My husband told this over on Shabbos and I thought it was an unusually interesting story. It’s not Midrash and it’s not Kabbalah — it’s straight Gemara telling us what friends are for.
This is the story.
It starts at the time David HaMelech is almost starving to death while escaping from Shaul HaMelech. So David goes to the city of Nov the city of Kohanim. The city that housed the Urim V’Tumim.
David asks for food and shelter only to save his life. And yet the Torah holds David somewhat accountable for what was to be the fate of the Kohanim. That they would all be killed by Shaul for helping David his supposed archenemy.
This is Shaul’s downfall but what I never knew was that David HaMelech was also held accountable because he on the level he was on should have understood the possible consequences of his hiding in Nov.
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