Two Women and a Baby: The Wisdom of King Solomon - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] my [Music] good morning everybody welcome we're going to explore today one of the most famous stories in the tanakh and not only famous among jews but really extremely famous also among non-jews particularly that it's the first recorded and major decision in legal jurisprudence that we have in human history human history and thus its significance and it's uh especially connected to one of the mitzvahs and parshas kiseitse the background of the story is in the book of malachim in the book of kings david hamelach passes on he is succeeded by his son solomon who turns to hashem and asks god for a leif shamaya he wants to have wisdom he wants to have the to have wisdom he wants to have the blessing of perceptiveness discernment so you should be able to judge the people justly and fairly hashem promises him this great wisdom and sense of perception so he can lead his nation as a demonstration of the great of the great brilliance and wisdom and perceptiveness of the new king and perceptiveness of the new king the tanakh goes on to describe a story that happens and this is right in the beginning of the stories of muhammad's tenure malachi based paragumal the second book of kings the third chapter let's take a look inside and read the story the way it's recorded in say from in the navi oz two women who are described as zaynos two women who are described as zaynos which what that means some commentators say zoinus from the word messianus meaning they had a hotel or a motel they would feed people they were chefs or zionists literally promiscuous women they both come to the king to schleim and they stand listen to her words me

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1. 0:00[Music] my [Music] good morning everybody welcome…
2. 6:08your son is the one that died with zoysia mares the other woman the first woman…
3. 12:33with even your own shop another child as is quite well known enhances the challenge profoundly…
4. 18:47there must have been testimony and he had it he had access to this he must…
5. 25:12he needs to be assassinated he says if i was in the palace this is going…
6. 31:34because you will see some nuances that you didn't see last night and you'll be making…
7. 38:12of a hard language that has but i want to read to you a few lines…
8. 44:52no no the woman who says the whole story that her child was abducted the middle…
9. 51:16one of the great commentators of gemara who lived in the 1200s in province in southern…
10. 57:23the details but let's just go through swiftly a few details so we can understand the…

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