In connection with the previous post (rejection-the-playing-field-of-the-greatest.html), the Me'am Lo'ez* on Shoftfim/Judges 12:5-6 says regarding the violent animosity between Shevet Ephraim & Shevet Menashe (under the leadership of Yiftach), page 251:
This was a dark time for the Jewish people.
They had suffered many times at the hands of foreign enemies, but to be persecuted by one's own brother is far more bitter.
Then the Me'am Lo'ez presents the following parable...
Once upon a time, there was a blacksmith shop:
Once upon a time, there was a blacksmith shop:
A piece of gold lay on the table in the shop:
As the piece of gold lay there, it heard how the iron rang out every times the blacksmith hit it with his hammer:
"Why do you make so much noise?" said the gold to the iron. "I certainly don't make noise like that when they hit me."
Referring the iron hammer hitting him, the piece of iron replied, "It hurts me more because it is my brother hitting me!"
Referring the iron hammer hitting him, the piece of iron replied, "It hurts me more because it is my brother hitting me!"
Ain't that the truth.
Let's be careful out there.
Let's be careful out there.
*Note: It seems that no Ladino commentary ever appeared for Shoftim/Judges.
Instead, Rav Shmuel Yerushalmi, the Hebrew translator of the Ladino original & a talmid chacham in his own right, created a Hebrew commentary as he went through whatever existed from the entire Me'am Lo'ez on Tanach.
Following that, Rabbi Nathan Bushwick translated & further adapted into English Rav Yerushalmi's original Hebrew commentary.
These efforts resulted in a wonderful reading experience, which also provides the reader with nearly everything one ever wanted to know about Sefer Shoftim.
Instead, Rav Shmuel Yerushalmi, the Hebrew translator of the Ladino original & a talmid chacham in his own right, created a Hebrew commentary as he went through whatever existed from the entire Me'am Lo'ez on Tanach.
Following that, Rabbi Nathan Bushwick translated & further adapted into English Rav Yerushalmi's original Hebrew commentary.
These efforts resulted in a wonderful reading experience, which also provides the reader with nearly everything one ever wanted to know about Sefer Shoftim.
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