Nonetheless, the Rabbis use these ties to denounce the attraction to foreign women prevalent at the time. One of the views presented in the A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation hermeneutical rules.
The Rabbis learn from the wording of Jud. Rabbah Samson, however, did not heed his parents, preferring instead what his eyes saw Jud. The Lit. When not specified, "Talmud" refers to the Babylonian Talmud. This weakness would reveal itself again in his liaisons with the woman from Gaza and with Delilah, and he consequently was punished even for the first relationship, which was a formal marriage, because of this proclivity BT Sotah 9b.
According to another view, Samson did not sin with the woman from Timnah, for he took her for the purpose of matrimony. His moral decline began with the woman from Gaza, when he merely engaged in intercourse with a harlot. The Rabbis find this, as well, to be an instance of middah ke-neged middah.
Since this illegitimate act took place in Gaza Jud.
