And Saul cast the spear, thinking, ‘Let me strike through David into the wall…” (18:10) (See Uriel Simon, Bakesh Shalom v’Rodfehu, pp. 154-6) It was not Israel’s enemies who felled Saul ...

Have I no name of my own?” (Adapted and abridged from Pesikta deRav Kahana 18:1 Mandelbaum ed. p. 293) This midrash recognizes that the first stage in delegitimizing a person is by disparaging ...