As we saw in the last shiur, even thought Yehoshua was supposed to wipe out all the 7 nations in the land, he didn’t, and as you can see in the map from Shiur #1, there is quite a lot of eretz hanisheret, of left over land that has not been conquered, left full of non Jews. In perek 2 here, the malach comes to bochim and rebukes Am Israel for this sin.

The goal of this shiur is to discuss with the chanichim the original command to wipe out the 7 nations originally. Is this ideal? Or is it genocide? Why would Hashem want us to wipe them out, why can’t we live with them?

To teach the chanachim to be trolerable and respect people different to them e.g. disabled people.

מטרות:

1. החניכים יבינו שבפנימיותו של כל אדם יש רצון טוב, והדברים שמעכבים את הטוב מלבוא-לידי-ביטוי, הנם חיצוניים לנו.

2. החניכים ילמדו שהרב נריה התייחס אל כל אדם בסבלנות, מתוך הגישה שכך ניתן לעורר את הטוב שבאדם.

3. החניכים יפנימו את הגישה הזו הן לגבי עצמם ( = עין טובה ) , והן לגבי אחרים  (= לדון לכף זכות ) .

Goal: The chanichim will discuss how Shimshon is an extremely strange Shofet, and how this was all on purpose; that Am Israel needed an undercover Shofet who could work undercover, living amongst the Pelishtim, to fight them single handedly on behalf on Am Israel. The chanichim will discuss why Shimshon needed to be a Nazir to offset the dangers of this mission and will discuss the story of his birth and the characters of his mother and father- Manoach and Eshet Manoach.