[Avodah] MR was king

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
>> Would this have worked? Moshe Rabbeinu haya melech (see Tanhuma
>> Beha'alothcha 9, cited by the Rambam but I don't recall where).  A
>> king's wife may not remarry (H. Melachim 2:2).>>

> How literally do we take this? Obviously he did not pass the kingship
> to his son as a normal king would do.

Nor did he pass the kehuna on, even though he was a kohen.  Yerusha is
not an attribute of kingship, but a din in the choosing of a king; when
there is a vacancy on the throne, preference is to be given to the
previous king's sons, if they are fit.  But if they are not fit, then
it doesn't pass; in any case, when Moshe died he didn't create a vacancy,
so there was no occasion for one of his sons to fill it.


> There are many other laws,
> did MR have to shave often? (what MR didn't have a long umkempt beard!!)

A king does not have to shave often, or at all.  He does have to cut his
hair as often as necessary to maintain a perfect style; the Rambam
(Melachim 2:5) says that's every day, but the reason he gives doesn't
seem to support so strict a requirement.  If the style he wears can go
without maintenance for two or three days, or even a week, then surely
he can go that long.



> Did he keep a sefer Torah with him all the time?
> (Since the sefer Torah wasnt finished till he died obviously not)

OTOH once it was finished...

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