Mesorat%20hashas for Rosh Hashanah 49:16

ואומר (שמואל א יב, ו) ויאמר שמואל אל העם ה' אשר עשה את משה ואת אהרן ואומר (שמואל א יב, יא) וישלח ה' את ירובעל ואת בדן ואת יפתח ואת שמואל ירובעל זה גדעון ולמה נקרא שמו ירובעל שעשה מריבה עם הבעל בדן זה שמשון ולמה נקרא שמו בדן דאתי מדן יפתח כמשמעו

HE THEN WENT TO R'DOSA B. HARKINAS etc. Our Rabbis taught: Why were not the names of these elders mentioned? So that a man should not say, Is So-and-so like Moses and Aaron? Is So-and-so like Nadab and Abihu? Is So-and-so like Eldad and Medad?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if a man does say so about the Beth din in his own time, we can answer him that they may be at least like the seventy elders who are unknown by name.');">³²</span> Scripture also says, And Samuel said to the people, It is the Lord that made Moses and Aaron,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 1 Sam. XII, 6.');">³³</span> and it says [in the same passage], And the Lord sent Jerubaal and Bedan and Jepthah and Samuel.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid.11. These are here put on a par with Moses and Aaron.');">³⁴</span> Jerubaal is Gideon. Why is he called Jerubaal? Because he contended with Baal. Bedan is Samson. Why is he called Bedan? Because he came from Dan. Jepthah is Jepthah

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