David Riceman wrote: > Harvey Benton wrote: >> Is having a melech a bidieved or a lechatchila? >> > See Ibn Ezra Shoftim 17:15 s.v. "Som Tasim". > > David Riceman > And see Rabbi Hartman's footnote 14 in his edition of Gur Aryeh Noah 10:8 (and, of course, what the Maharal says there). David Riceman