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Please forgive, for I'm a total noob when it comes to Buddhism. I've heard that some Buddhists (Zen?) use the phrase "If you see the Buddha, kill him", and that it means that you haven't realised that you are the Buddha, because all is one (monism). Is this right? And if it is, what about...

Could someone unpack the concept of herem (devotion to destruction) found in Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua? Was it something that was literally carried out, with the slaughtering of Canaanite women and children, or is it meant in a more metaphorical sense of "giving everything to Yahweh", or...