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After conquering his capital city, David now turns his attention to the Ark of the covenant. Since the Philistines returned the Ark on two wandering cattle, it had been situated in the house of Obed-Edom. The procession is festive with musical instruments and dancing. Along the way, however, the Ark slips, and Uzzah reaches out to protect it. God is angry that Uzzah thought the Ark needed protection from man. Uzzah died on the spot. David stops the procession for a period of time following the tragic death, but then continues the procession up to the City of David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the people gather around in the procession playing music, David dances and gyrates in front of the Ark wearing an ephod. As the procession passed David\u2019s palace, Michal, his wife, looked out the window \u201cand saw King David leaping and whirling before the LORD; and she despised him for it\u201d (verse 16). Later, when David returns home, Michal expresses the source of her displeasure: \u201cDidn\u2019t the king of Israel do himself honor today\u2014exposing himself today in the sight of the slavegirls of his subjects, as one of the riffraff might expose himself\u201d (verse 20). David is furious with her response and raises the temperature by attacking Michal\u2019s father Saul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Was Michal right to criticize David? Michal\u2019s point is that the king needs to have some level of dignity, no matter the circumstance. Her concern could be read as an elitist response focusing only on the high status that a king should have. But this is out of character for Michal. She does not act like a highborn snobby person anywhere else in the text.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Furthermore, \u201crespect for the king\u201d seems to be what David himself espoused while on the run from Saul. Twice he had the chance to kill Saul but instead chose not to. Each time he ordered his guards not to kill the anointed of God. Similarly, he killed the Amalekite and Ish Boshet\u2019s guards for disrespecting the office of the king even when they killed his sworn enemy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the text gives a hint as to Michal\u2019s motivation in verse 16. The text makes the point to add that Michal looked out the window. The last time David and Michal were together with a window was back in I Samuel 19. Saul sends officers to kill David, and Michal lowers David out the window to safety. The two do not meet again until after Saul dies. Michal saw firsthand what happens when a king debases his position by acting irrationally. She had to lower her husband out the window to save him from her raving father. Now, looking out a window again, she fears she sees her husband forgetting the lessons of Saul. Unfortunately, David does not understand, and instead impulsively curses her. 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King David had guts!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"As the Ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the LORD; and she despised him for it.\" (II Samuel, 6:16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The king of Israel is deeply involved in a spiritual dance, full of love for his Creator, and he sees nothing else but Him. Michal, Saul's daughter observes David who is drawn into his inner self, shedding his barriers and outward layers, and all she sees is a king making a fool of himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He is inside and she is a complete outsider. She is not the only one, sometimes we also are an outsider like Michal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I learn three lessons from King David's behavior:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. To appreciate and be happy with the all the good you have at this very moment.\u00a0 In his book Midnight Muse<\/em> (1998), Rev. Crystal Boyd writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    \"We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby,\u2026when we retire\u2026<\/span>So, stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you get married, until your kids leave home\u2026\u00a0 until summer, until fall, until winter, until spring or until you die\u2026 to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy. <\/span>Happiness is a journey, not a destination.\u00a0 Work as if you don't need the money, love as if you have never been hurt and dance as if no one is looking at you.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. To make the most of the present.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      \"This is the day that the Lord made; we shall exult and rejoice thereon\" (Ps. 118:<\/span>24)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Today is <\/span>the <\/b>day.\u00a0 Let's utilize it to its fullest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      1. To learn how to ignore internal and external criticism<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

        In our chapter, Michal represents the superego, which is the mechanism in our psyche that, according to Freud, incorporates social morals and acts to tame our impulses and leads to controlled and \"normative\" functioning. King David is teaching us to be wary of being a slave to social norms and to \"what will other people say\".\u00a0 He chose a different option \u2013 in front of everyone he chose to give himself over fully to his natural impulse of worshipping God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        You are the king! How can you allow yourself to be humiliated in the sight of the<\/span> handmaids <\/b>of his servants? Michal mocks David and fails to understand a great secret.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        \"So to her dying day Michal daughter of Saul had no children.\" (ibid. v.23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        To be a servant of God requires a certain \"madness\". We learn that this madness is also a prerequisite for bringing up children.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Translated by Chava Wilschanski<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        Michal loves David, and this is her undoing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The daughter of Israel\u2019s first king and first wife of its second, Michal is destined to be the greatest queen the Jewish people have ever known. But politics and history have other plans.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        In King Saul\u2019s court Michal proves a formidable character, orchestrating David\u2019s escape from her father\u2019s murderous wrath and serving as history\u2019s first example that if you love someone, you must set them free. On the run and separated from Michal during the many years that follow, David accumulates power, wives, and children, while Saul marries Michal off to another man. When King David finally demands Michal be restored to him, his motives are political\u2014having the daughter of the overthrown king by his side will bolster his claim to the throne.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        There is no grand display of affection when the calculating king and his denigrated queen are reunited. Instead, Michal appears only once more in the Tanakh, for her swan song.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        In 2 Samuel 6, David is bringing the Ark of the Covenant\u2014God\u2019s earthly abode\u2014to Jerusalem. <\/span>At this epic moment David leaps, exposed, before the Ark, his manhood on display before all of Israel.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Michal is watching from the window.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        \u201cDidn\u2019t the king of Israel do himself honor today\u2014exposing himself today in the sight of the slavegirls of his subjects, as one of the riffraff might expose himself!\u201d Michal chastises the king upon his return. In a rare biblical moment, we know exactly what Michal is thinking. She is royalty; David is rabble.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Michal\u2019s rebuke is rife with sexual resentment as well. Even Israel\u2019s slave girls are privy to David\u2019s manhood, but Michal has most likely been denied sexual relations with her husband since her return to him. And David has every reason to refrain. He has nearly obliterated the House of Saul, every member of it a threat to his reign. Were he to father a child with Michal, that child would be as much an heir of Saul as of David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        As a girl, Michal loved David enough to set him free, her resourcefulness and altruism enabling a boy to become a king. But Queen Michal is a jilted lover, her reunion with King David a fallacy. Chapter\u00a0 6 closes with the chilling words: \u201cAnd Michal daughter of Saul had no child till her dying day.\u201d She is, in fact, the only one of David\u2019s wives that does not bear him children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Doomed to live out her days as neither beloved wife nor mother, possessed by a king who fears her power, fated to gaze through a window and watch life pass her by, Michal is, perhaps, history\u2019s first princess locked in a tower. 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        Michal, daughter of the late King Saul and wife of the incumbent King David, cannot help but contrast the two men. Peering from her window, she sees David \u201cleaping and whirling\u201d in celebration of the Ark\u2019s return to Jerusalem, feeling contempt for her husband\u2019s lowly behavior and longing for the dignity of her father. Michal is the<\/span> Sally Yates<\/span><\/a> of David\u2019s palace, the holdover from a previous administration whose opinion on matters of state are entitled to negative weight, and David lets her know this in no uncertain terms: \u201cIt was before God who chose me instead of your father and <\/span>all his family <\/span><\/i>[read: that includes you]\u2026I will dance before God and dishonor myself even more.\u201d II Samuel 6:22-23.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Michal\u2019s words were heard again in Jerusalem on May 9, 1990, on the floor of the Knesset. The topic of the day was the<\/span> government-sponsored settling<\/span><\/a> of Israeli Jews in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Yossi Sarid of the left-wing Ratz Party (a predecessor to today\u2019s Meretz) decried the government\u2019s involvement in the project and alleged that the sellers of the property never received the full purchase price. He remarked that \u201cpatriotism is sometimes the first refuge of the swindler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Sarid then made things personal. Turning to Speaker of the Knesset Dov Shilansky, a supporter of the purchase, Sarid quoted II Samuel 6: \u201cWe saw you leaping and whirling at the Tomb of Joseph, and we peered through the window, and we saw you, and we had contempt for you in our hearts.\u201d Sarid was referring to another controversial event in May 1990, in which Shilansky and other government officials participated in a <\/span>hakhnasat Sefer Torah<\/span><\/i> in a new yeshiva established alongside the Tomb of Joseph in Shekhem. Residents of the city were placed under military lockdown, and members of the Knesset were photographed dancing with the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The import of Sarid\u2019s reference was not lost on Member (now President) Reuven Rivlin, who addressed the Knesset floor next, remarking, \u201cIt\u2019s not easy to follow after <\/span>Michal <\/span><\/i>Sarid.\u201d Rivlin understood that the story of II Samuel 6 celebrates David and condemns Michal. Sarid, who once said he studied Tanakh daily, must have understood this as well. Why would he place himself in the shoes of Michal and his political adversaries in those of the ascendant David?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Of course, the resonance of a Biblical story depends on perspective. In this chapter, Michal is the quintessential opposition party figure, peering out from a spectator\u2019s distance at the ruling party\u2019s celebration of its ideology and feeling mournful contempt. Despite her lack of power, though, Michal confronts the King and has her hopeless protest recorded for posterity in the pages of Tanakh. Yossi Sarid, the fiery opposition figure in 1990, could relate to that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        The showdown between this royal couple has elements of a soap opera. As the only woman in the Hebrew Bible who is said to love a man (1 Sam. 18.20), Michal has by now seen through David\u2019s press smile. She peers down from her window at his acrobatic reveries over the arrival of the ark in Jerusalem, and her love has turned to disdain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David makes offerings and passes out celebratory cakes to his fans before returning home to bless his household. Michal has witnessed the womenfolk apparently admiring more than his piety and has had enough: \u201cHow the king of Israel glorified himself today, exposing himself before the slave girls of his servants, disrobing like some vulgar dancer\u201d (v. 20, translation my own). David is indignant and scores of interpreters have written her off as an ice queen who was too bitter to swoon from the majesty, but I\u2019m with her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        His reply validates precisely the arrogance Michal is calling him out for: it was before the <\/span>LORD<\/span><\/i> he was dancing, the same LORD \u201cwho chose me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people\u201d (v. 21). He lords his election over her in an effort to put her in her place and eradicate the memory and authority of his predecessor. He will be as \u201cvile\u201d and as \u201cbase\u201d as he wants and achieve honor from the handmaids she dared to mention. The chapter then closes with a thunk: \u201cAnd Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death\u201d (v. 22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s supporters\u2014his southern base and those who followed throughout history\u2014would have no reason to doubt that the obstruction of motherhood was a sentence against Michal. Even feminist scholars who describe this scene as her suicide proliferate commentary that confines, erases, and murders her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        But nowhere in the Hebrew Bible is barrenness ever equated with punishment. And nowhere in this chapter (or in the one that follows in which God puts a damper on David\u2019s ambitions to build him a house) does it say God closed her womb or that David denied Michal children by refusing to have sex with her. On the contrary. It seems more likely that Michal closed the door on David so that he could not have an heir her father\u2019s northern tribes would recognize.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Samuel and Kings tell the story of the people\u2019s mistake to put power in human hands when they should have worshiped God alone\u2014a mistake that ends in the Exile. Michal\u2019s attack on David\u2019s hubris is theologically shrewd. Her denial of an heir disrupts his political hegemony. 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        Dear Diary,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Today was a rough day, probably the worst since I became King of all Israel. I thought I was doing a good thing, something God would love, but it seems that was maybe not the case. Honestly, I don\u2019t know what to think about what happened to Uzzah. This tragedy has caused me a lot of emotional turmoil, but let me back up and explain it all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Ever since I captured the city, I\u2019ve been thinking about the best ways to turn my City of David into the hub of our nation; that\u2019s why I went out of my way to conquer it in the first place. So, being a faithful servant of God, I thought, what better way to bring all Israel together than to bring us together around God? And what better way to do that than to bring our holiest object, the Ark of God\u2019s Covenant, to my new capital city? Seems like something that God would like, right?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        But something went terribly wrong, because we were only part of the way there when I saw a flash and heard all kinds of shouting and screaming coming from the procession behind me. I turned around and ran back to find that Uzzah, one of the men helping guide the cart carrying the Ark, had been struck down by God! I\u2019m still trying to untangle all the emotions this stirred in me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        I\u2019m angry. Angry at Uzzah for doing whatever it was he did to get himself killed. Angry at myself for letting it happen; I\u2019m the King, I\u2019m responsible for what happens to my people. And angry at God for smiting Uzzah! I was \u2013 we were \u2013 trying to honour and glorify God, and this is how God thanks us!? I\u2019m also scared, terrified even. What did we do wrong? What did <\/span>I <\/span><\/i>do wrong? Is this the reward for trying to do the right thing? Is my perception of how to honour God, is my connection with God, so off that I caused someone to die? Am I a bad king?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        This has been such a confusing day. There\u2019s no way we can proceed with moving the Ark to the City of David right now. I need to stop here and think about what I\u2019m doing, and how I\u2019m doing it. Uzzah also deserves some kind of memorial; whether it was his fault or not, he died doing something important and noble.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        That\u2019s all for today. Until next time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David, son of Jesse<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":59971,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-deardiary","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","width":550,"height":255,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary-300x139.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":139,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","medium_large-width":550,"medium_large-height":255,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","large-width":550,"large-height":255,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","1536x1536-width":550,"1536x1536-height":255,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","2048x2048-width":550,"2048x2048-height":255,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","post_full_size-width":550,"post_full_size-height":255,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","home_baner-width":550,"home_baner-height":255}},"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":"David\u2019s Inner Turmoil","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A page from David\u2019s daily diary","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":59971,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-deardiary","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","width":550,"height":255,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary-300x139.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":139,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","medium_large-width":550,"medium_large-height":255,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","large-width":550,"large-height":255,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","1536x1536-width":550,"1536x1536-height":255,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","2048x2048-width":550,"2048x2048-height":255,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","post_full_size-width":550,"post_full_size-height":255,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-deardiary.jpg","home_baner-width":550,"home_baner-height":255}},"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":"II Samuel","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"269","date":"20260909","wall_id":"269"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"431","name":"Personal\/memoir","old_id":"831"},{"term_id":"834","name":"David","old_id":"1234"}]},{"order":10,"id":"59992","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"David Doesn\u2019t Let God Off The Hook ","post_title":"David Doesn\u2019t Let God Off The Hook","slug":"david-doesnt-let-god-off-the-hook","old_id":"59992","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":35629,"post_title":"Asher Lopatin","slug":"asher-lopatin","old_id":"35629","first_name":"Asher ","last_name":"Lopatin","description":"Rabbi Asher Lopatin is the founding rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chayim, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Detroit, and the founding director of the Detroit National Center for Civil Discourse. 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        The greatest day in King David\u2019s life: bringing the Ark of the Covenant to the new capital city of Jerusalem. Thirty thousand people accompanying the Ark! A new wagon built especially for carrying the Ark (v.3). But, tragically, when the oxen carrying the wagon slipped, they caused the wagon to slip, and Uzzah, the son of Abinadav who guarded the Ark for twenty years, felt he had to reach out and grab the Ark to prevent it from slipping (v.6). God is furious and strikes Uzzah dead for his mistake of grabbing the Ark, for no one is allowed to touch the Ark with their hand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Was it such a crime for Uzzah trying to help? A crime deserving the death penalty? Should Uzzah pay for the mistake of putting the Ark on a wagon \u2013 and was that such a crime in the first place? Never mind: It is God\u2019s judgment. This incident reminds us of God striking down Aaron\u2019s two sons back in the Leviticus, ch. 10, where Moses tries to justify God\u2019s actions, and Aaron is silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s reaction is different. In verse 8 he actually gets angry, using the same word (vayichar) which describes God\u2019s anger at Uzzah, and the implication is that he is angry with God just as God was angry with Uzzah!\u00a0 David names the place where God struck down Uzzah \u201cPeretz Uzzah\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe Striking of Uzzah\u201d \u2013 and he calls the whole effort off (temporarily). David does not let God off the hook. He calls God to task to take responsibility for God\u2019s divine actions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David\u2019s relationship with God, of being a great believer even when he is angry at God, was an inspiration to me when our daughter was fighting brain cancer. Thank God she is healthy now. But I remember being on the cancer floor with all the other children not only suffering from cancer but also from the effects of chemo, and seeing their parents going through the horror of having a sick, endangered child. I remember saying to myself: I am angry!\u00a0 God, see this suffering! Like the location Peretz Uzzah, the cancer floor has God\u2019s name all over it. Yet, like King David \u2013 and with his inspiration - my belief in God told me that it was right to not let God off the hook: God, whom I love and I believe loves all of us: See your children suffering, and take responsibility for it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Sometimes being angry with the one you love makes them even more a part of your life. 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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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n

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

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

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        (1) Michal, aged 18; for David, a minstrel at the court of King Saul, her father<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Will David ever love me?\u00a0 Here at court,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>He plays his harp and lyre, plucking their strings<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>In ecstasy and passion as he sings<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Of prophets, priests and holy men who taught<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>That we must build our God a sacred fort,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A lofty bastion built of angel-wings<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Protecting all God\u2019s people and their kings,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A shrine of pious deeds and pious thought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Why can\u2019t he sing of me?\u00a0 God\u2019s prophets preach<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A husband\u2019s tender love reflects God\u2019s care<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>For His beloved, Israel, and her life;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Why can\u2019t the austere psalms of David teach<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>It is no shame, no sin, no vice to hear<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A shepherd takes a princess as his wife.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

         <\/p>\r\n

        (2) Michal, aged 38; for David, her husband<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Does David love me?\u00a0 At my father\u2019s court,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>We all loved him: my father used to bring<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Goliath\u2019s sword for him to wield; each spring<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>My brother shielded him in wars they fought;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>My sisters listened to the tales he taught<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>And clapped their hands when he agreed to sing;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>And I \u2014 I gave myself, and everything<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A woman gives, except the son I sought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Without his love, my life is but a beach<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Without its waves, without its sand, as bare<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>As boulders scraped and carved by an ocean\u2019s knife;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Without his love, my life's a tasteless peach,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>A grape without its juice, a shapeless pear;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Without his love, what meaning has my life?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        (3) Michal, aged 58; for David, the king of Israel<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Did David ever love me?\u00a0 Here at court,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>I watch each infant prince and princess cling<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>And suck their mother\u2019s breasts as mothers sing<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>About the wars our royal husband fought.<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>The older children, boys and girls, are taught<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Our people\u2019s laws and customs by the king,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Who kisses each, then gives each one a ring<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>And coats of many colors that he brought.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        I cling to my window-sill, out of reach,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>And hide amidst the shadows from the glare<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Of David\u2019s children\u2019s light, their sun, their life;<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Reciting psalms, I turn to God, beseech<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>His help and spend my days in silent prayer;<\/span>
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        After determining that it was safe to restore the Ark to the City of David, David accompanied the Ark from the house of Oved to Gitite by \u201cwhirling with all his might\u201d (v. 14). Yet his wife Michal sharply critiques her husband for having debased himself and his position as king. David responds that not only did he not lower his status in the eyes of the people, but he even elevated his stature by leading the people in celebration. The chapter goes on to make it clear that David\u2019s actions were indeed appropriate, and Michal\u2019s rebuke unwarranted.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Yet it is not clear why Michal was judged harshly for her seemingly legitimate critique. Further, David\u2019s response to her critique is uncharacteristic: \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! I will dance before the Lord\u201d (v. 21). For someone who constantly goes out of his way to defend the house of Saul, this is odd, to say the least. Since when does David \u201cthrow Saul under the bus\u201d and trumpet his own rise to power in place of Michal\u2019s deceased father?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        To better understand this episode, we might return to the underlying reason for Saul\u2019s loss of the kingdom, and the implicit contrast to David\u2019s mode of behavior. The genesis of Saul\u2019s downfall is difficult to pinpoint, because Samuel twice tells him that his sins have led to the loss of the kingdom: first, after he violates the words of the prophet and offers a sacrifice before the time is due; and second, after he refuses to completely destroy the people and animals of Amalek. How is it that Saul loses the throne twice? It would appear that the two episodes evince the same underlying shortcoming on the part of Saul: he allows other considerations, whether it be acceding to pressure from the nation or compassion toward King Agag and the Amalekites, to trump his absolute devotion to the word of God. At their heart, these two sins are truly one.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        David, by contrast, refers to himself as the \u201cservant of God\u201d (Psalms 118). He prioritizes his commitment to obey the word of God over other considerations. The 'flipside' is that David is willing to embarrass himself before the people while acting with devotion to God. This is the basis for his response to Michal, and why he stingingly critiques her father: God chose David precisely because he demonstrated a level of devotion, even to the point of social embarrassment or discomfort, that Michal\u2019s father was unable to summon. David reminds us that service of God takes ultimate priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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        Michal, daughter of Saul,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>why do you stare blackly at David<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>whom you love,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>whose life you saved?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Michal, daughter of Saul,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>why are you silent, so aloof?<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>Why do you not leave the palace<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>to lead the women in song?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Michal, daughter of Saul,<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>why do you place a mountain<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>blacker than a moonless night<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>between your love and you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        I look out of the window and stare.<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>How can the king forget his crown<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>and hobnob with the crowds?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

        Do I love him still?<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>After seeing him jump and leap<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>how can I not rebuke him?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

        His antics freeze me.<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>My heart which scaled mountains for him<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>has now turned to shell.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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        Back in 1 Samuel 7:1, we learned that the Holy Ark, which had been captured by the Philistines and returned after they were stricken with hemorrhoids, ended up in Kiryat\u00a0 Ye`arim, in the home of Abinadab \u201con the hill.\u201d There, it reposed throughout the reign of Saul and into the 8<\/span>th<\/span> year of David\u2019s reign, which is when he set out to retrieve it and bring it to Jerusalem. It was placed on a new wagon and accompanied by Abinadab\u2019s two sons, Uzzah and Ahio, with Ahio leading the oxen and Uzza following.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        At some point along the way, the oxen slumped over and Uzzah instinctively reached out towards the Ark to prevent it from sliding off the back of the wagon (6). God was angered, and He struck Uzzah dead on the spot (7). Since Uzzah appeared to have acted out of concern for the Ark, why was he so cruelly punished?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        To understand the Talmudic answer, we need to return to Joshua 4, and repeat some of our comments there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        At the close of [Joshua 3], we left the priests immersed up to their feet in water on the eastern bank of the Jordan, waiting with the Ark while the rest of the people crossed over. When that crossing was complete, God instructed Joshua to have the priests \u201cascend from the Jordan\u201d (verses 16-17) and \u201cas soon as the soles of the priests' feet were drawn up unto the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place as before\u201d (18).<\/span>
        \r\n<\/span>To which \u201cdry ground\u201d were the priests\u2019 feet drawn up? While logic would have it that the reference is to the west bank of the Jordan\u2014where the rest of the nation awaited them\u2014a talmudic Aggadah insists that the priests retreated to the eastern bank, whereupon \u201cthe Ark bore its bearers aloft and crossed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Rashi, following this aggadah, explained Uzzah\u2019s sin: \u201cHe should have expounded <\/span>a fortiori<\/span> [<\/span>kal va-homer<\/span><\/em>]: The Ark carried its own porters over the Jordan, is it not all the more so [that it is able to carry] itself?\u201d Rashi labels the crime a <\/span>shegagah<\/span><\/em>, meaning unintentional, perhaps implying that the severity of his punishment was also intended to serve as a deterrent to other, similar disrespectful acts, however inadvertent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Image: The<\/em> Death Of Uzzah<\/em>, by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in a medallion in Ljubljana Cathedral (1704)<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":59974,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-uzzah baroque","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","width":1024,"height":946,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-300x277.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":277,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-768x710.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":710,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-1024x946.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":946,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":946,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":946,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":946,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-455x420.jpg","home_baner-width":455,"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":"Uzzah Shoulda Known\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"But he hadn\u2019t read his Rashi...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":59974,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-uzzah baroque","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","width":1024,"height":946,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-300x277.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":277,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-768x710.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":710,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-1024x946.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":946,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":946,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":946,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":946,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-uzzah-baroque-455x420.jpg","home_baner-width":455,"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":"II Samuel","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"269","date":"20260909","wall_id":"269"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"366","name":"Commentators","old_id":"766"},{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"670","name":"Ark","old_id":"1070"}]},{"order":18,"id":"61100","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Dancing King ","post_title":"The Dancing King","slug":"the-dancing-king","old_id":"61100","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":60052,"post_title":"Alon Meltzer","slug":"alon-meltzer","old_id":"60052","first_name":"Alon ","last_name":"Meltzer ","description":"Rabbi Alon Meltzer is the Rabbi of Or Chadash and Director of Programs at Shalom in hte Sydney, Australia Jewish Community. 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        Chapter 6 shows the reader a side of David that we haven\u2019t truly seen before \u2013 the dancing king. In fact, the chapter shares with us two examples of David\u2019s desire to physically demonstrate his love and devotion to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        First, in verse 5, David and all the house of Israel dance alongside the Ark of the Covenant. Here the 15<\/span>th<\/span> century Spanish commentator the Akeidat Yitzchak shares that this dancing and playing of music was to bring the people into the right frame of mind. He contrasts it with the use of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah which stirs up the wells of emotion of those engaged in prayer. The 19<\/span>th<\/span> century commentator, Malbim, writes that there was a difference between these instruments and display by the people compared to the music made by the tribe of Levi in their Temple service; this was popular music there to engage the entire people in celebration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The second example given, in verse 16, sees King David entering the city in full dance, under the gaze of Michal, the daughter of King Saul. This causes her to further despise the enemy of her late father. She later chastises David, accusing him of debasing himself in wild dance. He rebuts the accusation and says that his dancing was not about his honor, but the need to elevate God in front of the entire people. If the King will dance, leading the way in displaying his love to God, then the people will follow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        The Spanish philosophical work, The Duties of the Heart, shares the idea that someone engaging with God, \u201cshould put aside all ego, and renounce personal pride and dignity while he is performing any religious service, whether he is alone or among a crowd of people.\u201d King David didn\u2019t just inspire the people around him in their service to God, he is a constant example as to how we should engage. 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        6:20 \u201cAnd David turned back to bless his house. And Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and she said \u2018How honored today is the king of Israel who has exposed himself today to the eyes of his servants\u2019 slavegirls as some scurrilous fellow would expose himself!\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        Commentary: Astoundingly, until this climactic moment, there has been no dialogue between Michal and David--only her urgent instructions for him to flee in 1 Samuel 19 and his silent flight. We can only guess what she may have felt all those years he was away from her, acquiring power and wives, or during the civil war with her father\u2019s family. We are equally ignorant of her feelings toward her devoted second husband, Paltiel son of Laish. Now the royal couple are finally represented meeting, and when Michal speaks out, it is an explosion of angry sarcasm. Her first significant word \u201chonored\u201d (balanced in David\u2019s rejoinder by two antonyms, \u201cdishonored\u201d and \u201cdebased\u201d) is a complex satellite to the story of the grand entry of the Ark with which it is linked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        When the Ark was lost to the Philistines (1 Samuel 4), the great cry was that \u201cglory [or, honor, <\/span>kavod<\/span><\/i>--the same verbal root that Michal uses here] was exiled from Israel.\u201d Now glory\/honor splendidly returns to Israel, but the actual invocation of the term is a sarcastic one, bitterly directed at David, who will then hurl back two antonyms and try to redefine both honor and dishonor to his wife. The logic of the larger story\u2019s moral and historical realism requires that no triumph should be simple and unambiguous, that strife and accusation pursue even the fulfillment of national destiny. One should also note here that Michal speaks to her husband in the third person, not deferentially but angrily, and refers to him by public title, not in any personal relation to her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

        From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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        \u201cDance, Dance... Revolution? Michal's Rebuke of David\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Zahava Stadler: When is it appropriate to dance?<\/p>\r\n

        \u201cB'shaah Tova: Fertility and Infertility in Tanach\u201d<\/a><\/u> by Lisa Septimus: Grappling with fertility challenges in the Bible.<\/p>\r\n

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        1. Same or different?<\/em> In the Hebrew, the same word is used to describe God\u2019s reaction to Uzzah\u2019s apparent indiscretion (vayichar-af YHWH<\/em> - verse 7), and David\u2019s response to God\u2019s striking out at Uzzah (vayichar le-David<\/em>-verse 8). Yet the first is translated \u201cThe LORD was incensed at Uzzah\u201d while the second is \u201cDavid was distressed because the LORD had inflicted...\u201d. Is the difference linguistic or theological?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        2. The band plays on.<\/em> The procession of the Ark is accompanied by all sorts of musical instruments, both familiar and less so: \u201cMeanwhile, David and all the House of Israel danced before the LORD to [the sound of] all kinds of cypress wood [instruments], with lyres, harps, timbrels, sistrums, and cymbals\u201d (verse 5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        3. The holiday menu<\/em>. David was generous with all the revelers: \u201cAnd he distributed among all the people\u2014the entire multitude of Israel, man and woman alike\u2014to each a loaf of bread, a cake made in a pan, and a raisin cake\u201d (verse 19). Par-tay!<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
        4. Michal - the end<\/em>. \u201cTo her dying day Michal daughter of Saul had no children\u201d (verse 23). Was she infertile? Or was it something between them? Either way - the split between the House of Saul and the House of David is permanent. There will be no joint heir.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"II Samuel 6","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"II Samuel","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"269","date":"20260909","wall_id":"269"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/59502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}