{"id":60323,"date":"2019-07-30T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60323"},"modified":"2023-02-21T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:50:00","slug":"whoever-says-david-sinned-is-mistaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/whoever-says-david-sinned-is-mistaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoever Says David Sinned is Mistaken"},"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":[911,366,834,400],"acf":{"old_id":"60323","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"274","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But stay tuned for tomorrow's post, where we will claim the opposite...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preface: I once attended a conference on teaching Tanakh at Bar Ilan University. The subject of David and Bathsheba came up, and before the moderator could even call on her, Nehama Leibowitz was on her feet, from the audience, proclaiming: \u201cIt is prohibited to teach chapter 11, without teaching chapter 12.\u201d In deference to Nehama, I recommend reading my observations on this chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/275\/post\/60345\">in conjunction with tomorrow\u2019s post: \u201cYou are the Man\u2026 I have Sinned against the Lord<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the one hand, the Talmud reports the opinion of R. Shmuel bar Nahmani in the name of R. Yonatan: \u201cWhoever says that David sinned is mistaken\u201d (Shabbat 56a). On the other hand, we have the evidence of the text, which records his tryst with Bathsheba, a married woman, and his complicity in the death of her husband, Uriah, at the hands of the Ammonites. The rabbis deflected the challenge of these verses, claiming that they imply only an intent to sin, without the actual commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Full disclosure<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Talmud acknowledges that the impulse to exonerate David came primarily from Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi who was descended from David and who manipulated the text (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mehapekh vedaresh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) to absolve him of two capital crimes\u2014adultery and murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woven together, the tapestry of the rabbinic version of the episode reads as follows. David was practicing archery when one of his arrows went astray and knocked over the screen behind which Bathsheba was bathing. Overcome by her beauty, and somehow recognizing her as the intended mother of the son who was to succeed him, he instructed Joab to put her husband, Uriah, in jeopardy, so as to leave his ultimate fate, as it were, to God. As to the charge of adultery, they maintained that \u201cwhosoever went to war in David\u2019s army gave his wife a conditional divorce\u201d so that in case a soldier died, his wife was released retroactively. Therefore, Uriah\u2019s eventual death made Bathsheba a single woman even at the time she dallied with David. (They found an absolution from the murder charge, too, but we plan to confront that when we get to 1 Kings 2.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to the talmudic attempt to exonerate David, we have the self-evident testimony of Scripture that David, confronted by the parable of Nathan the Prophet (12:1-4), admitted his guilt (12:13), and accepted its consequences, which included the death of the infant son born of that union\u2014although Solomon, a subsequent child by Bathsheba, does succeed him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more on that &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/275\/post\/60345\">see tomorrow\u2019s 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