Musar for Yevamot 156:17
אמר אין הדבר תלוי אלא בי מיד ויבקש דוד את פני ה' מאי היא אמר ריש לקיש ששאל באורים ותומים
[the Master] said to him: I have given you life.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra. text and p. 533, nn. 9 and 10. ');"><sup>41</sup></span> R. Hana b. Adda stated: David issued the decree of prohibition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To enter the assembly. ');"><sup>42</sup></span> against the nethinim,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pl. of nathin. V. Glos. ');"><sup>43</sup></span>
Orchot Tzadikim
And thus we find that when there was a famine for three years in the time of David, he sought to find the sin that had caused the famine and finally discovered that because of his own conduct the famine had come (Yebamoth 78b). Therefore, in every bad happening a man should worry lest it occurred because of him.
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