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Episode 10 - An Epilogue: The Book of Judges in Retrospect

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Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein

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The Book of Judges uncensored episode 10, the grand finale. So yesterday we spoke, we finished off the story of Shimshun, the death of Shimchun, what happened to Shimchun when he was in jail. They poked out his eyes and they he ended up bringing down the pillars and killing a bunch of Philistines with him. So before we go on to looking at what happened after Shimshon, I just wanted to focus a little bit on Shimshun and pull out some ideas that are related to Shimshon and the next stage after the to Shimshon and the next stage after the next after the judges is going to be the stage of the Malus of the kingdom. So the connection between Shimshon the judge and the possibility of Malus of kingdom afterwards. There's a medish in braces. It says that Yakovino on his deathbed saw a prophecy with Shimshon. He saw a Nva. He saw Shimshun in his prophecy and Yakov thought that ah this prophecy and Yakov thought that ah this person Shimshan is Messiah. He thought that Shimchun was going to be Mashiach. And then when the whole story played out, he saw that no Shimshan ends up dying in this tragic way. So Shimshin is not Msiah. But what we see here is that Jacob had what we would call that maybe that shim is supposed to be Msiah. Can't he still be what can't he still be? He would come back to life or alive person and then he disappeared or die. We don't want to get into that. I'm just

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  1. 0:01The Book of Judges uncensored episode 10, the grand finale. So yesterday we spoke, we finished
  2. 5:43Miriam was one of the ancestors of Malik and Bit Salah was Miriam's grandson. Yeah. Great
  3. 11:55using it's using interesting imagery of blinding the eyes of the wise. Like why blinding their
  4. 18:10first Bdash, the destruction of the second B of mdash and the destruction of Mishkan Shilo.
  5. 23:56forefathers up from the land of Egypt. And now stand erect and I shall enter into
  6. 31:15actually Torah. His his his ability of um to study Torah well and his ability to
  7. 37:57What's your name? Uh Rabbi. Very good. See, he taught you how to think. Well, so
  8. 43:34to the tribe of Yehuda he says shave it the scepter shall will never leave Yehuda
  9. 49:47Shim and if you look closely at the over there so it says that this is
  10. 56:09says and then giddon starts talking to the angel asked like why isn't hashem saving the

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