I so appreciate these lesson of my Jewish Heritage. And so the implications for your own behavior are? Thanks for publishing this just now chabad.Ī G-d who 'hears, sees, and answers' Toda Rabba. Hope you won't mind me adding what the Talmud says that 'whoever says that King David sinned, is mistaken' - for 'all who were sent to the battlefield, wrote a bill of divorce to their wives', and mystically there is much more to the story, that meets the eye. The word that should be used is not, 'David was emotional', but 'David was passionate. There is something about inner struggle with the heart that brings a person closer to God, bc they come to understand the movements of the heart, sometimes subtle, and they come to wisdom about the conflict of heart, and the motives and intentions of heart, and the hidden depths of heart. God said of him, 'this is a man after my own heart. Thus, wherever his heart went, he took responsibility for it and struggled with it, and came to understanding and wisdom of heart. His heart was always given, whether for good or ill. He's supposed to be at least years older. A fine article and a fine illustration! How come Nathan is a prominent prophet in the time of the two great kings while being alive between to ? He then enlisted Nathan, Tzadok the high priest, Benayahu ben Yehoyada the chief commander of the military to train Solomon in various fields, and an entire corps of guardians to provide physical protection for Solomon. When his mother, Bathsheba, protested saying that she feared that he would be slain by his older brothers such as Abashalom, Adoniyahu and Amnon, David swore that he would ensure his ascent to the throne. After Solomon was born, Nathan had informed David that Solomon would reign, which prompted David to seek qualified teachers to prepare Solomon for the position.

See Radak, II Shmuel, who explains that Bathsheba initially refused to bear another child with king David, fearing that he would be taunted for his being of tainted lineage. Much like the prohibition against using metal instruments to carve the stones of the altar in the Temple Metzudat David, I Chronicles I have caused the death of your clan.

Iddo the prophet pdf