Sisera's Mother

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1. Ruth and Chana: Mothers in Israel

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   This lesson compares Ruth and Hannah, the two perfect mothers, and Yael, Deborah and Sisra's mother, who represent a distortion of motherhood. Ruth and Hannah introduce motherly compassion as a model, and the results are Shmuel, who anoints kings, and David, who creates the dynasty of monarchy in Israel.

2. Devorah and Yael

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   This episode furnishes us with a mother - Devorah - and a wife - Yael - securing victory for a rag-tag army of irregulars over an army with nine hundred iron chariots in order to indicate that war is ignoble, killing is tragic, but freedom from enemy domination must be nevertheless be achieved. While the women of Israel proclaim life's inherent sanctity and celebrate its inviolate worth, leaving their proverbial tents to counter the threat but never reveling in the enemies' demise, Sisera's mother dreams of more bloodshed and spoils.