One of the most enigmatic characters in the entire Hebrew Bible is the one who figures in the traditional haftarah for this Shabbat. I am talking about Samson, known in the Hebrew Bible as a shofet, a “judge”, though behaving in his life as far removed from the behaviour of the wigged and robed judges of our own dear land as one could possibly imagine.
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