Saul
What was a special characteristic Saul had?
What changed Samuel's mind about having a king?
God told Samuel that it would be a good idea, and that the matter wasn't about him, it was about God.
What is גלגל החטא, and what are the levels?
It is the continuing cycle of Bnai Yisrael's חטאים- the cycle being: חטא, עונש, תשובה, געולה,שקט.
Who was the first Shofet?
Ahud Ben Gera
What is Saul doing when we first meet him?
He is searching for his fathers אתונות.
Bnai Yisrael treated the ארון הברית like a magic good-luck charm to win a battle, and they lose it to the plishtim. What did they misunderstand about God's presence?
They misunderstood that God holiness is not in an object like ארון הברית or like an idol.
What is the extra level that sometimes shows up in גלגל החטא?
תוכחה
How many main shoftim that we learned were there?
five
Who convinced Saul to not turn around but to go the city with the ראוה/איש האלוהים?
Who was the only Shofet that didn't door anything wrong?
Devorah
Who was the נביא that Saul met?
Shmuel
When Shmuel was a child what did his mothers vow obligate him to do?
To serve in the mishkan for his whole life, and become a Nazir.
What is special about songs in the Tanakh?
They are always very very old much before the time that they are showed in the Tanakh.
What were the names of all the main shoftim that we learned?
Ehud, Devorah, Gideon, Yiftach, and Shimshon.
What do the מילות מנחות in פרק ט show us about Saul's future?
It shows us that Saul will rise from being nobody to being an important leader- a king.
His sons also became bad like חפני and פנחס.
What were the five main cities of the plishtim?
Gat, Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Ekron
Why did the Shoftim system not work?
It didn't work because the Shoftim only showed up in time of war, and there wasn't a consistent leader the rest of the time.
What was the most important line of shoftim that concluded the book?
"בימים ההם אין מלך בישראל איש הישר בעיניו יעשה"