Myths.Lion's honey

A prominent Israeli novelist David Grossman reveals the story of the biblical hero Samson. In his essay mighty warrior and a servant of God appears as a man with a delicate and sensitive soul, doomed to rejection and loneliness. Image, for centuries, inspired many artists, composers and writers that have come into the consciousness of the Jewish people as a national hero, leads the author, and after him and the readers to the question: "Why do people so often choose the path that leads to failure, when most in need of salvation? So it is with individuals, and societies, and Nations; sometimes it seems that a kind of depressing circularity pushes them to reproduce their tragic choice again and again..." the Hebrew Segal.