Archives for July 2022

It’s actually a mistake to call the girl that Samson married his wife. Yeah, I know that last sentence makes about as much sense as me saying “A martian ate a purple Big Mac while reading the New York Times on Sagittarius day”. So let me explain. The Hebrew word that’s being translated into wife […]

Women instinctively know how to use tears as a weapon. There was a girl I used to see and when I did something she strongly disliked, she’d turn on the tears. I’d sit there as if my legs had been cut off from underneath me. It’s one of those few situations where you feel truly […]

“Out of the eater came food; out of the strong came sweetness.” -Judges 14:14 So Samson lays out his riddle to his wedding guests. He tells them…“Out of the eater came food; out of the strong came sweetness”. Obviously this refers to the lion Samson tore apart and from whose body he took honey that […]

“Shimshon said to them, ‘Let me present you with a riddle. If you can solve it within the seven days of the banquet and tell me the solution, I will give you thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of good clothes.  But if you can’t solve it, you give me thirty linen shirts and thirty […]

“His father went down to the woman, and there Shimshon gave a banquet — this is what the young men used to do. When the P’lishtim saw him, they provided thirty companions to be with him.”-Judges 14:10-11 It’s WEDDING time! Except this was a  wedding that never should have been. In verse 10, we’re told the […]