedrin, consisting of no less than seventy-one judges.^[3] A voluntary war is also to be distinguished from a religious war, insofar that a religious war concerns the conquest of the land of Canaan by Joshua.

A voluntary war is bound by certain legal restraints and restrictions (

In a voluntary war, not all able-bodied men are conscripted to fight, as there are certain exemptions outlined explicitly in the Torah, namely:

1. 'the one who built a house and did not dwell in it a year’s time'^[9][8]
2. he that 'planted a vineyard and did not partake of its fruit'
3. the one who has 'betrothed a wife and has yet to perform his marital duty' on her^[9]
4. the one who is 'fearful and soft-hearted'.
5. the one whose conscience bothers him because of having committed certain sins