1. Children of Shmeul it says in pasuk they didn’t follow their fathers ways and went after money. It’s a dispute what exactly they did. Either they explicitly requested their maaser portions, they judged cases of ppl they invested with, they took too much maaser, or they took the gifts supposed to go to kohanim.

2. With dovid and batsheva, Rebbe defends dovid and says he didn’t really sin. Uriah sent her a bill of divorce that was effective and when dovid slept with her she was not married. Dovid caused Uriah’s death but that’s defended bc Uriah was מורד במלכות- he was disrespectful to Dovid. Perhaps dovid should have tried him in the Sanhedrin and not personally caused his death, but his death was certainly no murder.

3. There’s a a dispute between rav and shmuel if Dovid sinned by believing lashon harsh about מפיבושת. The background is that מפיבושת was yonasans son, shauls grandson, was taken in to dovids house after Dovid became king. He was a tremendous Talmid chochom. When Dovid was forced to leave the palace when Avshalom rebelled, Mefiboshes did not come with him. His slave, tziva, slandered Mefiboshes and told Dovid he was no longer loyal to him and secretly he wished to become King. Acc to Rav, dovid immediately accepted the slander and gave away Mefiboshes property to tziva. According to rav, the punishment for dovid believing the slander was that his own kingdom was split, which led to idolatry and then the destruction of the temple.

Shmuel disagrees and says Dovid did not believe the lashon harah. Dovid came back and found signs that Mefiboshes was not loyal to him and that’s why he really gave away his property.

1. The Pasuk seams to say that Shlomo wives caused him to do avoda Zara, but the Gemara says it means he wanted to sin but didn’t actually do it. However, since Shlomo should have protested against the sins of these women and he didn’t, he was held accountable.

2. When shlomo married daughter of Pharoh, the angel Gavriel through a reed in the sea and it formed a little island that became Rome. With more idolatry in the days if Yarovam, the island developed more and more.

3. Yoshiya is deceived as “returning to Hashem,” so one opinion says he must have been a sinner initially. However, another opinion says he wasn’t a sinner but rather that he regretted judging court cases from 8-18, and he returned all money to parties he had ruled against.

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30 Apr 2020