<div dir="ltr">RMRabi wrote:<div dir="auto">> <span style="font-size:12.8px">It seems that when the Navi rebukes Dovid HaMelech</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> for the incident with </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">BSheva, that only someone who</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> is both blind and insensitive, an absolute n</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">arcissist,</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> could fail to understand the meaning behind the Mashal</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> even </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">before the Navi is halfway through it. Learning</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> this episode, even little </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">kids can see what is coming,</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> and are cringing - and yet the great king </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">failed to see</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> and needed to be told ?You are that man.?</span><br><br>Was
David being narcissistic? Did he fail to understand the metaphor? I
don't think so. I think David definitely understood Nathan, but ever so
slightly misinterpreted it. For David, he was himself the poor man, the
"sheep" was Michal, and the wealthy man talking away the poor man's wife
was Shaul. David understood very well that this was a metaphor about
injustice, which makes Nathan's response "atah haish" all the more
poignant, as it turns the tables on David. </div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><div>Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</div><div>Yours sincerely,</div></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Arie Folger<br>Visit my blog at <a href="http://rabbifolger.net/" target="_blank">http://rabbifolger.net/</a><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><a href="http://rabbifolger.net/2016/01/28/wir-missionieren-nicht-aber-warum-nicht/" rel="bookmark" target="_blank"></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>