David HaMelech , The King’s Fool or the Model of Mashiach Against Amalek

David HaMelech leaves us a heritage, a key: Ani tefillati,  “I am prayer.”
Two words that alone lay the very foundations of our Jewish identity, the purpose of our life in this world, animated every second by a deep emunah ,  a faith that guides us to see only HaShem in the smallest details of our life, in every trial, in every headline. Nothing exists outside the will of the King of Kings.

It is this emunah that leads us to address daily prayers to HaShem, not for the sake of ritual, but for the sole purpose of finding ourselves in that intimate, private, and privileged conversation with our Father.

David HaMelech endured trials strikingly close to those our people face today. From the earliest moments of his life, he suffered humiliation and testing. His reign was marked by wars and challenges, yet he remained rooted in his ani ,  his identity,  making him the model of the Jewish king for all time.

War, hostage-taking, mourning, widowhood, poverty, defamation,  circumstances that seem the very opposite of what we imagine for a king’s jester. And yet, HaShem calls him His “Fool of the King.” David never stopped singing. Nothing diverted him from his mission, from his ani. Whatever reality HaShem placed before him, he accepted it with love and responded with presence. From the armies of Shaul to the betrayal of his own son Avshalom, nothing distanced him from his inner joy.

He would take up his harp and compose those hymns to HaShem’s kingship that still today carry our prayers, infused with the fullness of our love for our brothers and sisters in all situations.

David drank deeply from the kingship of HaShem in its most perfect fullness simply to exist. He became one with his reality, having internalized in the depths of his soul that it was HaShem Himself who clothed Himself in these improbable scenarios that marked his entire life.

They maintained an unbroken dialogue. David HaMelech remains the living king of our people, the model the King Mashiach ben David will follow.

He bequeaths to us the code to the door of the Master of the Universe’s chamber: TODA! gratitude,  and the ultimate purpose of our existence: to be ourselves, to be our" ani".
For if I am not myself… who will be?

Shabbat Shalom !

Mikhal