Nach Yomi A Deeper Look: Shmuel Bet 15 "Lessons from Avshalom's Rebellion"

And this rebellion becomes very difficult.

The whole process seems a little bit strange.

In fact, the Gemara in Megillah, daf-chof he-yamad-beis, tells us, ma'aseh ha-shalom nikro-metagim.

The Gemara wants us to know that this whole story, when it's studied in shul, Right? It is read and it's translated.

In other words, even the simple people are allowed to hear it.

Now the Gemara says, Pshita, that's obvious.

Of course.

What's the problem? There's nothing improper in here.

So the Gemara says, Maybe we should be concerned about the honor of David.

And the Gemara says, Therefore, it comes to teach us.

The Gemara says, We are allowed to go ahead and proceed.

Now the first question we've got to ask is, And it will carry us through this entire understanding from a certain perspective.

Why are we not worried about the honor of WML? He gets deposed after years of dedication to the people.

So the Bermosha suggests that the Gemara answers, that we have a lot of things, that the point of having this is that there are things we're supposed to learn from here.

And that's why we read it, that's why we translate it, because the main lesson, there are main lessons to be learned from this Parsha.

And the first one is that we can see how great the power of swaying people, and chanufa, you know, enticement and lies, and how a person needs to really, how a person needs siyata deshmaya, the help of shamayim and tefillos, in order to go ahead and get people to the truth, and not to follow sheker, not to follow lies.