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Pharaoh finally relents \u201cGo and worship the Lord your God, who are the ones to go?\u201d Moses\u2019 responds, \u201cwith our young and our old we will go, with our sons and our daughters we will go.\u201d Pharaoh quickly takes back the offer. He simply doesn\u2019t believe them. Everyone must go for your three days festival? He, correctly, believes the Israelites will not return, that they are clearly \u201cbent on mischief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, Moses\u2019 words were not words of mischief, they were just novel and revolutionary. The worship of the Lord is not limited to a segment of the population. It is not a group of priests or prophets alone that perform the service. Each and every person is obliged and obligated to be present and participate. \u00a0The democratization of worship is a theme that will be repeated in numerous other instances in the Torah: all (men, women, the young and old\u2026) are present at Sinai, in the aftermath of Sinai \u201cAny place where my name is mentioned I will come and bless you.\u201d Towards the end of Deuteronomy, we are introduced to the monumental \u201cHakhel\u201d gathering that would occur every seven years. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe men, the women, the children and the stranger gather to hear, to learn, to revere the Lord, and to faithfully observe every word of this teaching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sadly, the idea didn\u2019t fully take hold. Whether it be the childless Hannah in the book of Samuel, an outsider viewed as a drunkard by the Prophet Eli, a woman who aspires to lead a major Jewish organization, a deaf person who has nowhere that he feels comfortable praying, or a convert who wants to sit as a judge on a conversion court, it is not only Pharaoh who refuses the democratization of Jewish worship and leadership.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly there are a series of lovely Hasidic ideas that add a layer of meaning to the words in an individual\u2019s spiritual journeys to God. When you approach God bring your youth, that is to say, your sense of wonder curiosity and excitement. Bring your old, meaning, your wisdom and experience\u2026The desire to bring your full range of emotions in the worship of God is commendable, but as Moses said the need to include all in the service of God is required.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As I read Exodus 11 in this cultural moment, from the epicenter of the #MeToo movement, everything I look at is through the lens of trauma. Through the relived trauma of nearly every woman speaking out or bearing witness today.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But I have not only been thinking of trauma; I have been thinking of spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Exodus 11, God promises that every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die if Pharaoh does not set the Israelites free. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The narrative we have inherited is one in which God delivered us from bondage in Egypt. But when we press against that narrative, we must remember that the same God who freed us<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>was the God who sent us into slavery in the first place. And when we are told that God sent the curse of the first-born son so that Pharaoh might finally let our people go, we must remember that God hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would not set us free. \u201cPharaoh will not heed you,\u201d God tells Moses, \u201cin order that My marvels may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The curse of the first-born has never sat easily with me. I cannot help but wonder how the<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Israelites, grieving the loss of their own infant sons, would have experienced \u201ca loud cry in all the land of Egypt, such as has never been or will ever be again.\u201d Did the Hebrews relive their own trauma when the Egyptians lost their children, just as women throughout the world are reliving theirs today?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The death of every first-born child in Egypt was a foregone conclusion, and it was all for show. A spectacle so that God might display power. It seems to me that we are also experiencing a historical moment in which justice only conveys the trappings of legitimacy. 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Art from the Golden Haggadah and Rylands Haggadah and an etching by Marc Chagall all depict the Jewish people's exodus from Egypt. Each artist envisions the scene slightly differently, portraying the setting, characters and what accompanies them in unique ways. The varying depictions reflect different stances on certain aspects of the original story, including the timing of the Exodus and whether the nation left armed for battle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"\"<\/p>\r\n

In Chagall's drawing, some of the figures carry sacks or bundles on their backs. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"\"<\/p>\r\n

The same is true of the Rylands Haggadah, which also features a figure carrying a bowl.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"\"<\/p>\r\n

In contrast, in the Golden Haggadah, the Israelites hold their unbaked dough in their hands. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did the nation actually hold their matzot in their hands, pack it, or carry it in bowls? Shemot 12:34 says, \u201cSo the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders.\u201d The meaning of the term \u201cmisharotam<\/em>,\u201d translated here as \u201ctheir kneading bowls,\u201d is unclear. Some suggest that it refers to the bowls in which the dough was left to rise, while others posit that it refers to the leftover matzot eaten on the previous night.<\/p>\r\n

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Adapted from: ALHATORAH.ORG<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For fuller analysis, see: <\/span>http:\/\/alhatorah.org\/The_Exodus_in_Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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The command to establish the calendar was first given to the Israelites in Egypt prior to the Exodus: \u201cThis month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you\u201d (Ex. 12:2). This was the first command given to Israel as a people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Avraham Pam explained this in the following way: the difference between a slave and a free human being does not lie in how long or hard each works. Free people often work long hours doing arduous tasks. The difference lies in who controls time. A slave works until he or she is allowed to stop. A free person decides when to begin and end. Control over time is the essential difference between slavery and freedom. Control over the calendar gave the Israelites the power to determine when the New Moon occurred, and thus when the festivals occur. They were given authority over time. The first command to the Israelites was thus an essential prelude to freedom. It said: learn how to value time and make it holy. \u201cTeach us rightly to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom\u201d (Ps. 90:20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Towards the end of his newly translated book <\/span>Catch-67<\/span><\/i>, the Israeli author and public intellectual Micah Goodman frames the dilemma of contemporary Israel in vivid and evocative terms. Meditating on the curse of powerlessness and the burden of power as the Scylla and Charybdis of Israel\u2019s troubled political waters, Goodman arrives at this memorable formulation; \u201cMoses described the fear of the power of others as a fear of returning to Egypt- but he described the fear of the corrupting nature of one\u2019s own power as a fear of turning <\/span>into <\/span><\/i>Egypt.\u201d The perennial challenge is \u201cNeither to return to Egypt, nor to turn into Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter exhibits an extraordinary self-awareness of the technologies of memory and worries over the suture between history and storytelling. Its tense is deeply hybrid and terraced, simultaneously narrating the Exodus in real-time and imagining how it will be told in the deep and unfathomable future, our past and present. Covenantal time intersects with Haggadic, Temple, and Biblical chronologies to create a matrix that reminds us, binds us, and contains us. But such alchemy is dangerous; it keeps ghosts in circulation and brings distant horizons tantalizingly close. \u201cThe land of the Philistines\u201d is the route that leads nowhere, because it is not far enough from where you\u2019ve been. The bones of Joseph don\u2019t limber up and walk themselves. They must be laboriously carried, because the past is both inevitable burden and necessary ballast. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The trick of neither <\/span>returning<\/span><\/i> to Egypt nor turning <\/span>into <\/span><\/i>Egypt is of course to <\/span>remember <\/span><\/i>Egypt, in all of its cruelty and corruption, its cucumbers rinsed with suffering and its leeks fertilized with lashes. Joseph\u2019s face streaming with tears that flooded his Nile-mascara, crying because he knew what his brothers would only come to learn; it is easy to come to Egypt, and exit can be had by way of miracles, but it is nearly impossible for Egypt to leave you. That is a riddle worthy of a Seder, or a Sphinx.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 19 of I Samuel opens with King Saul urging his son Jonathan, along with the king\u2019s courtiers, to kill David. We meet David in Chapter 16, when David\u2019s father Jesse, upon Saul\u2019s request, sends young David out to fight for his king. Saul seems to develop an immediate jealousy of David \u2013 perhaps his jealousy is a manifestation of his paranoia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jonathan\u2019s feelings for David are quite different than his father\u2019s. In the beginning of Chapter 18, we are told that, \u201cJonathan loved David as <\/span>k\u2019nafsho<\/span><\/em>, translated as \u201cJonathan loved David as himself.\u201d And here at the beginning of Chapter 19, Jonathan refuses to heed his father as \u201c[he] was very fond of David,\u201d some translations rendering it \u201c[he] much desired David.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The question is often asked if David reciprocates the feelings? If we look to II Samuel 1:26, it seems that he does. After Jonathan\u2019s death, David laments, \u201c You were most dear to me. Your love was wonderful to me, greater than the love of women.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Were they lovers? We will never know what, if anything, occurred between them physically. We do know, through the plain reading of the text, that there is no shame in or condemnation of their expressions of their love. Saul does not laugh at his son when Jonathan refuses to carry out his father\u2019s urging. God does not choose someone other than David to be king after Saul, punishing him for his \u201cunnatural\u201d love.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some people, however, are quick to say that Leviticus 18:22 could not possibly allow for Jonathan and David to have loved each other as though they were in a same-sex relationship. But Leviticus 18:22 is ambiguous at best. \u201cYou [male person] do not lay with a male in the layings of a woman.\u201d No one actually knows what this means.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems that should Jonathan and David had lived in the late 20<\/span>th<\/span> century or later, they might be the grand marshals of their local LGBT Pride parade. Coincidentally, many of those parades occurred this past weekend and many more will happen next weekend, as LGBT Pride is typically celebrated at the end of June.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A quick word about Jonathan\u2019s love for David <\/span>k\u2019nafsho<\/span><\/i>, in Chapter 18. My last name is Nafshi. My same-sex partner and I took this last name when we wed 17 years ago. We took it from <\/span>Shir Hashirim <\/span><\/i>3:4, <\/span>mat-tzati et she-ahavah nafshi<\/span><\/i>, \u201cI have found the one whom my soul loves\u201d or \u201cI have found my soul mate.\u201d I believe that Jonathan would have called David his soul mate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A weird episode, confusing on multiple levels, ends today\u2019s chapter. David, on the run from Saul, takes refuge with Samuel at Ramah. Saul sends three bands of soldiers to kill David, and each is diverted from their mission when a \u201cspirit of God\u201d comes over them causing them to prophesy. Finally, Saul who has obtusely failed to learn from what happened to his soldiers, comes after David himself. The prophetic spirit of God seizes Saul too, making him \u201cstrip off his clothes\u2026 and lie naked all that day and night.\u201d This, concludes the narrator, is why people say, \u201cis Saul too among the prophets?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, regular 929 readers will recall that less than two weeks ago, we read a rather different origin story for this popular proverb. In chapter 10, when Samuel has just anointed Saul king, Saul encounters a band of prophets playing music, and an ecstatic spirit of God comes over him. Seeing this, people say, \u201cwhat\u2019s happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul too among the prophets?\u201d (10:11) This, the narrator says as an aside, is where the proverb comes from.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, we have two different stories that both purport to be the origin of the expression \u201cis Saul too among the prophets?\u201d Which is the real source?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The <\/span>Da\u2019at Mikra<\/span><\/i> commentary points out the sharp difference in tone and resonance between the two cases. At the outset of Saul\u2019s career, people expressed astonishment that an obscure young man with no previously noticed aptitude or preparation for prophecy should receive the spirit of God. This was a portent of a great future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In today\u2019s chapter, on the other hand, \u201cis Saul also among the prophets?\u201d is an utterance of surprise that the king of Israel should behave like one of Samuel\u2019s neophyte followers, leading him to act in such a degraded way. Now in Saul\u2019s decline, the proverb expresses wonder at how low the king has fallen as he struggles with the divine spirit that is on the point of leaving him for ever.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Amnon Bazak points out that after this episode, we hear no more of the \u201cevil spirit\u201d that has filled Saul for the past three chapters. No longer possessed by spirits good or evil, he becomes an ordinary mortal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The two events where Saul prophesies bracket his promising rise and ignominious fall. Together, they represent his struggle and ultimate failure to receive, hold and domesticate the divine spirit. They are bookends of one story.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this sense, both episodes are origins of \u201cIs Saul too among the prophets?\u201d Taken together they express the tragic incongruity of Saul\u2019s career, as an unknown donkey herd unprepared and unable to handle the greatness that was thrust upon 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The daily chapter describes an event that occurred on the day before the new moon, at the beginning of the new month (<\/span>Machar Rosh Chodesh<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I understand Rosh Chodesh to mean a kind of a beginning, a new chapter, and above all, an opportunity to reroute, fine tune, and reorganize.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Do we take advantage of this opportunity?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Even Shoshan Hebrew dictionary lists two key meanings under the entry \"tomorrow\" (<\/span>machar<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. \u00a0 <\/span>Tomorrow in the literal sense \u2013 the following day, one day on. (\"Tomorrow<\/span> is a rest day, a holy Sabbath to the Lord\" Ex. 16:23)<\/span>.<\/b><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. \u00a0 <\/span>Tomorrow meaning in the near or distant future (\"<\/span>If your son asks you in time to come\" Deut. 6:20).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Our attitude to the concept of \"tomorrow\" is mixed.\u00a0 Sometimes we consider it to be exact and binding, and at other times, as a general promise or hope for the future (\"No problem, I'll take care of it tomorrow\" or ma\u00f1ana).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Reading this chapter teaches us to incorporate both aspects of \"tomorrow\" when looking ahead.\u00a0 This idea is based on the understanding that a single day is not an independent entity, but rather an act or event that we do or experience tomorrow (in the literal sense) but which contain the seeds of the near or distant future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The tension between Saul and David, and the secret code that Jonathan devised to let David know what the immediate (tomorrow) and distant future holds was not intended for David alone, but also for future generations. \"<\/span>Behold, the arrows are beyond you\". These words were not only intended for that specific occasion but also, I believe, he was also \"prophesizing\" <\/span>future events about a split in the kingdom of Israel and tribal divisions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Thinking about the concept of \"tomorrow\" and the phrase <\/span>Machar Rosh Chodesh<\/span><\/i> makes me wonder if the Scripture is trying to teach us to view every single tomorrow as if it were a new beginning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When Saul celebrated the new month, \"all those who eat at the king's table came on the festive day to the table and no one was absent\" (Rashi: I Sam. 20:18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the beginning of each month, everyone has to be present before the king. This is a day without any excuses for absence - a day of introspection and for coming before Him with all the seriousness that such an event demands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Taking this idea further, we are given this opportunity, and indeed responsibility, every single day to ask ourselves where we are standing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To plan and execute a meaningful tomorrow, both for the day itself, and a tomorrow which has the potential to develop and (positively) influence the future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If we understand the dual concept of tomorrow, how will we understand the concept of today?
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    \r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    David and Jonathan are deeply in love. Except that David knows that Jonathan's father, King Saul, is not happy about Jonathan's relationship with David, who he sees as a threat to his reign.\u00a0 David sends Jonathan to the monthly meal at the palace to discern if Saul really wants to kill David, and heartbreak ensues. Saul calls Jonathan an \u201cembarrassment\u201d; the \u201cson of a perverse, rebellious woman\u201d (20:30). Jonathan bids a final farewell to David, save one more brief encounter they have in Chapter 23.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As much as Jonathan loved David, perhaps the real tragedy is that David never fully reciprocated that love in Jonathan\u2019s lifetime. David\u2019s destiny to become King of Israel came first. David did not invite Jonathan to come along with him when he runs away from Saul, going on to have his own adventures in life, leaving Jonathan behind. Ironically, David\u2019s success comes at Jonathan\u2019s expense. Jonathan is heir apparent to the throne and David\u2019s royal ambitions directly threaten Jonathan\u2019s position, a fact which Saul warns Jonathan about (20:31). But Jonathan does not care, as Ethics of the Fathers Chapter 5 asserts: \u201cWhat is love that is dependent on nothing and will always endure? That is the love between David and Jonathan.\u201d Jonathan sacrifices everything for the sake of seeing David succeed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This chapter is in many ways a harbinger of Jonathan\u2019s ultimate fate, as he sticks with his father and is soon killed in war. Jonathan\u2019s ultimate demise feels sealed by the end of Chapter 20, if not yet physically, at least emotionally. David goes on to be king but is traumatized by Jonathan\u2019s death, and it is quite telling that David subsequently struggles to have appropriate relationships with women.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    For many in the queer community this story is all too familiar. Boy meets boy. One of them is unable to fully actualize their relationship, courting various women and leaving behind his beloved for the sake of his career. The other, who perhaps had a brighter future laid out for him, is rejected by his father and sacrifices his beloved and ultimately his life for the sake of a love he knows will never be fully actualized.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But Saul was wrong. It was never David that was a threat to Jonathan\u2019s future, it was Saul\u2019s inability to accept that his son had found favor in David\u2019s eyes (20:3) that caused this whole tragedy. This story did not have to end in tragedy. Society was not ready for David and Jonathan, arguably why their love is conceived of by the sages as the ultimate love. I pray that families and communities have learned the lessons of the consequences of Saul\u2019s rejection.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    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>\r\n

    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>\r\n

    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 (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) -- for it was on Shabbat that David fleeing from Saul came to Nob. This Midrashic tradition is in line with the general principle of pikuach nefesh<\/em> \u2013 that the \u201cpreservation of human life\u201d overrides most commandments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The phrase civil disobedience is widely associated with larger-than-life historical personalities, from Henry David\u2019s Thoreau\u2019s eponymous 1848 essay, to Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s protests on behalf of Indian independence, to Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2019s work on behalf of civil rights.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Yet thousands of years prior to these and countless other examples, our chapter features perhaps the earliest recorded instance of conscientious objection in the West. Contrary to the king\u2019s orders, Saul\u2019s soldiers refuse to kill the residents of priestly city of Nob, whose only crime was to feed David and his band of men. They insist: \u201cThe king\u2019s servants would not raise a hand to strike down the priests of the Lord\u201d (v. 17). Only Doeg, the king\u2019s faithful servant, faithfully follows the king\u2019s decree: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And Doeg the Edomite went and struck down the priests himself; that day, he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. He put Nob, the town of the priests, to the sword: men and women, children and infants, oxen, asses, and sheep\u2014[all] to the sword (v. 18-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Given that the second half of I Samuel repeatedly underscores Saul\u2019s shortcomings, the clear implication of the text is that the priests were not deserving of death, and that the soldiers were right to disobey orders. In the words of the classical commentator Rashi, citing the rabbis in the Midrash, \u201c<\/span>One may think that [the command to follow a king\u2019s orders] means even to commit a sin; scripture therefore states \u2018Only,\u2019 [to exclude this case].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Of course, no two cases of civil disobedience are alike; many present a complex moral calculus, and allow no easy answers. Yet, at least in this early example, the prophetic position is clear: knowing that they might be killed for disobeying the king\u2019s orders, the men were right to nonetheless disobey Saul\u2019s orders. The book of Samuel, then, posits a legitimate, if limited, model for civil disobedience thousands of years before Thoreau published his classic essay.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The biblical text echoes throughout the ages and demands that we ask ourselves: Imagine that we were soldiers in Saul\u2019s army. Would we have stood up bravely for our convictions? 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    In our comments on the previous chapter, we noted that the fleeting reference to the unnoticed presence of Doeg the Edomite, Saul\u2019s head herdsman, when Ahimelech assisted David in his flight from Saul, foreshadows the events portrayed in this chapter. It was Doeg who \u201cblew the whistle\u201d on the priests of Nob, stirring Saul to call for their deaths. Two unanticipated, perhaps even counterintuitive, details stand out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    First is that Saul\u2019s officers refused to participate in wiping out the city of priests. \u201cBut the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord\u201d (17).\u00a0 Indeed, the Talmud identifies these officers as Abner ben Ner, the chief of staff, and Amasa ben Yeter, another ranking officer, and states that their refusal stemmed from a legal deliberation that led them to conclude that the order was illegal and had to be defied* (See Rashi ad loc.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Abner, who remained loyal to Saul, would eventually kill Amasa, whose loyalty shifted to David (see 2 Samuel 2:19 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Second is the description of the manner in which Doeg implemented Saul\u2019s order: \u201cBoth men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep [were put to death] with the edge of the sword\u201d (19). This is surprising, even frightening, in its tone and detail, the more so when compared with the instructions Samuel issued to Saul to annihilate Amalek: \u201cBut slay both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys\u201d (15:3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The irony that Saul had failed to implement those earlier instructions (see chapter 15) was not lost on the Sages, who declared that \u201cNob did not deserve to be treated like Amalek\u201d (Qohelet Rabba 7:16).**<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    *See Moshe Sokolow: \u201cDisobedience to Military Orders,\u201d <\/span>Conversations<\/span> 15 (2013), 144-153.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    **Moshe Sokolow: \u201cAutonomy vs. Heteronomy in Moral Reasoning,\u201d <\/span>Hazon Nahum<\/span> (1997), 659-668.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":58673,"alt":"","title":"isam22-broken rifle","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","width":1920,"height":1132,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-300x177.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":177,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-768x453.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":453,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-1024x604.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":604,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":906,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1132,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-1200x708.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-712x420.png","home_baner-width":712,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Murder At Nob","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And the first conscientious objection \u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":58673,"alt":"","title":"isam22-broken rifle","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","width":1920,"height":1132,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-300x177.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":177,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-768x453.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":453,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-1024x604.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":604,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":906,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1132,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-1200x708.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":708,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam22-broken-rifle-712x420.png","home_baner-width":712,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Samuel","chapter":"22","chapter_main_number":"254","date":"20260819","wall_id":"254"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"641","name":"Amalek","old_id":"1041"},{"term_id":"762","name":"Murder","old_id":"1162"}]},{"order":13,"id":"58723","color":"#e8ecf6","size":"1","name":"Common Sense ","post_title":"Common Sense","slug":"common-sense","old_id":"58723","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":58720,"post_title":"Thomas Paine","slug":"thomas-paine","old_id":"58720","first_name":"Thomas ","last_name":"Paine","description":"Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. 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    The Jews came to Samuel, saying, <\/span>\"<\/span><\/i>make us a king to judge us like all the other nations<\/span><\/em>\"<\/span> [I Sam. 8:5]<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    And here we cannot but observe that their motives were bad, viz. that they might be <\/span>like<\/em> <\/span>unto other nations, i.e. the Heathens, whereas their true glory laid in being as much <\/span>unlike<\/em> <\/span>them as possible. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But the thing displeased Samuel\u2026 and the Lord said unto Samuel\u2026they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>that i should not reign over them<\/b>\u2026<\/span>Now therefore\u2026shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them<\/em> <\/span>[I Sam. 8:6-9]<\/span>,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    i.e. not of any particular king, but the general manner of the kings of the earth, whom Israel was so eagerly copying after.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And notwithstanding the great distance of time and difference of manners, the character is still in fashion. Samuel said: <\/span>he will take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen <\/span><\/i>(this description agrees with the present mode of impressing men), <\/span>and he \u2026will set them to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots; and he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks and to be bakers <\/span><\/i>(this describes the expense and luxury as well as the oppression of kings) <\/span>and he will take your fields and your olive yards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants; and he will take the tenth of your feed, and of your vineyards, and give them to his officers and to his servants <\/span><\/i>(by which we see that bribery, corruption, and favoritism are the standing vices of kings) <\/span>and\u2026ye shall be his servants, and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen, <\/span><\/i>and the lord will not hear you in that day <\/b>[I Sam. 8:10-18].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This accounts for the continuation of monarchy; neither do the characters of the few good kings which have lived since, either sanctify the title, or blot out the sinfulness of the origin; the high encomium given of David takes no notice of him <\/span>officially as a king, <\/span><\/i>but only as a <\/span>man <\/span><\/i>after God\u2019s own heart<\/span>. Nevertheless the People refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles <\/span><\/i>[I Sam. 8:19-20]<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    Samuel continued to reason with them, but to no purpose; <\/span>So Samuel called unto the Lord\u2026 And all the people said unto<\/span><\/i> Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not, for <\/span><\/i>we have added unto our sins this evil, to ask a king <\/b>[I Sam. 12:17-19]. These portions of scripture are direct and positive. They admit of no equivocal construction. That the Almighty hath here entered his protest against monarchical government is true, or the scripture is false.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Excerpted from <\/span>Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States: A Sourcebook<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> edited by Meir Y. Soloveichik, Matthew Holbreich, Jonathan Silver Stuart W. Halpern, Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, The Toby Press, 2019. 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    The Sages characterized the relationship between Jonathan and David as \u201clove that is not contingent on another end\u201d (<\/span>Ethics of the Fathers<\/span><\/i> 5:15), and therefore a model of a relationship that will endure. Certainly, the loyalty the two protagonists show toward one another is extraordinary in the annals of biblical history. But what precisely drove the Rabbis to utilize this precise formulation of love that is not contingent on another end?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The answer seems clear. David and <\/span>Jonathan <\/span>were the leading candidates to take the throne after Saul, <\/span>Jonathan<\/span>\u2019s father. Their relationship called for rivalry, not intimate friendship. Consider such a scenario today. Can anyone imagine two leading political rivals, in America, Israel, or otherwise, prioritizing friendship and humanity over personal political gain? In our cynical age, even when rivals collaborate, it is generally for the sake of mutual political or economic expediency. Yet David and <\/span>Jonathan<\/span>, despite their entanglements and the enormously high stakes, prized their personal relationship above and beyond that of personal gain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rabbi Shimon ben Tzemach Duran (Spain, North Africa 14th-15th century), in his commentary to <\/span>Ethics of the Fathers<\/span><\/i>, put it this way: \u201cAnyone who establishes a friendship for access to power, money, or sexual relations; when these ends are not attainable, the friendship ceases\u2026love that is not dependent on selfish ends is true love of the other person since there is no intended end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Throughout Jewish history, such relationships have often been idealized in different terms. For the famed German philosopher and Bible scholar Martin Buber, it was the distinction between an I-it relationship and I-thou. For the great Talmudist-philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, it was the difference between the utilitarian relationships forged by Adam I, the Adam of the first chapter in Genesis, and the intimate, vulnerable bonds formed by Adam II. Yet, then and now, particularly in the political and public sphere, such idyllic relationships are most often maintained in the breach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Looking toward the public sphere today, we might come away with the impression that such deep-seated, non-utilitarian relationships are all-but-impossible to achieve in the \u201creal world.\u201d Yet David and <\/span>Jonathan<\/span> offer a radical, alternative model. 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