{"id":58576,"date":"2019-07-01T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=58576"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:16:00","slug":"david-at-nob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/david-at-nob\/","title":{"rendered":"David At Nob"},"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":[834,662,363],"acf":{"old_id":"58576","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"253","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"In saving his own life, he serves as an example for all time","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our chapter continues the extensive narrative of how David fled from Saul. After having fled first to Naiot in Ramah (19:18-24), and then to a place in the South identified as \u201cthe Ezel Stone\u201d (20:19, 41), David now flees to Nob (21:1-10). There he goes to the sanctuary and its high priest, Ahimelech, the great-grandson of Eli, the high priest of Shiloh. Ahimelech is surprised that David, a well-known military leader, has come alone without any accompanying soldiers. David explains this by falsely saying: \u201cThe king sent me on a mission and said to me, \u2018No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on\u2019. As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place\u201d (21:3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When David asks for food, Ahimelech tells him there is only consecrated bread, which can be eaten by David and his men only if they have \u201ckept themselves from women\u201d. David assures Ahimelech that this is indeed the case. The high priest of Nob then gives David five loaves of consecrated bread, \u201csince there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away\u201d (3-6). To understand this passage, it is helpful to note that according to Leviticus 24:5-9, in a sanctuary, twelve loaves were set out on the \u201cbefore the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath\u2026 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord\u201d. So, it seems that the five loaves given to David in Nob were what was still left of the previous week\u2019s consecrated bread, that should have been eaten only by priests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Midrash (\u201cYelammedenu\u201d cited in Yalkut Shimoni, Shmuel 130) understands that David received bread that, to his great surprise, was being baked in the sanctuary at Nob on Shabbat (see Menahot 95b) when he arrived. David\u2019s arrival in Nob on Shabbat would normally have been considered a violation of the general prohibition not to travel on a sacred day on which work is forbidden. But in fact it becomes the prooftext for the exception that is granted to save a life (<em>pikuach nefesh<\/em>). In Numbers Rabbah (23:1), the rule is given that fleeing from mortal danger is permitted on Shabbat (see Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 2:5) &#8212; for it was on Shabbat that David fleeing from Saul came to Nob. This Midrashic tradition is in line with the general principle of <em>pikuach nefesh<\/em> \u2013 that the \u201cpreservation of human life\u201d overrides most commandments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Josef A. 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