Keyboard warriors of Psalms

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In Psalms 144, King David extols HY for teaching his hands to wage war and his fingers to battle.

לְדָוִ֨ד | בָּ֘ר֤וּךְ יְ-הוָ֨ה | צוּרִ֗י הַֽמְלַמֵּ֣ד יָדַ֣י לַקְרָ֑ב אֶ֝צְבְּעוֹתַ֗י לַמִּלְחָמָֽה

For hands the word he used for war (which some say is an Aramaic origin) "krav" - (recognized today by - krav maga), krav also means to get close to. For fingers he used a different word, this suggests that the war with the fingers is from further away. What was the significance of warring with the fingers, when in those days war demanding great physical might, fingers didn't really play a role in their own right.

There is an idiom that the pen in mightier than the sword, but usually we don't associate writing specifically to the fingers.

Kabalistically, we can say that the righteous warred like HY, as we find that HY gave the Egyptians the finger, by the plague of lice (Exodus 8:15). 

It is reasonable to explain that David was referring to future battles, as we find many references in Psalms to future times, which were said with Divine Inspiration. Hence we can interpret these skills of war of the fingers, to triggers - which just take one finger, or two ... keyboard warriors. Both these applications are fought from a further distance than typical war scenarios of early times, and are thus fitting for the descriptive word of war pointed out above.

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