the Talmud says you’re mistaken.
Why?
Because the point of the story with Batsheva isn’t failure, it’s how a person comes back from a moment that feels like failure. it was recorded to teach us something about love, repair, and what it means to come back to G-d after you’ve broken something.
King David didn’t fall the way people imagine.
But he did walk through an inner darkness so deep that something new was born out of it:
Tehillim (Psalms) Chapter 51. And that chapter is the key.
Chapter 51 is the emotional map for a person who acted from a place of out-of-control narcissism, not the personality disorder, but the human pattern of protecting shame through:
1. acting without compassion
2. making boundaries without compassion
3. hurting someone to protect your own fear
It’s the moment you realize:
“I damaged something… and I don’t know how to speak to G-d anymore.”
King David gave us the script for that moment.
He gave language to the feelings inside a person who wants to repair, but doesn’t know where to begin:
1. How do I face what I did without drowning in shame?
2. How do I ask for closeness when I feel unworthy?
3. How do I reconnect when my actions came from fear, not love?
Chapter 51 is the answer.
It teaches you how to talk to G-d again. How to let humility soften your defenses. How to let compassion back into the system. How to begin repairing what you broke, inside yourself and with others. In that sense, King David’s “sin” wasn’t a fall.
It was an act of love, because it gave every person who ever hurts someone, not out of cruelty, but out of fear, a pathway back to truth, and relationship.
That’s why the Talmud says:
If you think King David sinned, you don’t understand the story. He didn’t fall away from G-d. He opened a door for you to find your way back.
More guides:
How does a person become a channel for G-dliness? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BcnPPYYLo/
Trauma takes away your awareness: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D2JUUfRzw/
Why is everyone living in survival mode? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17H9SPg1Pu/
What does Jesus feel embarrassed by? https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CnuUceuky/
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