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Shoftim 021: Permission To Marry Shevet Binyamin
David Goldman asks:
In Shoftim Rashi says that the mayse of Pesel Micha and Pilegesh Bagiva took place in the time of Osniel after arriving in Eretz Yisroel. In 1 Shmuel 20:30 he says that Shaul was too shy to take a wife after his tribe lost so many women. Since no sources suggest that Shaul and Yonasan lived several hundred years, the only explanation I could think of is that Rashi held that the decision to marry with Binyamin did not occur IMMEDIATELY after the war against Binyamin but indeed several hundred years later. But of course by that time if Binyamin's men had been excluded they would have completely disappeared. So what could be the teyrutz for Rashi? Thanks.
David Goldman, USA
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The Kollel replies:
You ask a very good question. I found this question in the Mishpetsos Zahav on Shoftim. The only answer I can give you is that the Medrashim argue with each other. Those who hold that Shaul was alive at the time of Pilegesh bGivah must hold like the Radak and Abarbanel that Pilegesh bGivah happened at a much later time, and the Seder Olam cannot hold that Shaul was alive at the time of Pilegesh bGivah.
Dov Freedman
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