Kindness & Commitment: A Journey Through the Book of Ruth - Part 4

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

okay so we're picking up in the Book of Ruth Miguel Estus towards the end of chapter two and uh Russ and Naomi have returned from OAB poor destitute and uh Russ finds her way into the field of boas boas welcomes her is very impressed by her and gives her permission to you know come back use you should keep know come back use you should keep coming back to my field and uh and treats her very well and sends her back to Nai with uh plenty that she collected herself for the most part and also some leftovers from from the meal that he invited her for and uh and that's where we pick up Nai um greets her and asks her where she got everything and uh and she explains that it was from boas and we're going to start from chapter 2 we're going to start from chapter 2 verse 20 where it says Andi said to her daughter-in-law blessed is he to God that he has not abandoned his kindness both for the living and the dead meaning that uh the uh uh that boas is not he should be blessed by God because he has not abandoned his kindness he been kind both to the living kindness he been kind both to the living and the dead meaning says the malim that uh to the living to us to to you and II says that uh he wants to provide for us in an honorable way and uh and also to that this is also a a kindness to The Departed so so here um is where we actually for the first time are possibly introduced to the

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1. 0:03okay so we're picking up in the Book of Ruth Miguel Estus towards the end of…
2. 4:10uh and that's by by normal marriage yum is done just there's no there's no kushan…
3. 8:21hard times and has to sell their property um then uh there are different opportunities to…
4. 12:28it happens to the ran when he talks that this doesn't invoke that as as a…
5. 16:33as to who the father is at this point whether it was a that whe whether…
6. 22:38that you can change um okay now what was the goal here so there's kind of…
7. 26:47symbolism of that is he's gonna have his shoe removed that shows you're not willing to…
8. 30:56little bit um impius and we find similarly actually you go back to where this all…
9. 35:05find some kind of those interesting yeah yeah very interesting thank you okay so uh okay…
10. 39:11you and I will redeem your your property but uh and don't worry that I'm gonna…

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