Rabbi David Tawil: Shemuel I Chapter 26- David & Shaul's Final Encounter

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The opening of this shiur, in David Tawil’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good morning everybody we're continuing our study of the book of shimo el alif we are up to chapter 26 um we did the lengthy chapter 25 peric cafe talking about david naval we left just one tiny bit thing hanging at the end of chapter 25 which was giving his daughter mikhail who was david's wife over to this man by the name of paltibe um we noted that the revised debated if we noted that the revised debated if this was a another marriage that it seems pretty unlikely that shuffle would get married woman who didn't have any kind of divorce um his daughter to another man so some people say they watched over each other or others say that they were divorced that it was just that matter of how the divorce worked nevertheless um i think the key takeaway is that the tanakh is once again teaching us navi is teaching us about complicated relationship between david and his wife relationship between david and his wife mikhail which we had already noted uh when they first got married was pretty complicated at the time michal is in a similar situation to her brother jonathan having to play between the sides of allegiance to her father the king versus their uh their allegiance and their their loyalty to she's married to him she saves him but she lies about it and and she doesn't go with him and there's always this kind of feeling that mikhail loves david david doesn't really love michal back we saw that in the text and again it seems

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