Juízes 14:14 Midrash: Vayikra Rabbah & Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer

Another matter: “This is the offering of Aaron” – that is what the verse said: “He said to them: From the eater emerged food” (Judges 14:14). Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman said: When the Divine Spirit began to resonate in Samson, it began in three places, as it is stated: “The spirit of the Lord began to move him in the camp of Dan, between Tzora and Eshtaol” (Judges 13:25). What is “between Tzora and Eshtaol”?⁶What mighty act did he perform there? Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman said: It teaches that he took two mountains and knocked them against one another, like a person who takes two pebbles and knocks them against one another.
Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Naḥman: Rabbi Yehuda said: When the Divine Spirit would rest upon him, he would take a single stride like the distance from Tzora to Eshtaol. Rabbi Naḥman said: When the Divine Spirit would rest upon him, his hairs would stand on end and would knock against one another like a bell, and the sound would travel like the distance between Tzora and Eshtaol.
When he descends to Timna, “Samson, his father, and his mother descended to Timna […a young lion was roaring toward him. The spirit of the Lord rested upon him, and he tore it apart as one would tear apart a kid]” (Judges 14:5–6). “The spirit of the Lord rested upon him, and he descended to Ashkelon [and he smote thirty of their men]” (Judges 14:19); “he came to Leḥi…[The spirit of the Lord rested upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that was burned with fire, and his bonds dissolved from upon his hands]” (Judges 15:14). When he returned from Timna, he said: I will go and see the fallen lion, as it is stated: “After a year, he returned to take her, [and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the carcass of the lion, and honey], and he scraped it into his hands” (Judges 14:8–9). Samson was wondering in his heart, and he said: A lion eats all beasts and now food is emerging from it? So too, Aaron eats all the offerings and now an offering is emerging from him? Which is that? It is the offering of Aaron and his sons.

Rabbi José said: From whom do we learn (that there should be) seven days of (the wedding) banquet? From our father Jacob, who || made a banquet with rejoicing for seven days, and he took Leah (as his wife). Again he kept another seven days of banquet and rejoicing, and took Rachel (as his wife), as it is said, "And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast" (Gen. 29:22). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to them: Ye have shown loving-kindness to Jacob, My servant. I will give a reward to your children, so that there be no reward for the wicked in the world to come: "Because by him the Lord had given victory unto Syria" (2 Kings 5:1). From whom do we learn (that there should be) seven days of banquet? From Samson the Nazirite of God, for when he went down to the land of the Philistines, he took a wife and kept seven days of banquet and rejoicing, as it is said, "And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him" (Judg. 14:11). What were they doing with him? They were eating and drinking and rejoicing, as it is said, "And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a riddle unto you" (Judg. 14:12); and another text says, "They could not declare the riddle in three days" (Judg. 14:14).