Archives for January 2022

Barak answered her: “If you go with me, I’ll go; but if you won’t go with me, I won’t go.” She replied, “Yes, I will gladly go with you; but the way you are doing it will bring you no glory; because Adonai will hand Sisra over to a woman.”–Judges 4:8-9 Barak receives his divine […]

“She sent for Barak the son of Avino‘am, from Kedesh in Naftali, and said to him: ‘Adonai has given you this order: ‘Go, march to Mount Tavor, and take with you 10,000 men from the people of Naftali and Z’vulun. I will cause Sisra, the commander of Yavin’s army, to encounter you at the Kishon […]

“She sent for Barak the son of Avino‘am, from Kedesh in Naftali, and said to him: “Adonai has given you this order: ‘Go, march to Mount Tavor, and take with you 10,000 men from the people of Naftali and Z’vulun.  I will cause Sisra, the commander of Yavin’s army, to encounter you at the Kishon […]

“Now D’vorah, a woman and a prophet, the wife of Lapidot, was judging Israel at that time.  She used to sit under D’vorah’s Palm between Ramah and Beit-El, in the hills of Efrayim; and the people of Israel would come to her for judgment.”-Judges 4:4-5 There’s one characteristic that makes Devorah unique and separates her […]

As I mentioned yesterday, beginning with the judge Devorah, the action now shifts to the Israelite tribes located in the northern regions of Canaan. Before Devorah, all the battles we were dealing with took place in the south. Which means up until that point in time, all of Israel’s enemies were also located in the […]