Episode #27 The Experiment of the Kings
In this episode, Rabbi Reinman introduces Saul, the first Jewish king, and explains how his role differed from the role of King David.
Chapter Twenty-seven: The Experiment of the Kings
Four centuries after it began, the experiment of the Judges had ended. The Jewish people were apparently incapable of sustaining for very long a society without a political superstructure, a society in which “everyone did as he saw fit.”[1] Only the moral authority of the great sages exerted national influence, but the history of the Period of the Judges had shown that moral authority alone was an inadequate societal control.
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