David, the Warrior
The seasons had slippled by with such stealth. He had never been a large man, but he had been robust, full of the vitalitiy that is fed by the love of life. Each morning he recognized a day that hwhy made possible, and he had determined to find reason to rejoice in them all. His duty as a man and his trials as a king had been many, but their weight had not cirppled his spirit.

Eager to do as well as he could, he had trusted the Father to compensate for his inaadequacies, as in the matter of Goliat. Conceding that his physical powress would provide no entertainment for the watching armies as they dueled with one another, he had persuaded Goliath that he could convince him that the cunning of the shepherd was more effective in protecting the interests of the state than the savagery of the soldier.

They had argued with great animation and showmanship until late in the day, and he had always turned the thoughts of the cycops to his own shape, admitting this or that advantage one would have with a singlel-eyed vision, free of the duality that so clearly plagues the common man, and to this the soldiers on both sides had good-heartedly agreed, with bragging and boastings and complaints and wishes being voiced here and there, across the field.

The Canaanaites had their gods, and the tribes of Jacob's heirs had only one; and just as Goliath was prepared to declare that the day was his, David had recited the Shema, explaining in depth how the ten fods of Canaan were faces of the Elohim of Ya'akov. The children of Cain had all been faithful to the garments of the god with which the ancestors had entrusted them,  and they had lost the lore of their unity. The Shema was the smooth stone that fit the sockets of every eye in the field as all began to conceive of their unity through the twisting of words.

The sling of David's tongue had never been more effective; and at the end of the day, the field was strewn with the corpses of enemies of HaShem. Their spuirits retreated from antagonistic engagement and settled into to deep thought. Like caterpillars drilling the branches to anchor their cocoons, they settled into themselves for close examination, beginning in themselves the process of t ransformation that would make them brothers with those they were ready to slay as enemies.

 of the shepherd was changing the rules of engagement from combat hof that great triumph at the beginning of his public life, David remembered it with mixed emotions. It had been simply grand to stand in that field, knowing he would prevail against the challenge shouted bihy p;oatu;;;;;;;;; of Goliath. The giant's mockery of the forces of King Saul had been directed issued against the king's beliefs
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