Shimshon and the Philistines (Plishtim) By Yael Dworkin

concerning Shimon when we read about Shimon as zir said shtim is full of stories like what is going on here okay let's start with women especially with women his is it seems like he's got an issue with women and so we want to know how could he how could someone who's supposed to be sadik AET be involved with such Affairs that what K teach us it's the opposite of a sadik right so that's a good question any other questions yeah okay fabulous he's a he's a Naz uh from from Udo from in the womb and he seems like has everything going for him to be able to over any of The Temptations that he seems to fall into so what's up with that anything else those are the big questions those are the big questions right so yes he is a Chet yes he is in Chim if it got into the SE it means every generation has what to learn from it right because the the the stories that got into tanak uh are the ones relevant for all generations and we know that we're fighting a war in Azan now which is where his fall was that the big finale of Shimon when he brought the whole building down and and he's asking Hashem please allow me to take Nama from the Pim for what they did and uh and Hashem grants him he gives him again back the rues and everything everything uh topples on theim and and it was a great victory at the end of the book it says again uh you know there's a few chapters devoted for Shimon uh at the end of the first um stories that we read about him uh we're told that he ruled as a chaet for 20 years and then by the end of the 16th chapter at the end of the the conclusion of the the summation of the stories about him again it's repeated and kazal want to know why is it repeated and uh that he ruled that he ruled as a chaet for 20 years and the conclusion is uh as uh because the impression that he made especially on the p on the on the on the enemy camp was so profound that they continued to fear Him for 20 years after his Rule and so where do we see all of that in the stories like do right how do we understand his leadership do we see that he's followed by anybody or do his do his do his people accept him as a chaet from from your from the reading of the of the chapters do we read anything that he is AAU what do we notice he functions alone he's like a like a lone wolf like a lone will functioning and but what is this going into the enemy C marrying this woman say of course you can't assume uh that he didn't uh that he didn't convert them obviously he converted them but obviously was also for the reason of marriage so where's the Lem sh of these women that he's conver in to to get married and so the questions are great and what's going on and how could this happen to a person who was designated who as kadosh something M something set aside uh for K how could someone like that fall uh into the Affairs that we that he falls into and why if you remember when the first time Shimon comes to his parents and say I saw this woman in timat she looks good in my eyes I want to marry her what's the what is his parents reaction there aren't enough Jewish girls around here that you have to look at the sh from from Tim like what's going on here and uh you you which is a question as as readers pop into our head naturally but then right after that after his parents have their reaction what is the na'vi say what does seim say which was written by Sho and Navi what does it say there it was all from God and they didn't know and and the parents did not know that all of this was orchestrated by Hashem so that Shimon can have can somehow enter the enemy camp to to get back at theim for being so horrible to am Isel so there's a divine plan there you see and and the nvi himself is telling us that that was the plan so but then again the question is what kind of a plan is that it it seems like it's it's so embroiled in every step of the way what is this chaet doing he's a chaet where chaet how chaet what chaet this kind of leaders now what was the situation of am at this time right right okay the whole seph is no King but there's ups and downs in the in this roller coaster of of Amel sins Hashem sends them the sends them the animaly Emon to to to to get some sense into them to do chuva he sends them the chaet they do chuva they're okay for 40 80 years and then the whole cycle begins again and again and again again which was Wasa speaking about the the time period in this like 400 year period of the Chim or so or so uh the the situation of am the spiritual situation of am was was in a very very low state that they didn't even Merit a leader uh with a designation of a leader the leader that they needed to get to keep them going and not being obliterated by the by theim at that time which were the enemy that Hashem sent to put them into their place um you know they weren't worthy of any leader really so if they're not worthy of a leader because this is something the generation has to be worthy of then but Hashem doesn't forsake his people Hashem still has the best interest of am Israel so he's going to sneak in a leader that's not going to be recognized as a leader you follow that's shimon's R role he's a leader a lone wolf no followers no Army following him he himself with his gura is going to undo the enemy without even the recognition of his own people that that's what he's doing if you remember when he took avenge for something that like there was like a uh what no the lion was before this was a a testimony of his G A lot of people speak about shimon's physical strength the gur of Shimon but he was like beyond anything in terms of his R we'll see what Rashi says uh on the blessing of yov a to and he's from she that the whole of was all about in he understood oh my gosh mhia no less than mashiah is going to come from Dan and he had in mind Shimon we have to understand what's going on with SH we don't understand a thing just like we don't understand anything about Messiah we just because just as we don't understand anything of the unfolding history of the Jewish people how could this be a good thing and one second uh I want to I want to um uh dedicate the learning of course for the of of today they should do the job they should go into AA they should finish the job what what they say about he began the work of undoing the enemy but he wasn't given the opportunity to finish Theon of of uh concerning shim is he began the job he began but he didn't finish why didn't he finish why didn't he finish because the generation wasn't meritorious enough for the revelation of the Messiah of that time and when the Gen the generation has to Merit the finishing of the job and with those words this generation now with now in AA now in over there uh may they we Merit them to be able to finish the job and have and with that I want to give really to the that that the the intentions of Shimon of going into AA and going to do what he did then that that that they should Merit the Fulfillment of what he began it should finish now now you want to had a question before I go into the sources the judges in the judges be are before the Kings shim are before the Kings when when there was no Kings after schim then shvi comes and the people at that time the people at that time said we want we want a king towards the end of the book towards the end of the kufa the one that I think from the tri yes this is Dan I I I can't go there you're taking us off topic I'm sorry the time is very very limited okay I'm sorry we're all every speaker is given a just uh not so much time and so we we chose a topic and we have to like I have to okay so now so let's go to um are there any more notes okay so without further Ado okay so I mean the First Source that I brought is actually the of of um Shimon Shimon uh when right before he topples the whole house down on him and killing uh who did he kill at that point who was there 3,000 Spectators who were amongst the 3,000 Spectators all of the the heads uh the ministers uh the Army generals the Big Wigs the the the master headquarters of Kamas sorry of AA of Pim and he and they're all there right they're all there and with and and men and women aside from that and and this is his great and and he's asking hasem for uh to allow him uh that his last thing that he does with his life is take from the okay so he he's working alone he's got no Army he had to somehow figure out a way a plan to get into Pim they had to be uh the the the the the like why said the amist were not meritorious they were they were divided were divisive there's a vodar who knows what was going on at that point like they're sinful they're they're not in the best shape spiritual to Merit even a leader with a designation like a known like to be accepting of a leader he was a chaet but very disrespected and disregarded and um and but somehow the job had to be done somehow someone had to deal with the Poli team the way to get in is from a personal way uh somehow getting as a as an only person as a as a as an individual to enter into the enemy camp without arousing the anger of theim to say shim what he did to us cuz he did a lot of trouble for them right once he got in uh they're going to ascribe it to an individual person and his masas and not as a shal of Isel because if they would have perceived him as a shal of Isel then the would have wanted to take nakama revenge not only of him but also send send battalions into un ER is in and take revenge of them so he had to function in very ingenious very creative ways that made him seem like this guy is only about himself his Tia with women he has to get it and but really all of that was a ruse to get him there to undermine like a uh from within them to to use uh Tyas that they understood they understand lust and women and and and and all of the sort of stories that happened to him with the women and all of the uh betrayals of the plim against his wives and you know getting them to say his uh the secret of the riddles and and getting them to divulge all kinds of other information about him and then taking his intended wife and giving her to somebody else to get married and to to create a scenario of a person enraged over the injust personal Injustice to him so that he can then take revenge on them but in his mind he's not taking revenge for any personal affront to him this is a way to to fail a lot of enemies of Israel without arousing their anger against all of Israel this is an individual matter between Shimon and us you follow he's under cover he's under cover completely he's completely undercover so now these are the words that he says and there was a famous song that's put put to it and I I was hoping to finish in time to be able to I brought a Bluetooth to actually put the song on and dance with you also in the help of the of of tah today but in any case we we'll either get to it or we won't Source number one as you know his eyes after the Delila story uh his and they they cut off his hair which was the source of his gura uh his nut once you take that away so there's like a a removal of the the of was there we have to understand that it's such a complicated story um uh but he says I want to Revenge so the the English is here then Samson called to God oh Sovereign God please remember me and give me strength just this once oh God to take revenge of the Philistines if only for one of my two eyes that they gouged out why is he only asking for the Revenge of one eye that they took him why not both eyes um uh and who else do we know that says now what's he about to do by the way in this what's the next thing yeah and then what is that what did he do killed himself he killed himself it was a suicide mission to benefit CL Israel because he got rid of a lot of the heads of the state of of of Pim at that time uh and uh and with that instilled the fear of the rest of the P te that for 20 years after that shim did this he was he his impression the K the aut of Kad that he had made such an impression on them that they didn't dare start up with with the Jewish people for 20 years after Shimon died as he was a chaet for 20 years in life he continued to be that for 20 years after it's only after he died that everyone hoed what he was there for what he did what he did it was Mish forel and if his people didn't recognize him before because remember once he did the whole business with I'm sorry I'm going to I'm going to throw it and if you don't know go back and read the chapters from 13 to 16 concerning Samson but for those who who read the chapters he had to take he wanted to take revenge over this arrant of his wife being taken to and given to another man by her parents and all kinds of things and and and he promised them and they and also they got answers of riddles for them and he had to owe them a lot of uh money for this and he took revenge on upon them uh and and killed a lot of people at that time at at a certain point he had to flee and go back to and and meet up with him and they say what are you doing you want to get us all killed they didn't understand that he was working on their behalf that the whole reason he's there was to save them that any Revenge that the will want to take they'll understand it as as a lone person undercover not understanding that he's a there but and he doesn't tell them he's like oh okay I'm saving your life but you don't get it but that's okay by this act it's not bringing me down I'm still holding and his whole life Hashem was brought him to a place of was upon him the spirit of was upon him and then removed to get him to practice what it's like not to feel when Ru Hashem is there but why does he need to have R hasem not there with him why does he have to have because now the the next sources will understand okay what's going on with Dan what is she Dan about what was the of to Dan and how does this have to do with with Shimon so Source number two this is to on his death bed Dan shall govern his people as one of the tribes of Israel Dan shall be a serpent by the road a Viper by the path that bites the horse's heels so that his rid is thrown backward I wait for your deliverance Hashem very interesting that why is Yakov ainu ending his braa which is he doesn't do any other to any other shave every other shevet he speaks to in second person directly to the to the shevet that he's speaking to all of a sudden in the middle he's like he's turning to Hashem and saying I'm I'm I'm longing for your salvation Hashem yeah yeah okay that's that's uh on the way on the way a lot a lot more to it but yes so let's look at what Rashi says okay on uh we'll just go directly to the English just for to save time Dan will avenge his people uh Dan shall govern his people Rashi says that means he will avenge his people as one of the tribe of of Israel he will avenge his people from theim like when the okay he will avenge his people from Pim so when thatu is blessing Dan in his rues he sees the unfolding of all of history he sees this time period that there's going to be someone from Shan Shimon that scam going to avenge his people am Israel he and like one of the tri I'm continuing like one of the tribes of Israel all Israel will be like one with him in other words he singlehandedly will take on the job of all of theim and he will avenge them all concerning Shimon he uttered this prophecy we can also explain like the special one of the tribes namely David who came from Yehuda a reference to Messiah okay nowon about what is this thing called uh why is why is Dan compared to aash a Viper this is a snake and I say this given this apparation because it bites and you will because it bites and a snake also works alone he doesn't need any help from anybody else and he sneaks and the people are like he sne he sneaks he SLI on the ground he sneaks he bites and then the person dies that's Shimon he snuck into the enemy Camp into into no one is suspecting him that he has what else is going on and in the opportune moments he he he hits them with their with the poison and and he does away with them okay let's continue um the second which bites the horse's heels so so is the habit of a snake he Yakov Compares him Dan to a snake which bites a horse's heels and causes its Rider to fall backwards although it does not touch him we find some does not touch him does not touch who this what Shimon the the snake is not affected by by the by what he bit so too when Shimon goes into the enemy camp into Tuma into the realm of Tuma and clippa and women and that whole clippa and Tuma that it's involved goish women what are you talking about this Shimon had to go into such um places far from Kus to infiltrate that area in order to uproot the kipa the Tuma um um the threat of to coming from what's the best way to combat and obliterate the kipot T those of you who know some you go into the realm of kipot and T and from that place you undo it you it's a it's it's a dangerous thing to do if you're not Naki if you're not 100% clean from any um of that kipi if you don't if you're not tainted by the TAA yourself if you're completely clean if you're 100% Lem sh in your mission only such a s can go to that realm of kipa and do what he did not get affected by it and then undo the enemy from there and uh and and and come out still pure after that Affair this was done he like aash that goes into these places the Realms of of of of T of impurity and from there releases the the this is not a job for everybody this is a job for someone on the level of mhia that whose job is to turn the whole into into from the realm of the kipot that there's no place uh left not affected by the light of Hashem including all the Realms of Tuma so let's continue and Samson gasped uh okay and we find similar in the story of Shimon and shamson gassed the two pillars of the center and those on the roof died unus renders as the name of a species of snake who bites has no antidote and that is that it is called because it destroys everything okay now as you know what's the gatria of 358 the same gatria Asia okay and so Shimon who's likened to aash also has the job to undo the bite the effect of the other Nash that we know about from the story of Adam and Adam and and ganen if that's the if that's the primordial snake brought down the fall of Man our Nash and our story has a such a such a of spiritually speaking and it's reflected in the physical because the physical reflects the spiritual if he's that strong physically means he has a k at the root and source of it in in great High Realms of of he has a the ability to go down to that place the realm of Tuma and bring everything back to flip everything over and he is the of as opposed to the of T that brought down the whole story now for your salvation I hope why does say this he saw so after gets excited oh my gosh we found our mashiah and he's in shevan and his the the co of that is in Shimon but then he sees that he's going to die that he's not going to make it y but it's not going to happen oi it's not going to happen and at that point he says so if it's not there so we still have more to to um to hope for Hashem because Yeshua is not going to come from anything else other than you Hashem he saw that there his two eyes are going to be gouged out and at the end he's going to say for your salvation I hope oh Lord he Jacob prophecied that the would gouge out his eyes and he sh would ultimately say Hashem God remember me now and strengthen me now only this one and he's saying this once and I'm willing to sacrifice my life they no one knew what I was about when I'm alive I'm willing to die under this rebble with the enemies no one's going to know what I did I am now who does this remind you of Moshe Renu when he said to Hashem when he when Hashem said I'm going to wipe out the nation and start a new from you what does he say if that's the case hasem wipe me out from your book it's a another suicide mission the dolm of the leaders of the Jewish people they're willing to sacrifice their their everything just as long as it's about it's going to bring good to the to am Israel he was willing to die there uh forsaken there under the rubble you know it's not like what they have all the machines now to be able to find out uh the bodies and Rebels like what they needed to do but by the way the last final PUK about Shimon is um is that at the end after this happened everyone understood what was going on amist woke up oh my gosh he did this for us he did all of this for us after he finishes them off over there and his brothers and and his brothers and all his father's household came down and carried him and brought him up and buried him between uh and in the bearing place of man his father and he judged Israel 20 years after he dies he judged 20 years we spoke about that he continued his the influence that the magnitude of his self-sacrifice of what a chaet is he was recognized more after his death he was recognized after his death uh more between so they went down and they dug you know without any Machines of what we have today to F like under the rubble to find some remnants of his body to bring him to okay so now um what yeah we did that's the P what the P say uh Google it at that point okay okay but yes it's uh okay um now let's see okay how much time do I have left we have I have till 10:15 what the next speaker is 10:15 so I have 10 minutes O Okay okay so what do I what do what do I tell you now like there's a lot here um I'll have to tell you outside um you know I saw this girl she seems good in my eyes and they said what there's not enough Jewish girls around here that you have to go and then the navi says like I said like and they didn't know that it was all from God and and the gar they all say that's that's that's he was tainted with something of a GU there and that then and and because he's such a holy person is with then his his it it was the the gauging of the eyes are a reference this is what you sinned with this is what this is what's going to happen and now let's understand this he is aad he is Holy from womb right what that gave him was like a kadus like you you can't imagine his yet Sahara was nothing to him he was he was he was connected to at its source in the sual world so everything anything he wanted to do in this world he understood about himself that if I want it it means it's Lem sh it's coming from it must mean that Hashem wants me to so he wanted to eat and he wanted to be married and he wanted to be with a woman but if I want it it means that there's a Hashem behind it sh and he was so used to that his yet Sahar is like nothing his gor is so great that when he saw this woman in Tim he said yes if I want it it mean like he took a little bit too much credit for himself that Lem sham was a little bit missing because he took took he was all AEM sham but there was a bit something a smidgen of taking like I I'm taking too like how should I say this like uh you know what I'm trying to say maybe someone can help me like like I'm I'm I I'm I'm in the game and it and and if I knew it he he was he lost a little bit of the humility of of ascribing it to Hashem and he took credit for himself like if I it was a little bit off on the G a little bit off just a little bit but for someone who was so kados like like like Shimon that little bit is a lot now and and then the whole story of U fast forward of there's a few women involved in in his whole like story when you finally get to to to Delilah what's going on there why did he tell like she does he doesn't know that she wanted to get him she doesn't know that if he's going to tell her the secret of his strength that she's going to cut off his hair and why did he why did he make himself so vulnerable what is that about so so like this so so Ben it's like somewhere in the sources here so Ben and and others and also rler has a whole chapter on Shimon whole few pages on Shimon has a lot about him this this is coming now from R coin I didn't bring it in the sources he said like this Shimon his whole life he's he's devoting himself to Amel nobody knows about him and he's okay with that he's okay at a certain point because of this taint a little bit of GAA down the road with Thea and this whole game of Hashem sending the upon him and then removing it to make get him to practice how to be like this way on his own even when there's no because when you go down to the realm of kipot like Esther hamala at a certain point when she goes down to she understood I'm I'm alone here in this place of T andipa and she says because hem was not with her then and she had to dress her malus without the Divine Divine help shim was like that and and because he had to go to that realm where the's not going to be with him and he had to still be Shimon ha forel and he's saying my whole life I'm like I'm I have the of this extra dose of G because of hasem Rak says I want to now one time feel what it's like to go into like to understand to throw myself into the realm of Tuma and kipa and from that place must all the strength that I can against the enemy from that place so there was a bit of a of a downfall his eyes really did deceive him in terms of at a certain point um yes he was Lem sham he never lost the F the uh sight of why he's there but a little bit of his own self-interest got stuck into it it says he loved her it says he loved Delilah he really did love her and that kind of like but he he understood what he was going he was falling at the same time but at the same time the sh is there but he's he's getting involved and to go into that realm of clippa I guess that's what has to happen now to go down even further he's saying okay the source of my strength is my hair I'm going to divulge the divulge The Secret of my hair to Delila knowing very well that the that most likely he's going to wake up without it and it says and at that point he woke up and like he didn't realize that wasn't with him and he tried to get out of the chains and he couldn't and then they the whole story unfolds and they take him they take him in into God awful places and so when he says let's go to the first the PUK okay the First Source let's go back to his final words of when he's asking for to take avenge now at the lack of when I don't have my power from above with I want to m m Master up within me please hasm grant me as a regular human being without all of this kadus having to assist me help me in this time this time and I should take the Revenge of theim if only for one of my two eyes why one of my two eyes so let's look at uh so one of my eyes we have two eyes one eye who who says this now um okay look at that Source number eight remember me that 22 I don't know where the two extra two came in here but remember me this 20 years that I judged Israel and not once that I ask any of them to do any personal favor for me like move one like a a stick for me from here to there uh and and this is saying when I was when I I didn't ask any favor from anybody from Israel I didn't take advantage of anybody not for my position not if it would have been normal to ask uh for a cup of water or for anything I didn't do anything just like Shi also had that to him and also mosha Renu also had that now so for that eye yeah now why isn't he asking the uh for the other eye because maybe for that taint maybe for that self-interest of maybe looking at the woman from something from a personal place that's not exactly 100% sh okay another reason why you have to save me for the eyes people should see I please allow me grant me the privilege of taking revenge of the for what all of the trouble they're doing for for because if I don't get revenge and they get that two of my eyes what will they say what is it that that bribery blinds the eyes of the sadik right is that the P it's in then when AET if he takes bribes the punishment of that is Blindness because he didn't okay so there's stories I'm not going to bring you now but there's stories about a someone who was a Dian in in Amel and uh and he got and he got blinded with both his eyes and his prayer was uh Hashem they're going to think that I took bribes but you know that that's not why I got blinded but please take away my blindness so that they shouldn't there shouldn't be for every time that I judge it said they should think it's from that and hasem made a miracle and he and he got back as I said the is saying sh should die without avenging the for even one of my eyes because then they'll think that I took that I really functioned from a self- and all I did was just for myself and not for am Israel so allow me to take revenge that they should see the mysterious neish of what it means a leader for the Jewish people and my love and it's not about me because I I I'm willing to die here I don't have children I don't have a wife I'm I'm far from my homeland and but I'm willing to be buried under and lost under the rebel with the as long as I take avenge for Amel and so he's asking for The Avenge for one of his eyes and was he granted absolutely that's the the K of of and