Rabbi David Tawil: Shemuel II Chapters 22 & 23 - "Song of David & David's Warriors"

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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.

we are in good morning everybody we're in chapter 22 of el bet we're in the middle I know it's been a couple of weeks since our last class so we'll try to refresh our memory a little bit we're in the middle of what they call shirat David the song of David um we split the song into really two parts that's the structure that we used the first part being David giving all of the credit to Hashem talking about some very dark times that he experienced in his life but how Hashem brought him out his life but how Hashem brought him out of it we saw that the language was very um was very praiseworthy of God and offloading all of the credit and giving everything to God the reason why I say that is because we're going to read now the second half of the song where there will be a significant amount of praise for God but the tone is going to shift a little bit we're going to see a lot of David talking about his own accomplishments and where he reached kind of piggybacking off of what we saw at the end of last class where David said it's not a wonder that Hashem

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1. 0:00we are in good morning everybody we're in chapter 22 of el bet we're in the…
2. 6:08Divine assistance that helps them to overcome their struggles right that's why it's so important to…
3. 12:25The Run defensive mindset that's him describing his ordeal with shall and that's why in that…
4. 18:36is a is a better term I like like pulverize pound grind them up right is…
5. 24:54little indication that what about saying is correct because how could that means speak these words…
6. 31:17comments before we move to chapter 23. okay so chapter 23 is again another short chapter…
7. 37:25he who rules men justly rules in the awe of God so your fear of God…
8. 43:51he descended and slain 800 people in one Fell Swoop right that's pretty crazy but two…
9. 50:04and the people the soldiers only returned back to him to strip down the slain soldiers…
10. 56:16Torah we've always seen this where the rabbi's balance between two personalities of David the king…

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