How Do We Approach a President Trump?

And letters were sent to all the king’s provinces, to destroy, slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take their possessions...(1) When Mordecai heard all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; (2) and he came close to the king’s gate; for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. (3) And in every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. ... (13) Then Mordecai told them to return to Esther, saying: ‘Don't think that you will escape in the king’s house, unlike all the other Jews. (14) For if you remain silent at this time, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish; and who knows, perhaps you have been chosen to live in the palace for such a time as this?’ (15) Then Esther told them to go back to Mordecai and say: (16) ’Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I and my maidens will also fast; and then I will go in to the king, even though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.’ (17) So Mordecai went his way, and did what Esther commanded him.

(1) So the king and Haman came to a banquet with Esther the queen. (2) And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: ‘Whatever your request, queen Esther, it shall be granted you; even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.’ (3) Then Esther the queen answered and said: ‘If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases you, let my life be given to me as my request, and the life of my people; (4) for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. If we had been sold as slaves I would not have said anything, because I know how much you like the culprit (5) Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen: ‘Who is he, and where is he, who is trying to do this?’ (6) And Esther said: ‘An adversary and an enemy, this wicked Haman.’

(5) And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and kept on cursing as he came. (6) And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. (7) And thus said Shimei when he cursed: ‘Begone, begone, you man of blood, and violent fellow; (8) the LORD has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; behold this is payback for your transgressions, because you are a man of blood.’ (9) Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king: ‘Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, please, and take off his head.’ (10) And the king said: ‘What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Let him curse, because the LORD has said to him: Curse David; who then shall say: Why are you cursing me?’ (11) And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants: ‘Behold, my son, who came out of my body, seeks my life; why should I care about this Benjamite? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has told him to. (12) It may be that the LORD will take notice of me, and that the LORD will forgive me because I did not fight back when he cursed me today.’ (13) So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

The king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal. to bring the king over the Jordan. And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, ran and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David... And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan. And he said unto the king: ‘Please do not punish me, and please don't remember that day when I was disrespectful to you when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem. For your servant does know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I have come this day before everyone else to go down to meet my lord the king.’... The king said to Shimei: ‘You shall not die.’ And the king swore to him.

(1) The days of David came near to death; and he charged Solomon his son, saying: ...(8) And, behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a terrible curse when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying: I will not put you to death with the sword. (9) Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his pig head down to the grave with blood.’ (10) And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

(44) The king also said to Shimei: ‘You know all the wickedness which you have done, that you did to David my father; therefore the LORD shall return your wickedness upon your own head. (45) But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever.’ (46) So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died. And the kingdom was established under Solomon.

(13) And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

The Torah uses this specific language to tell us that God gave the people a mission with regard to Pharaoh, specifically that they should show him respect in all that they said about him.

(8) Speak up for the speechless, for the rights of all the unfortunate. (9) Speak up, judge righteously, champion the poor and the needy.

(23) Abraham came forward and said, “Will You sweep away the innocent along with the guilty? (24) What if there should be fifty innocent within the city; will You then wipe out the place and not forgive it for the sake of the innocent fifty who are in it? (25) Far be it from You to do such a thing, to bring death upon the innocent as well as the guilty, so that innocent and guilty fare alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”

Who beholds the kings of Israel should say, "Blessed... Who has imparted of Your glory to them that fear You"; but on seeing the kings of other peoples he says, "Blessed... Who has imparted of Your glory to Your creatures." R. Johanan said : A man should always run to meet the kings of Israel ; and not only the kings of Israel, but even to meet the kings of other peoples, for if he is worthy, he will distinguish between the kings of Israel and of other peoples.

Come and hear : R. Eleazar b. Sadok said : We used to leap upon the coffins of the dead to meet the kings of Israel, and not only to meet kings of Israel do they so permit, but even to meet the kings of other nations ; for if he be worthy, he will discern between the kings of Israel and the kings of other nations.- The rabbis thus decreed that a person was allowed to transgress the prohibition of coming in contact with a dead body so as to fulfill the commandment of showing respect to royalty.