Reply To: Avraham Avinu

If I sound monomaniacal about ascertaining the internal battles of Avraham, it’s because I’m trying to write a novel and I really have no idea how to portray his emotions. As for the idea of being like a malach, Tehillim 90 calls Moshe “??? ??????” which Devarim Rabbah 11:4 interprets as saying Moses attained the status as a malach. As for David, the Tanach itself says he sinned (such as when he made the census at the very ends of Divrei HaYomim and Sh’muel Bet). I’m pretty certain what happened was he sinned when sending Uriyah to his death, which David was punished with the death of his first baby who came from Batsheva, and Chazal was saying that he didn’t actually sin with Batsheva.