“Her father said, ‘I really thought you hated her altogether, so I gave her to your best man. But her younger sister — isn’t she even prettier? Why not take her instead?’  Shimshon said to them, ‘This time I’m through with the P’lishtim! I’m going to do something terrible to them!’”-Judges 14:2-3 Samson was a […]

Today we begin Judges Chapter 15. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click HERE. For the King James Version, click HERE. “But after a while, during the wheat-harvest season, Shimshon went to see his wife. He brought a young goat for her and said to her father, “I want to go to my wife in her […]

“Then the Spirit of Adonai came over him powerfully. He went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their good clothes, and gave them to the men who had “solved” the riddle. He was boiling with rage, so he went straight up to his father’s house, and his wife was given to the […]

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 […]