Of all phases of in Biblical history, the period of Judges is the closest parallel to our present world. The Jews were restored to their rightful homeland in the Land of Israel, but they were not unified. Even the Mishkan lost much of its centrality to the Jewish people. Rabbi Wein illustrates this fractious period in which the Jews were beset by internal and external wars, never to be resolved until the rising of Deborah the Prophetess whose victory won the Jews 40 years of peace.