Shmuel 2 – Dovid HaMelech – Census and Plague – The Power of Sefer Tehillim – Hashem’s Arrows – Purchase of Land for the Beis HaMikdash – Speaker: Rabbi Tzvi Aryeh Rosenfeld ז”ל.
05:07 – Benayahu ben Yehoyada – “He went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day” (II Shmuel/Samuel 23:20) – immersions in an ice-covered Mikveh.
11:02 – Dovid HaMelech (King David) wishes to taste the water of the Plishtim and his generals risk their lives to get it for him.
16:05 – It is prohibited to count Jews. Taking a census caused a deadly plague during the reign of Dovid HaMelech. The king was given a choice as to what punishment would be meted out by Hashem.לְהַגִּיד כִּֽי־יָשָׁ֣ר יְהֹוָ֑ה צ֜וּרִ֗י וְֽלֹא־עַוְלָ֥תָה (כתיב עַלָ֥תָה) בּֽוֹ “…and there is no wickedness in Him” (Tehillim/Psalms 92:16).
20:19 – The prophet Gad confronts Dovid HaMelech about the census and its consequences.
22:59 – The mercy of Hashem is unlimited, as is shown in His promise that Am Yisrael will outlast “all Hashem’s arrows”.
*25:59 – When the plague struck Jerusalem, Dovid HaMelech prayed with great intensity on behalf of Am Yisrael. His suffering enabled him to compose the universally powerful words of Sefer Tehillim.
28:01 – The ten types of song with which Sefer Tehillim was composed (Rashi on Tehillim 1:1).
30:50 – Dovid HaMelech insisted on paying money for the purchase of land for the Beis HaMikdash even though the non-Jewish owner of the land, Aravna, offered to give it for free.
32:53 – The first Mishna in Kedushin is about ownership, property, acquisition. Women have more Emunah (faith) than men.
33:59 – The death of Avishai.
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