Biography
Shamgar ben Anath belonged to the era of the Shoftim, the judges who arose to deliver Israel in the generations before the monarchy. In the supplied material he appears not for any teaching of his own but as a figure recalled in later commentary as one of Hashem’s appointed deliverers.
The Akeidat Yitzchak, discussing how Israel was saved in earlier times through human agents, lists the deliverers Hashem raised up — Moshe and Aharon in Egypt, and the figures of the days of Sisera and the later judges — placing Shamgar among those through whom salvation came. The commentary on Bereishit 49, expounding Yaakov’s blessing of Dan, likewise points to the days of the judges and the harm the Pelishtim repeatedly inflicted on Israel, the setting in which Shamgar’s deliverance is remembered.
שַׁמְגַּר בֶּן עֲנָת, לפי המקרא, היה השופט השלישי ששפט את ישראל בתקופת השופטים.
Shamgar, son of Anath, is the name of one or possibly two individuals named in the Book of Judges. The name occurs twice:at the first mention, Shamgar is identified as a man who repelled Philistine incursions into Israelite regions, and slaughtered 600 of the invaders with an ox goad ; the other mention is within the Song of Deborah, where Shamgar is described as having been one of the prior rulers, in whose days roads were abandoned, with travelers taking winding paths, and village life collapsing.
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