A short Insight into Judges, Chapter 10 By Rabbi Nisson Dov Miller

Since Chanukah is a time for shevach and hodayah, praise and thanks for Hashem, perhaps it is fitting to mention a medresh from Bamidbar Rabbah (20, 5) that dwells on the times in our history that we did not appreciate what Hashem had done for us. “Hashem said, 'I redeem you and perform miracles for you and you rebel against me. Come and see seven times I have redeemed you. Correspondingly, you were obligated to praise me seven times. As it says in Shoftim (10,11-12), “Did I not save you from Egypt and from the Amorite and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines? The Sidonians and Amalek and Maon oppressed you and you cried out to me and I saved you from their hand . . . and you rebelled against me by serving seven idols.”'”