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In our Chapter, at the beginning of Second Samuel, after hearing of the death of Saul and his three sons , David intones a dirge for Saul and his son Jonathan, who was David\u2019s loyal friend (1:17-27).<\/span><\/p>\n

Toward the end of this poetic lament, David calls out to \u201cthe Daughters of Israel: \u2018Weep over Saul, who clothed you in crimson and finery, who decked your robes with jewels of gold\u2019\u201d (1:24).<\/span><\/p>\n

In elaborating on this verse, the Mishnah (Nedarim 9:10) relates a story about Rabbi Yishmael who \u201cbeautified\u201d a disfigured woman in order to facilitate her marriage. According to the elaboration of this mishnah in the Talmud Bavli (Nedarim 66b), Rabbi Yishmael replaced her apparently unsightly false tooth with one he fashioned for her from his own supply of gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhereupon, Rabbi Yishmael is said to have wept, saying: \u2018The Daughters of Israel are beautiful, but it is poverty which disfigures them.\u2019 And so, when Rabbi Yishmael died the Daughters of Israel raised a lament saying: \u2018Daughters of Israel weep over Rabbi Yishmael!\u2019 As it is said regarding Saul: \u201cDaughters of Israel: \u2018Weep over Saul, who clothed you in crimson and finery, who decked your robes with jewels of gold.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Talmud Yerushalmi (Nedarim 9:11) goes on to preserve a Rabbinic discussion on this verse: \u201cRabbi Nehemiah suggested that \u201cBenot Yisrael\u201d (Daughters of Israel) might be read as \u201cBanayot she-be-Yisrael\u201d (\u201cBuilders\u201d of Israel, i.e. scholars, see Bavli Shabbat 114a and Yerushalmi Berakhot 9:1) these are the Sanhedrins (\u201cSanhedriot\u201d) of Israel. When King Saul would see a group of scholars, he would give them food and drink. And what is meant by \u201cwho decked your robes with jewels of gold\u201d? When King Saul would hear the biblical basis for a Halakah from the mouth of a Sage, he would praise him [according to Midrash Shmuel 25:1 — Saul \u201cwould stand and kiss him on his mouth!\u201d]. But Rabbi Yehudah says that Benot Yisrael really does refer to the Daughters of Israel, for when their husbands would go out to war, King Saul would feed them and support them and clothe them in crimson and finery. And from the continuation of the verse: \u2018who decked your robes with jewels of gold,\u2019 we learn that a jewel is only suitable when worn on a well-dressed body.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Saul\u2019s sartorial generosity to the Daughters of Israel may also be the biblical basis of the Halakhic stipulation that, in order to rejoice on festivals with his household, a man must buy his wife clothes and jewelry according to his financial ability (Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim 529:2).<\/span><\/p>\n

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