אמר רבי תנחום בריה דרבי חייא איש כפר עכו אמר רבי יעקב בר אחא אמר ר' שמלאי ואמרי לה אמר ר' תנחום אמר רב הונא ואמרי לה אמר רב הונא לחודיה
Rab explained: The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him [to David], 'Since you have humbled yourself you shall be like Me [that is], that I make a decree and you [may] annul it'.' Chief of the Captains',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Explained as Chief of the Trio, the three Patriarchs. isg');"><sup>41</sup></span> [that is] you be chief next to the three Fathers. He is Adino<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From = 'gentle'; he was gentle, tender.');"><sup>42</sup></span> the Eznite,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' ** _ wood; the wooden lance. Cf. I Sam. XVIl, 7. Cf. on this section, Seder Elijahu Rabbah Ed. M. Friedmann, III, pp. 15-16.');"><sup>43</sup></span> [that is] when he was sitting engaged in the [study of] Torah he rendered himself pliant as a worm, but when he went marching out to [wage] war he hardened himself like a lance.' On eight hundred slain at one time', [that is] when he threw a javelin he felled eight hundred slain at one time and moaned for the [shortage of] two hundred, for it is written: How one should chase a thousand.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXII, 30.');"><sup>44</sup></span> But an echo came forth and said: 'Save only for the matter of Uriah the Hittite'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I Kings XV, 5.');"><sup>45</sup></span> Said R'Tanhuni son of R'Hiyya a man of Kefar Acco as citing R'Jacob B'Aha who reported R'Simlai; and some say, R'Tanhun, said as reporting R'Huna; and again some say, R'Huna alone said that
Shulchan Shel Arba
And in connection to this you will also find it plainly stated in Perek Helek that in time to come the human height [komot] will return to two hundred cubits, and they also taught this in a midrash likewise in Perek Sefinah: “I will lead you komamiyut,” R. Meir says: [it means] two hundred cubits – twice the height of Adam. R. Judah says: A hundred cubits; corresponding to the [height of the] temple and its walls. For it is said: ‘carved after the fashion of the Temple. But insofar as it said, The Holy One, Blessed be He, will in time to come bring precious stones and pearls…and will cut out from them [openings] ten by twenty cubits, and will set them up in the gates of Jerusalem, as it is said, “and your gates of stones of carbuncle,” it seems from this that the height will be no more than twenty cubits. So therefore it must be said that the gates of the houses are not being spoken about, for how could they enter them at that height?! But rather, it’s certainly the gates of the windows that are being spoken about. And you already knew that parashat “Im Behukotai” is a promise of what will happen in the future, for what it says there never existed in the two Temples, neither in the First nor the Second Temple. For what is destined in the Torah through its promises is not al shlemut, but will happen in time to come after the ancient sin has been atoned for, which has never occurred at any time, and this is what our sages z”l taught in a midrash: When David went out to war he killed eight hundred at one time, but was sorry for the two hundred [he would have killed], to fulfill what has been said, “How could one have routed a thousand?” A voice from heaven went out and said, “Were it not for the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”
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