“But Sha’ul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him and kill him in the morning. Mikhal David’s wife told him, ‘If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be dead.’ So Mikhal let David down through the window; and he left, fled and escaped.”-1 Samuel 19:11-12 When Saul sent his so-called “messengers” […]

“But Sha’ul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him and kill him in the morning. Mikhal David’s wife told him, ‘If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be dead.’”-1 Samuel 19:11 After Saul’s second failed attempt on David’s life, David escapes and is now nowhere to be found. Since David has […]

“War broke out again, and David went and fought the P’lishtim. He defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled before him.”-1 Samuel 19:8 So in verse 8, we’re told another fight broke out with the Philistines who always desired to keep their trade routes open, linking their ports to their customers in the […]

I wanna share a personal story. Since I was a small child, I suffered terrible abuse at the hands of my mother, worse than anyone should ever experience. Last summer, when I told a friend some of what happened over coffee, he said if the authorities knew, my mom would’ve been arrested, no question. The […]

“Y’honatan spoke well of David to Sha’ul his father and said to him, ‘The king shouldn’t sin against his servant David, because he hasn’t sinned against you. On the contrary, his work for you has been very good indeed.  He put his life in his hands to attack the P’lishtim, and Adonai accomplished a great […]