Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Book of Ruth - Part 7

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so we are in the midst of the story boaz says to his servant who is this young woman we got into a whole discussion of moabite and the malbim right so boz turns to the girl to ruth and what does he say to her aaron verse 8 chapter 2 verse 8. then boaz said to ruth hear me well my daughter do not close to glean in another field and do not leave here but stay close to my maidens so what does he tell her what's your state stay here you can come to my field you can collect you can glean they're going to harvest you can take whatever you want it's fine stay close to the girls right and don't go to anywhere else keep going one more verse keep your eyes on the field which they are harvesting and follow them i've ordered the young men not to molest you should you get thirsty go to the jugs and drink from what the young men have drawn well it's really nice right not only tell her tells her too that he she has permission to glean from this field he tells her that he was told he gave instructions to the staff not to bother her and that if she's thirsty she should feel free to drink from the water that the servants have uh brought for the workers okay so far so everything's simple right keep going aaron then she fell on her face bowing down to the ground and said to him why have i found a favor in your eyes that you should take special note of me though i am a foreigner so what is she saying why do you like me right she says i did not expect you to be so nice to me because what i'm a foreigner i'm a moabite

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