<div dir="auto">That’s not what the Gemara says. It says explicitly that they were Dovid’s children. I wish I could paste Hebrew for the exact text. I looked at the major mefarshim on the daf I didn’t see any that said they weren’t Dovids children. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <<a href="mailto:rygb@aishdas.org">rygb@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><u></u>
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<p>They weren't his. They were children of yefos to'ar, but he did
not sire all of them. Perhaps some of them.</p>
<p>YGB<br>
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<div>On 2/27/2025 6:18 AM, Marty Bluke via
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 1:13PM Micha Berger <a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace"><micha@aishdas.org></a> wrote:
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 07:53:25AM +0200, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
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<pre style="font-family:monospace"> . So how do we understand that Dovid had
400 children from yefas toars! Did he have such a great yetzer hara that
he couldn't control?
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">Ask Uriah haChitti...?
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">I wish I could. But given his absence does anyone have an answer?
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