{"id":59556,"date":"2019-07-16T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=59556"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:42:35","slug":"saul-and-jonathan-the-love-of-father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/saul-and-jonathan-the-love-of-father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul And Jonathan, The Love Of Father And Son"},"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":[366,834,383,891,381,468,885],"acf":{"old_id":"59556","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56118,"related_cahpter":"264","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Despite fundamental disagreements, inseparable in life and death","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In David\u2019s stirring elegy for Saul and Jonathan, is one of the most haunting, yet ambiguous phrases concerns the eternal relationship between father and son. According to the traditional cantillation, David refers to \u201cSaul and Jonathan, beloved and cherished in life, never parted in death.\u201d Yet this reading of the phrase is strange. If father and son never parted in death, weren\u2019t they also united in life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, numerous contemporary scholars move the comma one word earlier, and read the verse as follows: \u201cSaul and Jonathan, beloved and cherished, never parted in life or in death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet this too seems difficult. Were Saul and Jonathan not bitterly divided during their lifetimes in their treatment of David? Was David not Saul\u2019s sworn enemy, and Jonathan\u2019s beloved friend? Saul sought to kill David; Jonathan saved his life. How could David himself have been blind to the chasm dividing father and son? How dare he be disingenuous while delivering his poignant eulogy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps motivated by this difficulty, some classical commentaries reinterpret this phrase. Targum Yonatan, as elaborated by R. David Kimhi, suggests that David means to say that their bond with God, not one another, was never broken. Metzudat David understands that they were beloved to the nation (again, not one another) not only in life, but also in death. Yet, as R. Kimhi acknowledges, this is not the only plausible interpretation. The simple understanding is that David and Jonathan were inseparable <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from one another<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in life and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accordingly, we might suggest that David is telling the truth after all. Despite their fierce split in their attitudes toward David, Saul and Jonathan fundamentally enjoyed an extraordinary relationship. That is obscured throughout the narrative in I Samuel, which is focused on the transition of power from Saul to David, and Saul\u2019s intense, near-irrational hatred of David. Yet, apparently, despite the fierce differences in their respective attitudes toward David, David himself was able to see beyond these differences, and recognize the existential bond between father and son. The two were literally inseparable, living together and dying in the same battle on the same day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So often in our own lives, we have strong, even fierce disagreements with those closest to us. 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