Saturday, May 20, 2006
5/20/2006 09:33:00 PM | 
Posted by
JoeSettler
There was an interesting article in BaSheva – the Arutz-7 newspaper, this Shabbat.
The author created an interesting analogy between our situation today and that of David and Saul (which I will describe, and then expand upon his theme).
As we all know, Saul made a serious mistake with regard to fulfilling his kingly requirements and G/d’s will and was told as a result he would lose the kingship. And we all know that David was anointed in his place.
As Saul’s reign began to end, he became mentally ill and made some very wrong decisions and started to do some not so good things, which in his attempts to hurt/kill David severely hurt his own subjects.
David, the anointed (Mashiach) also made a decision.
He knew he was to be king, but b’ito ub’zmano (in its proper time and place). He wasn’t going to step forward and replace Saul until it was his proper time to take over.
And most importantly he did not raise a hand against Saul no matter what Saul did.
And David openly broke Saul’s laws, and David fought the Philistine enemy, and David built up the beginnings of his empire to replace Saul’s. But David refused to raise a hand against Saul even when he had the chance.
The commentators even say that David suffered at the end of his life with the inability to warm up (diabetes?) because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s clothing while Saul was asleep. This minor infringement on Saul’s person resulted in a punishment for David.
We, the religious (settlers) should see ourselves as the new anointed. The rightful, new rulers to be, because in the future it is us who will run the State of Israel. Of that there is no question.
But b’ito ub’zmano (in its proper time and place).
Until that proper time we need to follow the example of David.
No matter how evil this government gets, no matter how terrible their actions – we need to act a certain way.
We can be civilly disobedient. We can fight the real enemy. We can establish the foundations for our future Torah-based government and institutions.
But we cannot raise a violent hand to end this government before its time.
Like Saul, this government will know defeat at the hands of its real enemies, and then commit suicide – it’s obvious that it is on that path already.
But like David, we must be ready to take over, to clean house, and to create the Jewish empire as it was meant to be.
David was forbidden to build the first Temple (beyond the foundations) because his hands were bloodied in war with the enemies of Israel. Imagine if his hands were bloodied with the blood of Saul, perhaps he too would have lost the Malchut.
Our hands too must be clean from the blood of our brothers (no matter how violent, disgraceful and evil they act), if we are to be worthy and ready to properly build the Third Jewish Commonwealth.
The author created an interesting analogy between our situation today and that of David and Saul (which I will describe, and then expand upon his theme).
As we all know, Saul made a serious mistake with regard to fulfilling his kingly requirements and G/d’s will and was told as a result he would lose the kingship. And we all know that David was anointed in his place.
As Saul’s reign began to end, he became mentally ill and made some very wrong decisions and started to do some not so good things, which in his attempts to hurt/kill David severely hurt his own subjects.
David, the anointed (Mashiach) also made a decision.
He knew he was to be king, but b’ito ub’zmano (in its proper time and place). He wasn’t going to step forward and replace Saul until it was his proper time to take over.
And most importantly he did not raise a hand against Saul no matter what Saul did.
And David openly broke Saul’s laws, and David fought the Philistine enemy, and David built up the beginnings of his empire to replace Saul’s. But David refused to raise a hand against Saul even when he had the chance.
The commentators even say that David suffered at the end of his life with the inability to warm up (diabetes?) because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s clothing while Saul was asleep. This minor infringement on Saul’s person resulted in a punishment for David.
We, the religious (settlers) should see ourselves as the new anointed. The rightful, new rulers to be, because in the future it is us who will run the State of Israel. Of that there is no question.
But b’ito ub’zmano (in its proper time and place).
Until that proper time we need to follow the example of David.
No matter how evil this government gets, no matter how terrible their actions – we need to act a certain way.
We can be civilly disobedient. We can fight the real enemy. We can establish the foundations for our future Torah-based government and institutions.
But we cannot raise a violent hand to end this government before its time.
Like Saul, this government will know defeat at the hands of its real enemies, and then commit suicide – it’s obvious that it is on that path already.
But like David, we must be ready to take over, to clean house, and to create the Jewish empire as it was meant to be.
David was forbidden to build the first Temple (beyond the foundations) because his hands were bloodied in war with the enemies of Israel. Imagine if his hands were bloodied with the blood of Saul, perhaps he too would have lost the Malchut.
Our hands too must be clean from the blood of our brothers (no matter how violent, disgraceful and evil they act), if we are to be worthy and ready to properly build the Third Jewish Commonwealth.
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