After getting reassurance, Gideon prepares a meal and the angel sacrifices it on a rock, and Gideon builds an altar there.
While threshing wheat in a wine press, Gideon is confronted by an angel of the Lord and given a charge to deliver Am Yisrael from the Midyanites.
Midyan terrorizes Israel causing economic and psychological damage.
Devora ends her song of praise with a graphic description of Yael's killing of Sisera and the anguish of Sisera's mother worrying about her late-arriving son. We explore the Talmud which says that a lot more happened between Yael and Sisera than meets the eye
Devora continues in her song to describe the war victory and the execution of Sisera by Yael
Devora praises the tribes who stepped up and criticizes sharply those who didn't
Shir Devora sings a song of triumph and gives us a glimpse into what it was like for the children of Israel under oppression.
Sisera escapes from the battlefield into the tent of Yael, who kills him with a tent peg.
Explaining the miraculous victory over Sisera's army...
Devora tells Barak to go to war against Sisera.
During the days of Devora, the King of Hazor and Sisera, his captain of the host oppress Israel.
After escaping from Eglon's chamber, Ehud ben Gera rallies the Jewish forces to defeat the Moavite enemy.
After returning to the palace, Ehud ben Gera gets King Eglon alone and stabs him with his double-edged sword, and things get messy.
The enemy from Iraq attacks Israel from afar, with the first Judge, Otniel ben Kenaz to the rescue.
We examine the verses that the "Lord left the nations in order to test Israel, because they did not know the wars...." What does that mean?
The next generation after Joshua is tested
In this shiur, we explain the two "introductions" to the book of Judges and then the narrative goes on to explain how the Jewish People deteriorated spiritually
A prophet, who according to the sages was Pinchas, comes from the Gilgal to rebuke the children of Israel for not expelling the inhabitants of the land.
The prophet lists the tribes that failed to disinherit the local Canaanites from their portions. In this shiur, we bring sources to show hw the mitzvah to "drive out" supersedes the mitzvah "to dwell".