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Our chapter relates how David brought the Ark of the Covenant to his capital, Jerusalem, and how upset Michal was at his behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rabbinic Sages discuss David\u2019s dancing before the Ark and Michal\u2019s criticism in an extensive midrashic elaboration (Numbers Rabbah 4:20): David is understood to have humbled himself in order to honor God. David could have walked before the Ark dressed like a king, attired in his royal robes. But he chose to be \u201cgirt with a linen ephod\u201d in order to honor the Ark. \u201cDavid whirled with all his might before the Lord”. This means that David struck his hands against each other, clapping them and exclaiming \u201cExalted Lord!\u2018. All the women of Jerusalem looked at David from the roofs and windows and watched him dance and play and he did not care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Michal saw David not behaving like a king, she lost all respect for him. Rabbi Abba bar Kahana explained that a naked dancer is considered the lowest of the low, for none is more empty of mitzvot than him, and Michal considered David was acting like such a one when he danced not fully dressed before the Ark. <\/span><\/p>\n

Michal, the daughter of Saul, said to David: All the members of my father’s house were modest, but you uncover yourself like one of the lowest (see verse 20). David shot back: \u201cIt was before the Lord who chose me instead of your father and all his family and appointed me ruler over the Lord\u2019s people Israel! So, I will dance before the Lord \u2026 And among the slave girls of whom you speak, I will be honored\u201d (verses 21-22). Those daughters of Israel whom you call \u201cslave girls\u201d are not slave girls (\u2018amahot<\/em>), but mothers (\u2018immahot<\/em>) \u2013 I only hope to have a share with them in the world to come!\u00a0 David said: I am like an infant with his mother (see Psalms 131:1-2), who is not ashamed to be naked in the presence of his mother. Similarly, I was not ashamed to show myself before God. Indeed, no one humbled himself to honor God more than David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, from David\u2019s behavior we learn that a person may humble himself in order to honor God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: David Danced Before the Lord with All His Might<\/em>, James Tissot<\/span><\/p>\n

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