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Nabal, your husband, is a rebel against the throne, as David had already been anointed as king by the prophet Samuel, and Nabal refused his orders. And therefore there is no need to try him, as a rebel is not accorded the ordinary prescriptions governing judicial proceedings. Abigail said to him:
The Talmud asks: The plural term damim, literally, bloods, indicates two. Why did David not use the singular term dam? Rather, this teaches that Abigail revealed her thigh, and he lusted after her, and he went 3 parasangs by the fire of his desire for her, and said to her: Listen to me, i.e., li
Apropos Abigail, the Talmud explains additional details in the story. Abigail said to David: “Yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bond of life with YHWH your God” (I Samuel 25:29), and when she parted from him she said to him: “And when YHWH shall have dealt well with my lord, and you shal
Rav Naḥman said that this explains the folk saying that people say: While a woman is engaged in conversation she also holds the spindle, i.e., while a woman is engaged in one activity she is already taking steps with regard to another. Abigail came to David in order to save her husband Nabal, but a
Huldah was a prophetess, as it is written: “So Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess” (II Kings 22:14) as emissaries of King Josiah. The Talmud asks: But if Jeremiah was found there, how could she prophesy? Out of respect for Jeremiah, who was