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Judges represents, one might say, the Wild West era of the biblical story\u2026.There are warriors who can toss a stone from a slingshot at a hair and not miss; a bold left-handed assassin who deftly pulls out a short sword strapped to his right thigh to stab the Moabite king in the soft underbelly; another warrior-chieftain who panics the enemy camp in the middle of the night with the shock and awe of piercing ram's horn blasts and smashed pitchers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All this is certainly exciting in a way that is analogous to the gunslinger justice of the Wild West, but there is an implicit sense, which becomes explicit at the end of the book, that survival through violence, without a coherent and stable political framework, cannot be sustained and runs the danger of turning into sheer destruction. In the first chapter of the book, before any of the Judges are introduced, we are presented with the image of the conquered Canaanite king, Adoni-Bezek, whose thumbs and big toes are chopped off by his Judahite captors. This barbaric act of dismemberment, presumably intended to disable the king from any capacity for combat, presages a whole series of episodes in which body parts are hacked, mutilated, crushed. King Eglon's death by Ehud's hidden sword is particularly grisly: his killer thrusts the weapon into his belly all the way up to the top of the hilt, and his death spasm grotesquely triggers the malodorous release of the anal sphincter. Women are also adept at this bloody work: there is a vividly concrete report of how Jael drives the tent-peg through the Temple of Sisera the Canaanite general and into the ground; another woman, this one anonymous, smashes the head of the nefarious Abimelech with a millstone she drops on him from her perch in a besieged tower\u2026The grand finale of Samson's story, in which thousands of Philistine men and women, together with the Israelite hero, are crushed by the toppling temple, is an even more extensive crushing and mangling of bodies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against this background, one can see a line of imagistic and thematic continuity from the maiming of Adoni-Bezek at the very beginning of the book to the dismembering of the concubine at the end [see chapter 19]. That act of chopping a body into pieces, of course, is intended as a means to unite the tribes against Benjamin and its murderous rapists, but there is a paradoxical tension between the project of unity \u2013 unity, however, for a violent purpose \u2013 and the butchering of the body, the violation of its integrity, which in the biblical world as in ours was supposed to be respected through burial\u2026 After this dark impasse to which the Book of Judges comes, it will be the task of the next great narrative sequence, which is the Book of Samuel, concluding in the second chapter of 1 Kings, \u00a0to imagine a political means to create a center and lease the anarchy. That goal is in part realized, but\u2026 the blood-dimmed tide is never stemmed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, pp. 80-81<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Book of Judges, following immediately after the Book of Joshua, leaves no doubt about its predicament. \u201cAfter the death of Joshua,\u201d the Book opens. When we closed the previous Book, the conquest seemed complete. The tribes were occupying their rightful places, the enemy had been vanquished, Joshua had retired as a lauded and successful warrior, and died peacefully in his own bed. It is a bit of a rude awakening that the new book opens with unraveling and with crisis. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tribes of Israel, apparently, have not yet completed their assignment. Amorites, Canaanites and others still hold much of the land, and the Israelites are soon to be taken to task for not having taken the land and established peace. A new cycle emerges: oppressed by their enemies, the Israelites call out in fear and suffering. A new chieftain (or judge) emerges from one tribe or another, the people come together in confederation to repulse the new enemies, and then everyone goes home. Eventually, old habits revive and Israelites fall away from a life of covenant, only to strengthen their enemies for another round. Enemies, Judges, conflict and elusive peace: these are the recurrent cycles of the Book of Judges.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So what are we to learn from all the Book of Judges?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That molding a people around a high standard isn\u2019t something that happens once and for all. The Children of Israel, like all people, need regular schooling in decency, law, and justice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the fact that they will backslide doesn\u2019t mean we have to abandon hope. They also can be inspired to come together, to try again, to turn the tide on their erroneous ways and their evil choices.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The power of repentance and renewal offer an antidote to habit, indifference, and the temptation to be like everyone else, to just let it slide. We can, like our ancestors in this remarkable book, rally around mindfulness and intentionality. We can choose who we are going to become, and that can have consequences for how our lives will play out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, this extraordinary book teaches that there is no single great leader who can clean things up forever. Instead, we can look to new generations of leaders who will meet the challenges of their day, and then get out of the way so that a succeeding generation of leaders can do so in turn. 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  1. After the death of Joshua, the Children of Israel seem very concerned with finding a pragmatic military leader, rather than seeking a long term stable leader like Joshua and Moses. What motivates them to make that choice?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Why doesn\u2019t Joshua appoint a new leader before he dies? How does this choice affect the nation going forward?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Is there evidence in this chapter for unity? What about for discord? How do we reconcile this competing evidence in our understanding of the narrative?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. In Joshua, the mission to conquer Israel seems to be completed, but when we start the new book, we find out that there is still more to accomplish. Furthermore, in the wake of Joshua\u2019s death, the nation seems to embrace his conquering mission and continue his legacy. What does this show about Joshua\u2019s leadership and the nation at this time?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The author makes a point of detailing cities where the original inhabitants remained and were not forced to move, instead of simply not mentioning these cities as they were not relevant to the mission. What is the point of mentioning these cities and how does this influence our understanding of the nature of the war the Children of Israel are fighting?<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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    Under Joshua\u2019s leadership, the Israelites conquered the land and divided it by tribe. Unlike Moses, Joshua died leaving no successor. Over the book of Joshua, God moved further into the background, still involved, caring, guiding, but leaving the people to make their own military and land allotment decisions. Now they must establish themselves, with some sort of governance, or not, in the land. On a first read of Judges, it looks like our ancestors did a terrible job. The book moves from one disaster to another, one moment of forsaking God, following after other gods to the next, culminating in a gruesome, bloody event that led to the brink of civil war (chapters 19-21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Like the news today, the episodes recorded are the most graphic and tumultuous. Between the stories, the number of years is recorded, usually decades, when nothing happened worth reporting. Each time God rescued the people they indeed returned to God\u2019s ways for a couple of generations. We have no record of what life was like in those times.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Throughout the book the refrains, \u201cand the people had no king\u201d and \u201ceach one did what was right in their own eyes,\u201d mark the end of a period of peace and doing right in the eyes of God and are the harbinger of a time when right in the people\u2019s eyes and in God\u2019s eyes do not jive. God causes a military or other defeat, the people call out to God, ask forgiveness and promise to do better. God accepts and relieves their suffering.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The shoftim - leaders, judges \u2013were regional or tribal leaders, not national ones. They have widely different strengths, weaknesses and missions. We meet Deborah (4-5), Gideon (6-7). Yiftah (11-12), Samson (13-16) and others. Some were upstanding leaders, others were ruffians, all of them designated by God to lead the people out of their current danger and back toward godliness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What did this tell our ancestors (and us)?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    • When the people are in trouble, most often from straying from God, God will save them.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    • Anyone can serve God. Who God chooses to lead is a mystery.<\/li>\r\n\t
    • Who God chooses reflects the people and qualities they recognize as strength and leadership<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n

      In the desert, the Israelites learned to be a nation, there was little distinction or fighting among the tribes. Mostly, the nation traveled, complained to God, built the Mishkan and fought enemies collectively. Now, they must learn to become a nation in the land. There were no models in our history, nor in those of the other peoples in the land of Israel for multi-tribe nationhood. The Temple, a uniting entity, was decades in the future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The period of the Shoftim\/Judges was a time of learning to be a sovereign nation, divided by tribe, but also united under God; learning, as we are still doing, what it means to do right in our eyes and God\u2019s, as a nation and individuals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      Rav Adda, son of Rabbi \u1e24anina, said: 'Had Israel not sinned in earlier times they would have been given the five books of the Torah and the book of Joshua alone. They needed the book of Joshua because it includes the arrangement of Eretz Yisrael' (Nedarim 22b).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      From the moment that Moses stepped up to confront Pharaoh in Egypt, the Israelites have had two leaders: first Moses, then Joshua. Moses brought the nascent nation out of Egypt. He shepherded a collection of slaves into the people of Israel. Seamlessly, he transferred his leadership to Joshua. The people knew Joshua from early on. He was the hero of the desert battle with Amalek. He was on Mount Sinai with Moses. He confronted the spies. He protected Moses\u2019s reputation against Eldad and Medad. He wasn\u2019t just Moses' successor, he was with Moses and the people the whole way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      When Joshua died, though, there was no one to take over for him. Now things begin to splinter. A cycle begins wherein the people misbehave, God gets angry and punishes them by bringing in a local nation to harass them. The people repent and cry out to God. God sends a \u201cjudge\u201d to save the people. The people are peaceful for a little while, but then the cycle begins again. Wash, rinse, repeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The quote from Nedarim above implies that the story was meant to end with the death of Joshua. Once the great leaders of the Exodus ushered the people into the promised land and divided it accordingly, God\u2019s promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would be complete. The people would live in the land peacefully. But that\u2019s not what happened. The people sinned with the Golden Calf, and the spies, and continued to sin. Because the story was meant to end, there was no third leader waiting in the wings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      But what about Caleb? Caleb\u2019s story is repeated here from Joshua chapter 14 and 15. Caleb was the last surviving person from the wilderness. Like Moses and Joshua he was known to the people. But the Caleb story is repeated here because it shows that Caleb was not a leader of the whole people. Caleb was a leader of the tribe of Judah. He acted in the self-interest of that tribe, as he was supposed to do. After Joshua, there did not need to be a leader of everyone. Each tribe should have acted as they needed to in their land. Unfortunately, that plan did not work out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Instead of the story ending with chapter 24 of Joshua, the book of Judges begins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      The Book of Judges opens just like the Book of Joshua did: with the death of a beloved long-time leader and the nation facing the prospect of moving forward bereft of inspired and inspirational guidance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Unlike the previous instance, however, this time there is no leader-in-waiting. Moses had groomed Joshua to succeed him (although his appointment also required divine approval), but Joshua had not done the same. Joshua was first succeeded by anonymous elders \u201cwho were acquainted with all the deeds God had performed for Israel\u201d (24:31) \u2014arguably, a reference to members of the generation that had reached the age of twenty after the failed mission of the scouts (see Numbers 14:29 ff.)\u2014and there is an allusion to the continuation of the \u201cold guard\u201d in the reference to Eliezer, son of Aaron, the High Priest (Joshua 24:33), but no single individual came forward to assume command.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Hence, God appointed a collective leadership: the tribe of Judah (v.2), which was reluctant to operate independently and, instead, called on its brother tribe of Simeon to share the leadership role (v.3). Curiously, while the chapter goes on to detail Judah\u2019s military successes as well as those of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, it makes but passing reference to Simeon\u2019s conquest of Safed, after which that tribe essentially disappears from the balance of biblical history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Given the collective nature of the leadership post-Joshua, it is somewhat incongruous that the Book of Judges, as its very name implies, features lone leaders. 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      In Judges 1, Judah attempts to rectify Moses\u2019 omission, when the latter failed to bestow an explicit blessing upon the descendants of Simeon: <\/span>\u201c<\/b>May Reuben live and not die\u2026 And this he said of Judah: Hear, God, the voice of Judah\u2026 And of Levi he said: Let Your Thummim and Urim be with Your faithful one\u2026\u201d (Deut. 33:6-8).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Judah then said to their brother-tribe Simeon, \u201cCome up with us to our allotted territory and let us attack the Canaanites, and then we will go with you to your allotted territory.\u201d So Simeon joined them (Jud. 1:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Judah\u2019s overture to the tribe of Simeon is given additional context when considering why Moses juxtaposed Reuben and Judah\u2019s blessings, despite the birth order listed clearly in Gen. 29:32-5. Rashi on Deut. 33:7 states:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      He (<\/span>Moses<\/span><\/i>) mentioned Judah immediately after Reuben, because both of them made confession of the wrong that was theirs, as it is said, (Job 15:18-19) \u201cBecause wise men have told their sins \u2026 unto them alone (<\/span>the land was given<\/span><\/i>) and no stranger passed amidst them\u201d \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      This builds on several earlier traditions, involving scandalous unfulfilled commitments, incest, and public embarrassment:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Throughout those forty years that the children of Israel were in the wilderness, Judah\u2019s bones were rattling in the coffin (<\/span>as a result of the curse that he had sworn to Jacob regarding Benjamin\u2014Gen. 43:9,<\/span><\/i>) until Moses stood and entreated God to have mercy upon him. Moses said before Him: Master of the Universe! Who caused Reuben to confess (Gen. 35:22)? It was Judah. Judah\u2019s confession to his sin with Tamar (Gen. 38:26) led Reuben to confess to his own sin. Moses continued (Deut. 33:7): \u201cAnd this is for Judah\u2026hear God, the voice of Judah\u201d (Makkot 11b).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Perhaps Judah felt that, like Reuben, he could inspire Simeon to also confess previous crimes, but, alas, it was not to be. The tribe of Simeon progressively shrank in size, became little more than an enclave within the land of Judah, and was finally exiled to Babylon where it lost any remaining unique aspects of its original identity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      The book of Judges opens with a question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying: 'Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites...?' (1:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The previous book started after a leader\u2019s death, too. But then it was God, and not Joshua, who initiated the conversation. The fact that the Israelites take charge and initiate the next step in their story, not to mention that they do so as a group and not under the guidance of an individual leader, is exciting. It seems to herald the dawn of a new stage in our history, were we the people can be the authors of our fate. (I'm indebted to Yael Ziegler,\u00a0Ruth: from Alienation to Monarchy<\/em>, for this point).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Against this grand backdrop, it is easy to interpret the Israelites\u2019 question as a quest for leadership: \u201cwho shall go up first,\u201d they ask. Who will lead us forward in this exciting time, we hear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      But the rest of the chapter makes it clear that this wasn\u2019t their intention. The Israelites interpret God\u2019s answer that \u201cJudah shall go up\u201d (Judges 1:2) strictly as a matter of chronological order. Not until King David will the tribe of Judah take responsibility for all the Israelites. For now, Judah deals with its lands first, then leaves most of the other tribes to deal with theirs in turn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      They fail, with disastrous consequences. The children of Israel learn idolatrous practices from the Canaanites they failed to vanquish, and God retaliates by allowing other nations to subjugate them. The community who collectively asked \u201cwho shall go up first\u201d collapses into separate tribes, too weak to defend themselves. Instead of taking charge of their own destiny, they are locked into a vicious cycle of idolatry-subjugation-redemption, where individual leaders save them, but by God\u2019s initiative and command.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Perhaps the seeds of this tragedy lie in the narrow interpretation the Israelites gave to their own opening question. They asked as a collective, but were concerned with their divisions, not with their united role. Instead of asking \u201cwho should lead us as we step up to the mission of our age\u201d they asked who should toil first. Their later divisions and weakness were a natural consequence of this mindset. By failing to see the promise of their own potential, they doomed themselves to fail at living up to it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The book of Judges revisits the Israelites\u2019 question towards its ending, where the people ask again \u201cWho shall go up for us first\u201d (Judges 20:18). This second repetition brings the question\u2019s undertones of divisiveness into sharp relief, because the Israelites ask it in a gathering where they are \u201c knit together as one man, friends\u201d (Judges 20:11)\u2026 and preparing to eradicate one of the Israelite tribes. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

      The Israelites\u2019 failure to see themselves as a united nation in the beginning of Judges reaches, then, its natural culmination: the Israelites step up - to tear themselves to shreds.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":54943,"alt":"","title":"jud1-ascend","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Disconnections, Part 1","tile_main_caption":"Who Shall Go Up First?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"By failing to see the promise of their own potential, they doomed themselves to fail at living up to it","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":54943,"alt":"","title":"jud1-ascend","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud1-ascend-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Judges","chapter":"1","chapter_main_number":"212","date":"20260622","wall_id":"212"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"594","name":"Unity","old_id":"994"},{"term_id":"792","name":"Tribes","old_id":"1192"}]},{"order":12,"id":"54922","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Kenaz and the Twelve Precious Stones ","post_title":"Kenaz And The Twelve Precious Stones","slug":"kenaz-and-the-twelve-precious-stones","old_id":"54922","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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      The Book of Judges opens with an ominous question: \u201cAfter the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the Lord, \u2018Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?\u2019\u201d (Judges 1:1). In the extended answer to this request, we are told: \u201cAnd Caleb said, \u2018I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriat Sefer\u2019. Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb\u2019s younger brother, conquered it. So, Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage\u201d (verses 12-13). Scripture tells us little more about Kenaz (see also Joshua 15:17, 1 Chronicles 4:13, 15 and compare Genesis 36:11, 15, 42 where there is mention of an apparently earlier individual named Kenaz). But the very paucity of information about this little-known biblical figure, seems to have inspired the Jewish imagination to weave a wonderfully rich legend around him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      In a work known as the Biblical Antiquities (Pseudo-Philo), composed originally in Hebrew in the first century CE, we find an extended narrative about Kenaz (Chapters 25-28). After the death of Joshua (Joshua 1:1), Kenaz became prince over Israel. In order to insure victory in the coming battles against the remaining Canaanite enemy, Kenaz first purged sinners from among the Israelite tribes. Among them were the tribe of Dan, who had taught their children out of the forbidden books of the Amorites, which they had hidden under Abraham\u2019s mountain (see Genesis 22:2). Similarly, the tribe of Asher had hidden under Mount Shechem seven golden idols called by the Amorites the \u201choly nymphs\u201d. These idols were encrusted with precious stones, which radiated light, making night as bright as day. Kenaz burnt all the sinful possessions of the Israelites at the River Pishon (see Genesis 2:11-12 on the River Pishon that encompasses the Land of Havilah \u201cwhere there is crystal and onyx\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

      But the Amorite books and the idols of precious stones remained unscathed by fire or water. So, Kenaz placed them on an altar. God sent down heavenly dew upon the books obliterating what was written in them. Then God sent forth lightning to destroy what was left. At God\u2019s command, an angel cast the seven jewel encrusted idols to the bottom of the sea, where the deep swallowed them up. Another angel brought down from heaven twelve other gems, on which were engraved the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of the Israelite tribes. Kenaz set these precious stones in the Ephod (the outer garment of the High Priest), together with the twelve stones on the Hoshen (Breast-Plate) (see Exodus 28:15-29). \u00a0Finally, Kenaz deposited the twelve precious stones he had received from the angel in the Holy Ark -- together with the Tablets of the Covenant \u2013 \u201cwhere they illumined the earth like the midday sun \u2026 and they are there to this day\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      The book of Judges picks up immediately following the death of Joshua, with the Israelites asking God, what\u2019s next? Until now, rarely did Moses or Joshua have to ask such a question, as God proactively provided them with instructions to carry out. But now, with no national leader at the helm, the Israelites are looking for a plan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      Throughout the book of Joshua and its recounting of battles with victories and failures, the entire nation of Israelites fought as one. The verses that begin the Book of Judges detail the individual tribal conquests and their outcomes, beginning with Judah. Judah goes first but has a proposal for his brother Simeon: you come to battle by my side, and when we\u2019re victorious, I\u2019ll come with you. The plan works, and together they conquer a great deal of land. Benjamin is next, with unfavourable results, followed by the Tribe of Joseph. Remember that Joseph is comprised of two tribes: Ephraim and Manasseh\u2013 and they were victorious in Beth-El. Manasseh was subsequently defeated with further individual attempts at conquest, followed with similar losses by the rest of the tribes. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

      It is interesting to note that the only victories achieved were by tribes working in pairs: Judah and Simeon, and Ephraim and Manasseh. Each tribe that went solo failed to complete their conquest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

      According to tradition, the Book of Judges was written by the prophet Samuel, who was instrumental, almost 360 years after these events, in the transition from the tribal nation led by judges to a statehood ruled by kings. Prophecy is usually about foreshadowing events, but if Samuel wrote this Book, then it was done so as a retrospective: a review and analysis, or debrief of sorts, to better understand this physically, militarily and spiritually tumultuous period in Jewish history. In this sometimes-painful examination of events, Samuel begins with this introduction of the landscape of heavy defeat. 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      This anarchic approach to leadership continues throughout the book of Judges, as leaders rise up, attain prestige and power through military success, and eventually die, leaving a power void for another charismatic leader to fill. In a way, this anarchy is a welcome change: suddenly, leadership seems to be a meritocratic enterprise rather than a genealogical presumption. But as the book of Judges continues, it becomes clear that this form of leadership is not sustainable; the tribes fall apart, warring with one another and sinning in violent and disturbing ways. We must wait until the book of Samuel before Israel will unite again. In the meantime, sit back, relax, and enjoy the rollercoaster of ups and downs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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