Perek Tes Zayin כא To לא Flashcards
When the plishtim got shimshon what were the things they did to him (3)
1) gauges out his eyes
2) brought him to Gaza
3) shackled him in bronze Chains and made him grind in prison
They brought his down to Gaza which was …..
His place where destruction began
Gauged out his eyes
Eyes =
Which is
How is it those things
1) desire
2) greatest strength and weakness
S - he is precepetive - a spy - a shofat
W - had inappropriate interactions was blinded by his wives antics and his desire to satisfy her that he ignored her negative intentions
Desire = Who did shimshon rely on too much? What didn’t he do? Remove his eyes = 1) P 2) S 3) E
1) haughtiness
2) relied on himself too much
3) approach others for help - too proud to ask for help
4) los independence
Physically - lose his eyes which is hsi greatest strength and weakness
Spiritually - not obligated to do mitzvos
Emo - lost status of being shofat- can never lead Jewish ppl he had blemish
Grind in prison meaning (2) simple and deep (parallel)
1) back breaking labor
2) the men would bring their wives to shimshon so their wives would get impregnated from him with the hopes of having strong babies
Parallels with his prioritizing his desire for pleasure
Now he is forced to use his desire in a demeaning manner
What happened after his hair was cut off
It began to grow back
Why is it important to know that shimshons hair started to grow back
It’s not necessarily the actions that make one holy
But the motivation - connections to HaShem - foo it w a motivate - you what to think what makes u holy
It wasn’t his hair that necessarily made him strong but him reconnecting with HaShem in his yrs of prison
Now he’s looking for HaShem
Striving for the connection despite the circumstances
Head full of hair = full of spiritual ruchnious
Hair grows back = the circumstances he is loooking to HaShem connection
Hair grows back =
Despite the circumstances
He is looking to HaShem to gain strength
Growth connection. - Kedushah - which comes from the growth
Hair symbols Shimshons growth
What did the generals of the plishtim do when gathered together
Sang praise to their avodah Zara and were happy
Saying our god gave shimshon our enemy into our hands
The nation saw the….
What did they do
Avodah Zara
Praised it
“Bc of u our gd who gave our enemy into our hands who had destroyed our land and had caused much destruction
Shimshons perspective
Lesson
Feels like everything he did was for nothing
His goal of infiltrating the plishtim don’t work - being able to bring HaShems name into the work and it failed
His eyes got gauged out and hesin prison listening to the plishtim praise their gd w excitement thinking they beat HaShem
DONT GIVE UP SEE BIGGER PIC NEVER FOR NOTHING
And it was when …..
And what did they say
And do
Their hearts were happy
Let’s call after shimshon and we will laugh at him
And they called for Shimshons from the prison and they laughed before him
And. They placed him both the pillars
Shimshon is abt to
If everything
Reconnection with
Shimshon
Overcome everything - imprisonment broke him spiritually physically no emotionally
Is taken away from u u will still have. Ur thoughts
HaShem will build him up again
Built himself up
He got knocked down but he is able to do teshuva and build himself up
What did shimshon say to the boy holding his hand
And what did he do
Let me lean against the pillars that the building is standing on
He did it
The house was full with
Watching what
The men and women
The officers of the plishtim
On the roof there were 3000 men and women.
The shimshon entertainment
Who does shimshon call out to
What does he say
HaShem
My master HaShem remember me pls and strengthen me for pls
Just this one time
And let me take revenge with the merit of one of my eyes against the plishtim
FINALLY FINDS HASHEM
אלוקים
רחמים
Judgement
Mercy
Shimshon is calling out to hashem using all his names
זכרנו נא
Remember me - remember what
Remember the 20 years I shimshon judged bnaibyisrael as a shofat and I have never asked anything of them
נקם אחת משתי עיני
Let me take revenge with one if my eyes
His eyes were his problem
How could he be asking for something he sinned with
Save the MERIT of the other eye for OLAM HABA
How could he merit plan haba with his eyes - greatest strength and weakness
He sinned with them
HaShem doesn’t take a tally chart
Your bad doesn’t define you or disregard the good you’ve done
The weakness of shimshon doesn’t discredit the good he has done
Idea: about yetzer hara
Usually it targets ur greatest strength to make it look like a weakness but really it is targeting your weakness which has more strength
And shimshon ….
Grasped against the two pillars that were central in this temple
And leaned upon them
The one on his right and the one on his left
What does shimshon say
What does he do
Let me die with the plishtim
he leaned with his strength against the pillars in the house fell on all the generals and everyone there
those that were killed when Shimshon died was more than he killed during his life
Why did he kill himself
How/was he allowed to commit divide
Shimshon knew it was worth risking olam haba to prevent the chillel HaShem happening
He would fix it by making a hillel HaShem
To the show the plishtim hashems greatest strength
He did that by killing himself
He knew he would die anyways
He knew it was worth giving up a portion of his olam haba
In order to get close with HaShem and fix chillel HaShem - with kiddish HaShem
Who came up
What did they do
And. How long did shimshon rule for
His brothers and fathers house came up
They carried him picked him up and buried him
In the same cemetery as Manoach his father
OVER BNAIL YSIRAEL FOR 20 YRS
Context
POV of the plishtim
1) weren’t able to stop his family
2) they see the terrorists family get the terrorists body (shimshon
Halacha about a tzadik and his burial
So this shows bnai Yisrael that
1) cannot be buried next to a Rasha
He was buried next to Manoach (tzadik)
Shimshon was not a rasha
People make mistakes
If his body was able to be Carrie ethos shows that
The נס
That his body wasn’t destroyed HE JAD PILLARS FALL ON HIM
Why does it say 20 years at the end we already heard this (2)
1) he was a shofat for twenty years
And the impact (killing a lot of plishtim) he left caused the plishtim to rebuild for 20 years
2) plishtim never saw Shimshons body
They feared he would come back (fear lasted 20 years)
