Saturday, January 13, 2007

2 points agadata

1. the gemara sounds as if dovid was suppose to become king right after shaul sinned, if so how did shaul get an extension of 2.5 years and cause the kingdom of dovid to start late. unless the gemara means that shaul would've gotten an even longer extension because of shmuel and he only got 2.5 because that is when dovid was suppsoed to start his kingdom.

a 2nd point,why is it impossible for moshe and aron to loose the talmid yehushua in their lifetime but possible for them to loose nadav and avihu? i think maybe because yehushua was the ultimate talmid, that is why and the order of teaching of the torah mentioned in eruvin yehushua is not one of the teachers.

any thoughts??

1 comment:

Benja Ganz said...

To point #1:
It seems that Shaul was originally supposed to reign for 2.5 years. When he sinned Hashem wasnted to end his reign right then and replace him with another king (either Dovid or someone else until Dovid was ready). This would not have been an infraction on the idea of one kingdom not infringing on another because Shaul brought it upon himself.
Shmuel's tefila restored the order according to its original intentions.