Commentary for II Samuel 23:15
וַיִּתְאַוֶּ֥ה דָוִ֖ד וַיֹּאמַ֑ר מִ֚י יַשְׁקֵ֣נִי מַ֔יִם מִבֹּ֥אר בֵּֽית־לֶ֖חֶם אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּשָּֽׁעַר׃
And David longed, and said: ‘Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate! ’
Rashi on II Samuel
Who will give me water to drink. Our Rabbis said,15Baba Kama 60b. See Rashi there. he [Dovid] needed to ask a [halachic] question from the Sanhedrin court that sat at the gate of Beis Lechem.16The “water” of our verse is referring to Torah which is compared to water. See Devorim Raboh 7:3.
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