Daily Tanach Wednesday 14th Shevat, Sefer Melachim 2 Chapter 7 Part 3: The people help themselves to the food and spoils left over by Aram

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  1. The people help themselves to the food and spoils left over by Aram:
  • When the people were informed that the Arameans fled, they went out into their camp and plundered from it all the food and spoils.
  • The price of flour and barley: Due to the newly found great abundance of grain, a seah of fine flour was sold in the market for a shekel, and likewise two seahs of barley was sold in the market for a shekel, just as Elisha had prophesized would occur.
  • The king’s minister is trampled and killed: The king appointed his minister, who expressed disbelief of the prophecy, to watch over the gate of the city, and the people [in their great haste to get some food] trampled over him and he died, just as Elisha had prophesized would occur when the king visited him the day before. You see, on the previous day, when Elisha told the king that by the next day two seahs of barley will be sold for a shekel and a seah of fine flour will be sold for a Shekel in the gates of Shomron, the above-mentioned officer replied to Elisha in disbelief saying that he does not expect G-d to make windows in the sky for the food to fall through. Elisha then replied to him saying that he will indeed witness the miracle of the abundance of food but will not get to partake in it, and this is exactly what happened to him, as the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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