<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">That is exactly what the story is telling us.  </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Naval</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> could have arranged</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">this himself.  This is a standard business procedure in this locale.  If</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">you protect/enhance property, even if not engaged to do so, you are</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">entitled to be compensated. No, I do not understand when/how that works and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">when/how it does not work.>></span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">As an aside a nice discussion of the roles of David and Naval in the story can be found at</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/47shmuel.htm">http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/47shmuel.htm</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/48shmuel.htm">http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/48shmuel.htm</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/49shmuel.htm">http://vbm-torah.org/archive/shmuel/49shmuel.htm</a><br>
</font></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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