Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud 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.');"><sup>32</sup></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.');"><sup>33</sup></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.');"><sup>34</sup></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

Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah

HALAKHAH: It is written1201S. 12:6., the Eternal Who made Moses and Aaron and Who brought up etc. 1211S. 12:11.Then the Eternal sent Yerubbaal, and Bedan, and Yephtah, and Samuel. Yerubbaal is Gideon122Jud. 6:32.. Bedan is Simson123The name Bedan appears again in 1Chr. 7:17, as name of a Gileadite. Since nothing is otherwise known of this person and he is not mentioned as a Judge, the word is not read as a proper name but as a statement, “in Dan”; referring to Simson, the only Judge of the tribe of Dan.. Yephtah is Yephtah the Gileadite. He combined the three most lightweight of the world124Gideon is suspected of introducing aspects of paganism into Jewish worship with his ephod, Simson is depicted as rather dumb, and Yephtah, judged by the standard of rabbinic law, showed his incompetence in the case of his daughter’s vow. with the three most powerful of the world, to teach you that the Courts of Gideon, and Yephtah, and Simson are of equal consideration as those of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel. Not only this but He mentioned the great ones on both sides and the little ones in the middle125Babli 25a..
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