{"id":58438,"date":"2019-06-27T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=58438"},"modified":"2023-01-22T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T10:00:37","slug":"naked-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/naked-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[506,885],"acf":{"old_id":"58438","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"251","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Is Saul too A prophet?","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Samuel dispatched Saul home after their initial encounter, one of the signs he gave him to affirm his selection as king was that he would meet a cohort of prophets and would join them in prophesying (10:5-6). When it actually came to pass (10:10 ff.), it was so striking that an adage (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mashal<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) was coined: \u201cIs Saul, too, a prophet?\u201d (10:12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this chapter, that refrain is repeated. After Michal, Saul\u2019s daughter and David\u2019s wife, aided and abetted David\u2019s escape, Saul sent his agents to arrest him. When two groups of agents succumbed to the charms of a cohort of prophets led by Samuel himself, Saul decided to take matters into his own hands and he set out after David as well. He, too, encountered this cohort of prophets and he, too, joined in their prophesying (23). This time, however, there was a significant departure from precedent:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say: \u201cIs Saul also among the prophets?\u201d (24)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The inappropriateness of this behavior was not lost on most of the medieval exegetes who interpreted \u201chis clothes\u201d to be, specifically, his royal garb, which he removed in order to appear no differently from the other prophets. As Rashi wrote: \u201cHe removed his royal garments, to put on a disciple\u2019s garments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radak, however, appreciating that the addition of the word \u201calso\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gam<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) implied that the other prophets had removed their clothes as well, explained the strange activity as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When prophecy overcomes a person, his senses are nullified and he falls down, as it states of Balaam: \u201cHe fell down with his eyes open\u201d (Numbers 24:4, 16) and of Daniel: \u201cI was sound asleep, prostrate, with my face in the ground\u201d (10:9). Frequently, it also occurred that he would remove his clothes on account of the nullification of his senses and his conscious thoughts, remaining on an exclusively rational plane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, since prophecy\u2014according to Maimonides and his followers, including Radak\u2014is the perfection of the intellect, a prophetic state is one in which ordinary, corporeal, sensations, such as the need to be clothed, are overridden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Saul Among The Prophets, by a follower of (James) Jacques-Joseph Tissot, French, 1836-1902 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":58439,"id":58439,"title":"isam19-saul 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