Perek Tes Zayin כא To לא

Question 1

When the plishtim got shimshon what were the things they did to him (3)

Answer 1

1) gauges out his eyes
2) brought him to Gaza
3) shackled him in bronze Chains and made him grind in prison

Question 2

They brought his down to Gaza which was …..

Answer 2

His place where destruction began

Question 3

Gauged out his eyes
Eyes =
Which is
How is it those things

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Desire = 
Who did shimshon rely on too much? 
What didn’t he do? 
Remove his eyes =
1) P
2) S
3) E

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Grind in prison meaning (2) simple and deep (parallel)

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What happened after his hair was cut off

Answer 6

It began to grow back

Question 7

Why is it important to know that shimshons hair started to grow back

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Hair grows back =

Answer 8

Despite the circumstances
He is looking to HaShem to gain strength
Growth connection. - Kedushah - which comes from the growth
Hair symbols Shimshons growth

Question 9

What did the generals of the plishtim do when gathered together

Answer 9

Sang praise to their avodah Zara and were happy

Saying our god gave shimshon our enemy into our hands

Question 10

The nation saw the….

What did they do

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Shimshons perspective

Lesson

Answer 11

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

Question 12

And it was when …..
And what did they say
And do

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Shimshon is abt to
If everything
Reconnection with
Shimshon

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What did shimshon say to the boy holding his hand

And what did he do

Answer 14

Let me lean against the pillars that the building is standing on

He did it

Question 15

The house was full with

Watching what

Answer 15

The men and women
The officers of the plishtim
On the roof there were 3000 men and women.
The shimshon entertainment

Question 16

Who does shimshon call out to

What does he say

Answer 16

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

Question 17

אלוקים

רחמים

Answer 17

Judgement
Mercy
Shimshon is calling out to hashem using all his names

Question 18

זכרנו נא

Remember me - remember what

Answer 18

Remember the 20 years I shimshon judged bnaibyisrael as a shofat and I have never asked anything of them

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Save the MERIT of the other eye for OLAM HABA

Question 20

How could he merit plan haba with his eyes - greatest strength and weakness
He sinned with them

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Idea: about yetzer hara

Answer 21

Usually it targets ur greatest strength to make it look like a weakness but really it is targeting your weakness which has more strength

Question 22

And shimshon ….

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does shimshon say

What does he do

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Why did he kill himself

How/was he allowed to commit divide

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Who came up
What did they do
And. How long did shimshon rule for

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Context

POV of the plishtim

Answer 26

1) weren’t able to stop his family

2) they see the terrorists family get the terrorists body (shimshon

Question 27

Halacha about a tzadik and his burial

So this shows bnai Yisrael that

Answer 27

1) cannot be buried next to a Rasha
He was buried next to Manoach (tzadik)
Shimshon was not a rasha
People make mistakes

Question 28

If his body was able to be Carrie ethos shows that

Answer 28

The נס

That his body wasn’t destroyed HE JAD PILLARS FALL ON HIM

Question 29

Why does it say 20 years at the end we already heard this (2)

Answer 29

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)