The Philistines that robbed the wells, what does that story tell us?
ANSWER:
It's a prophecy; our forefathers lived prophecy. They didn't speak prophecy, but they lived the prophecy.
The prophecy was that we would come to countries and we would invest our efforts to build up those countries, to build up their commerce, industry, and even sciences, but we should know that eventually it's not for us. The goyim will come and seize it from us. As we did in Germany, in France, and in Spain, and other countries, and finally they expel the Jews, and all their efforts that they expended for their country were lost to them.
And so the Philistines seized the wells that were dug by the Avos, to show us that portent.
Good Shabbos To All
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