Rabbi Avi Geller - Shavuot: The Book of Ruth

okay so we're doing the book of ruth right page 1269 in the earthquake right we read the book of ruth on the holiday of schwarz so the first question is why one reason is given because ruth was the great grandmother of king david and he gave it his your sight is angelos right uh also the setting of the book of ruth is during the harvest which is the season of time i think the most important reason is because on us we want to accept the torah you know we have to relive the events that happened in the past it's not like in you know the secular world you commemorate events that happen right we have washington's birthday lincoln's birthday independence day it doesn't happen to come out on a convenient day of the week push off the mondays have a nice long weekend right right right but in junior years when we don't just commemorate we relive right some safari jews have a customer in the middle of the passover theater there's a knock on the door guy comes thinking hanging sacking behind his back where you coming from mitsuram egypt where you're going you shall lie right they put the muscles on their shoulders they march around the table they put on a whole skit to make it come alive we don't talk about the going out of egypt you burn your mouth on horseradish we go out of our house where we can sit in the sukkah and we stay up by night all night on schwarzkopf and we want to relive the revelation on sinai right and here we have an example a gyorus a convertis she was a daughter of a king she was a princess and she left everything to become part of the jewish people right the story of ruth is an example for us how someone has to accept the torah that's why we read the book of ruth untrust right and the gematria the numerical value of the name ruth is 606 right and she had seven misses beforehand so hundred six plus seven equals three six thirteen what do you mean you get seven minutes and non-jews have seven midfielders haven't lost a number right right right and then another jewish you added on 606 which is the glottary of ruth okay so the book begins and it was in the days when the judges judged and the rabbis say not the judges judge the people but the people judge the judges we have to appreciate the fact that the period of our history between the time of joshua until king saul close to 300 years where there was no king it was a period of the judges it means the country where i ran on the honor system for close to 300 years right the judge was appointed by the sanhedrin to make decisions for the nations go to war or not but there was only there was a volunteer army and that was it no police force right the people lived without a police force for 300 years right pretty good so if you look at the book of judges and the end of the book of judges there's two stories the story of the kankamine and giva piregas megiva where there was a civil war and the story of the pessimist and it says over there you know why these events happen because there was no king in israel implying that had there been a central authority he would have prevented these calamities from happening sounds bad there was no king right that's why repping pointed out two incidents in 300 years is a pretty good track record right right what happened in new york city one day without a police force even with the police rush right somebody said right you know this guy was walking in central park late at night and he's frightened of the buckers and the drug addicts they see the policeman he says when i see you guys i feel confident and they said we don't we're scared if we go in the air marketplace later i see the police and they're scared anyway this was between the judges it wasn't even a judge they could do whatever they wanted right right and there was a hunger in the land and we know the land of israel is usually fertile land right we don't fight too many hungers but in the tanakh we find the number of hungers there's a common denominator between the different ones first hunger was in the times of abraham he comes out to egypt there's a hungary goes out he come through he goes out to egypt right and as a result of that hunger hagar joined the jewish people parker was a great woman a princess the daughter of pharaoh and she would rather be amidst her a mate server but sarah to be a princess right later on she messed it up but she was a great woman then we find the time of jacob there was a hunger as a result of that hunger jacob went out to egypt and the heir of rav the mixed multitude joined us 600 000 uh egyptians right the cream of the crop of egyptians joined us right and here we have a third anger and again as a result of the hunger we have ruth coming to join us and there was a hunger in the land and a man right and a man went from baselechemy to bethlehem judah that was the maya shah rum of those days the most religious place right to sojourn in the fields of moab he and his wife and his two sons he right it was a catalyst his wife came along with him and his two sons right his name was elimelech so we have to say something in his favor ellie malek was a great man right he was a big torah scholar but he used he didn't follow the rambam the album says when you give charity you shouldn't give all at once you give a little bit of time so every time you have to give you have to overcome your age and your yatzah right right say he didn't follow that he gave once a year in the office right right now there's a hunger they're knocking at his door all day long he has no men no rest in his house in the synagogue wherever he goes there's a hunger it is what he couldn't take it now there's a principle when you're studying torah you only have to enter into intervene your torah interfere if this mitzvah that no one else can do mitzvot no one else can do except you but if someone else can do it you're not required to stop learning torah right i'm not the only ritual the other is people let them do it right i want to study torah i'll go to a small town in moab just to study torah there and when the hunger is over i'll come back that was his plan so we we're saying in his favor right of course there are madrushim that the poor people said we're going to break down his house until still everything he has right right and uh there was no judge remember between the judges right they could do whatever they wanted that's another fact of the consideration in any case he had a good reason and he left and his wife didn't want his name was no me means pleasant she was well known for her good deeds she always took care of poor brides and took them took all they took cares of all their needs and the two sons names were mahlone means sickness and which is what happened to them in the end right right they were distinguished right uh family right from and they came to the fields of moab and they were there when you leave israel just go on the plane and you're going you know you're going right to come back it's a lot harder you have to speak to israelis living in america we're coming back we're coming back a lot harder right i just want to show you look a little bit ahead of them later on in the part in this chapter we noticed how many words does the book of ruth use to describe normally coming back to israel how many words does he use she went out of the place that she was with the two daughters and they went on the road to return to judah right then it says and they went both of them until they came to beijing and when they came to islam this happened right and finally she returned right with the daughter-in-law who returned from the field of mob and they came through exactly she went and she came and she returned and they returned and they came and they came and finally got back to leave israel one two three come back not so easy okay back to verse three so even though we said abimelech had a good intention right but the fact was he was a rich man and he abandoned his people and their trouble and god considered that akhil hashem and ali the husband of an army right and the rabbi said before he died he lost all his money right howard had hinted in the verse he lost all his money because he calls him the husband of nami now when rockefeller dies they don't say you know who died shirley's husband they say rockefeller right he was a nobody he lost his money he wasn't he was a white husband nominee was very famous for a good deeds she was you know who died the husband and daughter she's a famous woman he lost everything right so what should she have done after her husband died tell me herself what you the first thing what's your name come back to israel right but she remained with the two sons it's so hard to come back right and they married more white women one's name was orpah and one's name was ruth and they lived here 10 years temporary residence for 10 years right so when he was alive he watched over his songs make sure that you know they studied totally did everything right when they died they married the now what's this really intermarriage were these women converted or not that's a big question because the problem if they were converted so how can nami tell them to go back can you tell the conference go back once you're covered two no backslides can't go back right right on the other hand if they were not converted then they weren't really married the marriage is not vowed to a non-jew and we see later on in the book that she was considered the wife of maklong ruth was the wife of he had to redeem the people feel the buckle of her so so if he wasn't jewish he wasn't his wife so i think the answer is they did go through a conversion process it wasn't like today we would just marry out there wasn't conversion the question was whether they were sincere nami was questioning their sincerity so she's going to test them to go back if they go back that will show they were not sincere so they would have a jewish in the first place that was orpah but since ruth stayed with her that showed she was this here in the first place therefore she was still married and therefore she was considered the wife of much but these two guys did not have such good attention and they also died they both died and killian and she remained from her 2000s her two sons and her husband now go back she had two sons machlon and kilian imply who was the older one and they married women orpah and russ right and we know machlon was the husband of ruth so who married orpah gillian's who got married who married first the younger brother married first right it says they took wives orpah and ruth right so that means killian married orpha first and then machlaw mary ruth right and they died who died macholone and killian who died first so if they're dying for marrying these women shouldn't kill you and have died first he was the one married first he married robert first why didn't makalon die first right here the question right hear the question and the answer is very good right you see if the older brother machlon would have married first and he got a good wife ruth you couldn't really blame the younger brother he's following his brother's footsteps he got a good wife they are going to go have to but the younger brother married first and he got a schlock he got real he got orpa right the older brother what are you doing after a younger brother you should say no all right you followed after younger brother you got killed he died first he's worse got it so she remained from her two sons and her husband and she got up with her daughter-in-law's and she returned from the field of mula right could she could they return they were never there before she's returning they were accompanying her because she heard in the field of moab that god remembered his people give them bread you see the language of the prophet say she heard the proud the famine is over god remembered his people to give them bread right right she saw joshua and she's on the market stands you know that she know that the famine was over okay and they went out that place friends things out of this place right this place is bad my husband died my wife had this place right right right right to return to the land of judah and she said to her two daughter-in-laws go return every woman to her mother's house right right right right now before we start i'll die i'll ask you a question these two women were princesses that i would say they were the daughters of england the king of moab right right they could have been in the palace they married these two jewish boys they were they were so poor when they died that the daughter-in-laws have to pay they'll have to wait for the husband's funerals around myself they have to pay for this round they want money right right so they can go back you know to the palace but they're choosing to return with this old widow to a foreign country they don't know the country they don't know the language they know the customs their chances of getting married they are very slim right right right and and she doesn't have any money right if we were best and if we were court and we have to decide if these converts are sincere what would we say are they sincere what would you say yes definitely right they're going to get they're not getting in they're just losing they're not gaining anything of course this isn't it but an army did not take that for an answer you know judaism uh what's unique about judaism we're the most liberal religion of all the religions we're the most liberal religion there is all the other religions right we're the only religion that promises heaven to non-members every other religion you got to be a member got to be a catholic you got to be a protestant you got a mormon or a buddhist or a hindu or a muslim and you'll hear the music playing and the drums beating and you'll see the light guaranteed or your money back but when the non-jew comes together we thought it's not necessary right keep the seven laws of noah live a moral life you go to heaven we promise heavens and our members right right right you want to be a jew right there's difference in 7 613 we can we cannot refuse the convert do you know that as long as it's sincere truth we give confidence a very hard time make sure that he's going to marry jewish boy jewish girl once we're consensus with vince this person since he wants to keep the torah we must accept them they can be black red makes no difference right right so she has to talk them out of it so she says to her daughter-in-law she says um go return every woman to her mother's house go back to mommy may god do with you kindness as you did to me and with the dad you paid for the funerals after all i am sure when they were alive they didn't have a good relationship with them she was very angry at their marriage not jewish all these moral fight women but after husbands are dead though it's not their fault may god give you you should find rest every woman in her husband's house that's what she said first you need to go back to mommy you want rest you know what you should do get married have 10 kids does that make sense what do you have more rest going back to mommy you're getting married having kids what's bigger rest going to mommy right and the answer is it doesn't mean physical rest of course you get more physical rights go to mommy and sleep all day a woman has to have inner peace if a woman doesn't have a husband and a family she's not at peace with herself if you want to go go to sleep go back to mommy but i'll tell you advice if you want to have rest if you want to have inner peace get married have a family and she kissed them they lifted up the voices and they cried three women crying on a little side road moab and jewish history is being made and they said to her no with you will return to your people at this point if we were best in would we accept them are they considered right she told them back and they said no we're staying what do you say would be successful yesterday you would but not not on me not the represent no right she said return my daughters why should you go with me do i have sons in my womb for you to marry right return my daughters go i'm too old to be to a man i said do i have any hope even if it was tonight to a man even if he had birthed the size tonight what are the odds of an old lady old widow getting remarried one in a thousand can we marry tonight what is ten thousand having sons the computer explodes and even if i had sons tonight would you wait till they grow up to marry you'll be over childbearing right you don't have any children right right no way even if i had sons tonight right um will you wait for them until they grow up right you'll be in gunas you will be on oh you'll pass childbearing rage right not to be married no my daughters it's bittered me very much the hands of god has been upon me and they lifted up their voices and they cried again three women crying in a little road and jewish history is being made and orpah kissed her mother-in-law and ruth clung to her orphan said you're my mentor you're my repetition you teach me wisdom you're right a woman has to have inner peace i have to get married with you there's no chance i gotta go and she gets through it she left and what did ruth say yes married no married yes children no children torah i want to be a jew i want to be part of the jewish people i don't care i'm not married gets married i want to be a jew that's the most important thing to me i'm staying right and the rap i say many years later there was a battle the great grandson of orpon the great grandson of ruth met on the battlefield because orpah went back that day she had relations with many men and she had a great grandson named goliath who cursed god and david fought with goliath and the rabbis say it's fitting that the grandson of the one who clung to mommy should be victorious over the one who kissed and left so we see here jewish history is being made okay so our believes at this point if we were best in we have to decide is ruth's sincere or not will we accept her as a prayer what do you say what do you say at this point of course definitely right not nami you know it's still not ready you got to go and she said behold your companion has returned to her people to her god go also with her why don't you go too and ruth's very famous favorite favorite famous expression don't entreat me to leave you to return from behind you where you go is i will go will you sleep i will sleep your people are my people your god is my god will you die i will die there i'll be buried so shall god do to me and socially increase because only death will separate between me and you i'm going to be jew in any case but i'd rather be together with you and they always learn from here an interesting thing that you when you when you're a convert you have to inform him when he's converting some of the laws there's no way he's getting into it right some of the hard ones some of the easy ones did you have an idea so from the reply that she said we learned what mommy told her first thing that we told her was that you know we can't guard the dow tree of shabbos it's more than two thousand cupid's where you go i will go you can't be alone with some of the accident sex where you sleep i would sleep right you can't worship idols your god is my god right right right there's a death penalty will you die will die the separate cemeteries for those got a death penalty they all be buried she accepted it all right right at this point even omi was ready to accept her one last test verse 18 and she saw that she was struggling to go with her she stopped speaking to her how was lobby going an old lady represented she lost her family she's crying she's saying to him she's dominating like that she's walking like this how did ruse walk like a typical non-jewish girl walks right right right but she saw her name he was walking so he's trying to emulate it she's also trying to dominate she's not adopted she looks like that she was trying to do everything she was struggling to emulate her when she saw that she stopped creating her okay now she accepted her and they went both of them until they came to baseless next page and they take their islam the entire city came upon them and they said is that an army first of all why is the entire city there when they come and second of all is that a way to talk to an old widow who's suffering who's poor you know that's the obvious she was so beautiful she was so rich look at her now and all that too embarrassing the women from maya shahrim from basel that's how you talk to a woman and then rabbi saying though so right right so the rapper i say what happened when ruth said she was gonna god your god is my god the wife of boaz boaz was the judge his wife died and the next day was the funeral so the cemetery was outside the town the entire city came to the funeral of the wife of the judge right right in the middle of the funeral they look up and they see two women walking down the street who are they one of them doesn't even look jewish right right and the other one looks very familiar one second could it be one second could that why is that normally why it was spontaneous they didn't mean to embarrass her right here she was so beautiful and young and i know such as all the rags how could that be could that be an army is that an army right and she said don't call me on me which means pleasant called me more bitter because god has been bitter to me i went full and god has returned me empty handed don't call me an army goddess and bruce's hearing her mentor saying confession i think i said they said right right and they returned they came and they returned they came and they returned returned from the field of they came to baseline the beginning of the harvest of the barley but so every mother had a field but he hadn't been there for 10 years it wasn't nobody planted it there was nothing wrong with it they didn't have any food chapter two nami had a relative from her husband's side his name was a man of valor's name was every male family of american boss boss was the nephew of uh the nephew of nami nami's father and alimer were brothers he married his brother's daughter his niece and uh she could have gone to him and said give me money right but it was been the three dignity right she was a very famous proud woman she said go ask for baby he should come to me i go to him right so ruth the set in on me let me go in the field and pick after those i found favor right she asked permission from her mentor from a rebecca to go pick you know how was charity given in the olden days we had harvest let get chicken they would put aside one corner of the field for the poor and they could either divide it up equally or grab as much as they can then when they would cut the grain if one or two grains fell down to the floor that they had to leave it for the poor three or more they could take it back that's called liquid and then when they made pump mondals they would come back if they left forgot one or two bundles behind them they had to uh leave it for the poor three more then go back and get it right so the more people the they're called the gleaners they would follow after the harvesters and pick up whatever they left so ruth asked permission from her repetition can i please go out and pick after the i know you're not going to go because you're embarrassed everybody knows you right it's embarrassing you were once rich with me nobody knows me let me go she asked her permission and what if she would have said no two days later two more funerals and that would be the end of the book of ruth luckily she said yes okay she said yes right and she gave her a minute and she went and she went and she came and she ticked in the field after the harvesters and she happened to be in the field of bowlers the family of a melee she went and she came what does that mean she went and she came so one interpretation is she was afraid she might get lost on the way back coming back late at night she might get lost she went first and she made signs for herself how to get to find her way back she went one time and then she went the second half make sure you know how to get back that's a simple answer the rap i say she was looking for a group that she felt comfortable with she didn't got to go any poor people she wanted to go with pokey that were modest i didn't speak a lot on her she was looking for a group that's appropriate for her right now there was a famine for 10 years this is the first harvest if you get there late they gave me nothing left right right right he was waiting for a girl i'll give you an analogy a lady may have showered with 10 children right she reads the newspaper there's a sale in tel aviv what stores give everything have price one day she has a daughter 12 year old daughter you know wake up tomorrow early take the first person television his money buy whatever you can okay the daughter gets at six o'clock in the morning goes to the bus stop two hours later the mother passed the bus stop and she's addressing the bus stop what are you doing in the bus stop supposed to go down mommy i saw the people on that bus says my mother wouldn't want to be and that wasn't those kind of people right can the next boss same thing next month next thing i'm still looking for a book by the time you get a television there'll be nothing left it's one day sale but mommy i did bring you something from telugu i knew i could trust you what'd you bring with television i brought you the modesty of your daughter that's worth more than all the sales in tel aviv all the bargains right all right ruth waited she'll she had a special group she could go with right and did she lose anything on the deal she made the best she got to marry boaz right right great guy okay the villain the gong is the third interpretation you know she went and she came you know if i pick my house is over here and i pick by time we get to the field after step it all back she went to the end of the field and she picked backwards towards her house that way she'll be closer to her house when she got back all right she went and she came she went to the end of the field festival right she's going fundraising the first time in her life and she knows all the tricks you know you have fundraisers you know with experienced fundraisers know who to go to and when to come guys the first time they come they knock on my door she's going the first time and she knows a little trick so why is it why does the book of worship tell us that she wasn't stupid she was very intelligent so why'd she ask permission from her rebecca to go because you have to have a rabbit sin you have to ask permission you can't just go on your own and she came to the field of emily right the boys uh next verse four right and boaz came from bethlehem and he saw the harvest he said god be with you let me want to raise your spirituality and boss has to land in charge of his soldiers to who is this girl and the robber says what's beau was doing looking at girls an old man with a law might be of the soccer rabbit he wouldn't even notice that what he was doing look at the girls right right so the bubbles interesting answer to this question he says you know there were three things they told you like a chicken paya if you were a poor guy you want to get the most grain we would we're the best place to go the payer pay you grabs what did you want right right what's second best the shikha the bundles right the age bundles worth fifty dollars and the least is the liquor the individual grains so rue said look if i go to the payer the poor people are going to fight with me who are you what are you doing you're being jewish why are you getting their grain they're going to fight with me i don't want to fight with them if i go to the chica each one of these bundles with fifty dollars the workers will fight with me i didn't forget it you didn't forget it i didn't forget i didn't get it i'll go to the liquid individual grains no one's going to bother me i don't want to fight with anybody i'll just pick over there it seems she was the only one but lick it right cuz balls on the field he sees hundreds poor people by the payer hundred by the chicken only one girl by the neck and she's picking holes she was only with it she picked a whole bunch to who is this your limi she must be related to one of the harvesters maybe it's his sister his daughter he's throwing up my grave who's the guy giving my grade away let me who's this girl who is this girl who you related to that's what the bible says but the rabbis answered the question differently the rabbi said you know how we know why he noticed her because she was very modest she didn't bend over she stooped down on him on his way she kept she only kept two and not three right right so the question is how does it answer the question what's he doing look at the modest girls don't look at milestones either all right what's he doing look at the girls all right so our rabbi said you have to understand this was the first harvest after a 10 year famine the women in masjim the children were starving do you think they were paying attention to the they were just grabbing they weren't sitting stupid they were just grabbing everybody they could grab only one girl was keeping the halakhah only one girl was modest only one she had two over here one over there is that two or three she measured it with after rabbi came back only one girl was giving her one you know why she must have a teacher lamianara to who is this girl who is her mentor who is her teacher she must have someone who sat there and she didn't have mommy sat down and taught her the laws make sure you're modest make sure you keep that right and he said to her the lad in charge yes she's about more by woman that returned from within all me from the field of mob ah and she let me pick a little bit and gather she sat down now and the boss says to ruth behold i've heard my daughter don't go to pick in any other fields don't pass away from here stay with my maids notice my mates she has she had female heart he had female harvesters with my mates stay with the women right right your eyes in the field which you're cutting which you're picking right and go after them i told the boys to leave you alone not to touch you if you're thirsty you can drink from the water right and she fell on her face and she bowed down and she said why have you why have i found favor in your eyes to recognize me i'm a stranger and bo it says it was told to me what you did to your mother-in-law after the death of your husband she calls him her husband she where he was with it she was considered married to makalon and you left your father your mother you landed your birthday you left everything behind to go to an old widow she's going to die so you'll be all alone no husband no children right right right you know from day that you didn't know what nation you know yesterday may god pay you back for your for your deed your reward shall be complete from the god of israel that you came under his wings and she said i've had favor in your eyes my master you've comforted me you've spoken on the heart of your might servant i'm not like one of your maidservants and boaz said when they came to eat come and eat even says what the menu is they dip their pizza and vinegar right that's a good hot day right and she ate and she was satisfied and she put away a doggie bag for her mother-in-law she put away from her mother some food and she got at the pic and boaz told his lads let her pick between the sheaves and don't embarrass her and let him throw a little bit more to her right don't yell at her right and she picked but he only shipped two or three she didn't take any more only two right three in the evening and she beat it she had a whole eight foot hole big amount of barley and she lifted up and she came to the city and her mother-in-law saw that she had picked right and she gave her a little it was left over for her food in that one second she gave her what was left over is that a nice thing hit my i had some leftovers taken she said i brought you special food right leftovers right and then it's just because nami was sensitive she didn't want to take favor she didn't want to take charity she said oh yeah i don't watch you buying things from me no you happen to have a leftover you know it's going to go to waste anyway you basically go to waste right she was sensitive to mommy's feelings right i left over think have you made a leader you know no there's no one anyway and she said to her mother-in-law where did your mother say where did you pick today who's the guy who paid you looks like you got a salary may god uh blessed uh you know may he recognize me blessed and she told him the man i spoke to his name is boaz and nami said to her daughter-in-law blessed he to hashem who has not left his kindness to the living and the dead he's our relative he's a redeemer now what does it mean he's a redeemer so we know in the torah there's a lot called right huma means level right marriage if a man dies without children the torah considers having children to be the main purpose of a marriage it's not the only purpose of a marriage you know couples have you can't have children itself a very successful marriage but it's the main purpose if a man's if he has a brother the torah says the brother should marry the widow right and if they have a child it's considered as if it's a child of the dead brother but if he doesn't want to marry her it's not a good idea say she's much older she's much younger the ceremony called khalissa when she takes off his uh shoe and she spits on the floor and that removes that obligation right here it wasn't really the iphone because there were no brothers the brother brothers died right but a similar thing is called cooler we were under the partial a few weeks ago if a man sells his his inheritance field if he has a relative the relative has a mitzvah to buy it back to redeem it and if the one who sold it was a widow right it was a mitzvah the custom was to marry the winner the one who redeemed the field would marry the widow similar to eboom and that way they remember the husband that was the veil that belonged to it was similar to evil right since we're talking and said he's our relative he's going to have to review the field things have to marry you right now let's just talk about you i'll tell you a story you know the famous story in the book of kings of king solomon king solomon the wizard of king solomon they were two women who gave birth at the same time and was sleeping in the same room with their babies right one middle of night one day one of the women accidentally suffocated her baby wakes up in the middle of night or baby's dead went over to the other woman and switched babies next morning the other one wakes up my baby's dead it's my baby it's my baby they come back in some big ones my baby and solomon said cut him in half you get off and you've got half and the false mother says good idea you don't get him i don't get him the real mother says don't kill my baby give him to her and someone said she's the real mother have you heard that story before book of kings have you learned about the mother-in-laws the two mother-in-law was fighting for the son-in-law she said my son-in-law did my son cut him out anyway anyway uh but there's a question on that story what's the question on the story how does that story show us the wisdom of solomon right the other woman who's the fourth mother doesn't she know her mother loves her baby right she should have also said don't kill them they both just said give it to her and he said would that know the little mother is how did solomon know in advance that the fourth one who gets that killed the baby she should also they both should have said don't kill him right how do you know there's a number of answers to that question but the commentary mirrors the beautiful answer he says these weren't only two women there was a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law who gave birth at the same time now few people that sounds very strange because in your society we have small families that's not too common right in our society we have big families it's very uh my brother has 12 children now when his older son got married his wife was loving babies that's how far-fetched right so the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law had babies at the same time right and the daughter-in-law's baby died and after a baby died her husband died which means her husband died without children that's that's the epo right the only problem was her husband didn't have any brothers they were no brothers the only brother husband had was the mother-in-law's baby the mother-in-law's baby was her husband's brother he's the mary's barrier but she has to wait till the baby grows up to be 13 years old to either marry her and make the collisions everybody for 13 years she cannot get remarried so she had a good idea and i'll do i'll switch babies that way first of all my husband left his son second there's no brother that's what solomon figured out someone says you know if i say kill the baby she'll say great idea right she's trying to fool everybody that's her son but if the king kills the baby then there's no baby there's no brother and she can legally get remarried so he said kill the baby he said great great idea that's how we do any case so he told us he's our redeemer you've gotta he's gonna he's gonna he hasn't forgot his mercy from the right of living and from the dead you see if you marry the the widow it's a continuation of the soul of the dead husband that's why it means that's what she means when she says over there that he's our redeemer right uh he hasn't left this guy remembers 20 on page 12 15 1571 he hasn't left his kindness from the living from the dead he's our redeemer and ruth said he told me to stay with his lads that are with him until i finish all the harvest is that what he told her hold on one minute look at verse 21 when she said uh stay with my uh my workers in the the the male workers right go back to verse um eight there he says with no rasai my maids stay with the female workers she wasn't used to the separation of sexes you know boys and girls they're all together right boys girls what's the difference right so immediately nobody corrects her and nobody said to her no good my daughter stay with his maids with the girls not with the boys and don't go in the other field and did she follow her twice was saying verse 23 and she stuck with the maids of mars to pick until they finished the harvest of the barley and the wheat and she had a lot of friends she could have gone out at night she returned to her mother she stayed loyal to her mother chapter three and nami said to her mother-in-law my daughter the time has come to find the rest which will be good for you so what does rest mean we said before what does rest mean inner peace it's time for you to get married till now she would get married why because that a converter has to wait for three months she got married maybe she was pregnant even if she was away from her husband before it doesn't make a difference the same thing a dwarf dorsey or a widow we don't allow them to get married to the way for three months because in case they're pregnant and she has a baby from the second husband we don't know it's a seven month paper or nine months we don't know who the father is right so we make them wait three months after three months you can tell everyone's pregnant so three months are over now it's time for you to get married i found rest for you and she said behold boaz are relative you were with his maidservants he's winnowing in the in the field right wash yourself and smear yourself and put on your sharpest dress nice clothes and go out in the in the fields and he's going to spend the night he was afraid of people stealing his crops and we sleep spent the night there when he lies down see the place where he's lying and comment and uncover his feet and lie down and he will tell you what to do after that now ruth did not consider this to be a very modest thing to do right she didn't really think that was a great thing to do with god said go and she said to her whatever you tell me i will do i follow my representation right right right but she changed a little she went down and she did she didn't get dressed up first the other we all dressed up weak on the wedding date today right she went into normal clothes she put this her clothes in her bag and then when she went down and then she dressed over there right now what's the idea of taking off uncovering the shoe uncovering her feet you see it simulating takes over she takes all of your idea of the shoe so the capitalists say you know there are many levels of soul we have the ruach the spirit we have the nephesh like the animals have we have the shama the highest level of soul is barely attached to the body in fact an analogy of the soul being attached to the body could be the shoe are you in your shoe yes but just a small part of you just your foot right right the soul is attached to the body like that's true so if you marry the widow and the the dead husband has a continuation he has a continuation but if you don't marry him you're disconnecting the soul from this world the analogy of taking off the shoe is disconnecting the soul from this world right so if he doesn't want to marry the widow take off the shoes similarly she's uncovering his feet similar hinting to him if you don't marry me my husband will not have a continuation you're uncovering them for you taking off the shoe of my house when you're disconnecting my husband from this world that's the hint over there and if he would have just asked him you know he would have said i'm an old man let me find somebody else but ruth wouldn't find him no one would marry her right i didn't know he was a moab i would come to that student about the idea of morphine right he's the only one who could do it right right so she went to the field right and she lied down right um and ball was eight and drank for seven and he's and he went to his heart was good and he went to sleep right and she had a little lighting uncovered his feet and she lied there in the middle and he woke up and he sees a woman lying in his feet who are you i am ruth your maidservant spread your wing over your maidservant because you are my redeemer that's what nami wanted he should he should spell it out there right otherwise he wouldn't agree right right you're the one who must do it and he said blessed are you do i share my daughter you've done even more kindness now than the first time it's not to go after the boys you know you're a girl go to the bar girls have some boyfriends right right i'm an old man you're coming to me right my door don't be afraid everything you tell me i will do because all the people in my gate know that you're a woman of valor don't think someone's gonna talk me out of it they all know how great you are there's only one technical problem how indeed i am a redeemer but there's someone close to me i'm a nephew of ellie mello but he's got a brother still alive who's a closer relative and he gets the first chance right right spend the night in the morning if he will redeem you good something his name was toph his name was good he doesn't say the guy's name right maybe toph he'll redeem you will deem you and if not he will not decide to redeem your next page then i will give you a stay sustain the morning and she spent the night in the morning in his feet and the rabbit said he had a tremendous desire for her that night after all she's not married he's not married this is before the prohibition of being alone right she wasn't a needle right right and he controlled himself you know it's compared to la pal even luckies you know when when king and saul wanted to kill david and david had to run away saul took david's wife and gave him two and gave it to a different man she he's all considered that david's marriage was not valid for some reason and gave him over to a guy named polish palpatine but paul even lucas felt that david's marriage was valid right so he didn't touch her he lived with her years he put a sword between their bed i can't cross the bed right right and then when david came and took her back he couldn't think of actually because i didn't touch her right he was crying why was he crying because he had an opportunity to overcome the eight sahara right so similarly the boys had this tremendous desire and he controlled himself until the morning and she lived until the morning right and then he said leave before it still was light it's still dark you know people shouldn't see you going to say rumors about other girls spending the night in the red yo don't you see you're right right and give me your current kerchief and she put in her kerchief six grains of grain of what six grains and some say and bring the team up that's breakfast that's your breakfast by the time lunch comes around it'll be settled that's one interpretation the rabbis say he was hinting to her that we're going to have a child who's going to be mashiach is going to be famous for six attributes wisdom understanding counsel greatness knowledge fear of god that's hinting to the shia it's going to come from us all right i want to stop for a minute point that a historical overview over here now there are three very strange stories in the torah right and there's a common denominator between them first strange story is the story of lote and his daughters sodom is being destroyed and lode is saved his wife turns around and wants a pillar of assault right and she sees it came with his two daughters the daughters made a dreadful mistake they thought the whole world was good story just like you heard about the flood no we're all dry right the mother is dead the father's old man if the father died they'll be the only human beings left on planet earth that's frightening right right right what should they do about it so who did cain and abel married do you know okay and abel married their sisters they're sisters they had twin sisters right there there was no one else who got allowed because there was no one else come to marry right girl once came back from a date she told me if that was the last man on planet earth i'd marry a tree okay anyway but they had no choice so they got their father drunk and they got pregnant from their father right incest and the older daughter called us maya from father right incest trade story another strange story much later judah and toba judas has thomas marries his sons and his sons both die and she sees you're not going to marry the family so she dressed herself like a prostitute and she seduces judah right right prostitute right right strange story right right and the third strange story is the book of ruth intermarriage right here's incest his prostitute he's into marriage what's the common denominator don't say sex what's the common denominator right continuation king david king david from tamar from from from from uh lo and his daughters comes moah from off comes ruth right from david from uh from not from uh tomorrow and judah comes boaz boros marries ruth three generations later king david and bashir isn't that a strange way for king david to come around right the story of that moses is dead married is on wasn't that also an inappropriate relationship fine good but okay but that's not really what we're talking about now you're right that's what i'm talking about the fact that king david came along by three strange acts isn't that strange there must be some explanation behind that right right and the capitalists say the capitalists say yes god wants to bring us king david the messiah and we don't deserve it there's a satan up there in heaven the prosecutor he says the jews don't deserve king david and he's right otherwise we guess what he said he's right right we don't deserve him but god in his infinite mercy wants to bring us king david in spite of that so he's got to do it so to speak through the back door when the satan isn't looking oh that's incest that's okay oh that's prostitute that's okay all of a sudden when he got king david but he says i found my cursed servant david where did he find him in saddam he says your daughters hanim the daughters that are found in saddam you see lot was a great man he had a recessive gene the other sister jean is the guy who was a redhead his kids aren't ready so his grandson comes back later do load was the disciple of abraham he messed it up he got messed up someone got messed up right right but the that gene of lo came back many years later through ruth to the jewish people and that was king david that was king david so god had to do it a roundabout way in order that the satan shouldn't get complained right right right see how everything's connected okay so um she gave her the six of the six sixth range we were in page 1272 and she came to her mother-in-law who are you and who you know she was right it was still dark i thought you couldn't see it through the middle of the night right over here right and then she told her what happened with the man dead and she gave me six barley to give to you right and then don't don't go empty to your mother-in-law and she said return my daughter until we'll find out what's happening the guy will not rest and leave him he'll settle the matter very well chapter four and balls went up to the gay and immediately he found the redeemer right he's got president the rabbi said god flew him over there right what would it be what would happen what would happen if this guy was out of town he was in america doing mikey money right bullets just had a few days to live he died the next day after mary ruth right right he had two days to live right what's going to happen with shia right god flew this guy there he goes and he finds it right there right there right and he says to him come over here plow the ammonia pull him on him as mr x you know he doesn't say he'll say his name to embarrass him right and he went and he sat down and he took ten men to advertise the act sits down and he sat down he says you know the portion of our field that our brother eliminated me sold it had returned from the field of moab and i said i will reveal i will reveal your ears saying buy it right opposite the elders right if you do me good and if not i'm after you tell me because i'm after you right you're the first one and i'm after you right there's no problem i will be able to deem the field but there's one catch ruth you have to marry ruth the moabites now another introduction another important fact the torah says and moabite convert cannot enter the jewish people we have the book of deuteronomy and moabite who converts you're not allowed to marry them why because when we were going out of egypt they're our cousins they didn't say they they would survive because of the mercy because of abraham and they didn't come out to meet us with food and water right they're not kindness don't marry them even they're converts right but there was a not well known oral tradition right that that only applied to male morphites and not females moabivillo marvin but that was not well known how often do you think it happened that the female boyfriend marries you did not very often right right they didn't know about it even three generations later king david king david kills goliath and saul promises his daughter as a wife and the court of saud was a big controversy how can you have your daughter american david he's a descendant of ruth i'm all about all right so one guy gets up with a sword and he says if you don't believe me i'm going to cut you with a sword i have a tradition from samuel the prophet muhammad and not murphy male and not female and that's when he was settled so this guy this guy told he didn't know this law he didn't know that but boaz knew the law but he didn't or even if he didn't know possibly didn't know he didn't fool him but he didn't want to marry her you know i married someone a convert why i'm a big i have a lot of age why should i marry a low-converter why should i marry her i didn't want to marry her whatever it was so so ellie mellock said but boaz tells alibaba he said to him you know um you want to be fine i'll remember verse five he says in the day when you acquired the fields from the army and from ruth the moabite the wife of the dead she was the wife of maklon you required her to establish the name of the dead honest as i said before when they redeem a field if it was a widow so the guy redeemed the field would marry the weirdo similar to ye boom in order that he should remember that was the field that looked remember that name on this field right and the goal says what i should marry him alright i'm not able to redeem her i can't do it i'll destroy my inheritance you do it don't call me i'll call you i'm out i can't do it right and this was the custom in israel when they would establish something they would take over they have a customer from khalifan we pick up i pick up your handkerchief and you acquire my field right at a wedding the bride will pick up a handkerchief to make a kenyan on the marriage contract right they would do with the handkerchief things do with the shoe they would take off their shoe and give it to him they would give it to his friend and this is the way it was done and the goal said to pause you buy it and take off a shoe right and both said to the elders all the people you're witnesses that i have acquired everything that we met and all the killian and makhan all the fields from mummy and ruth the morphite the wife of malcolm here close to his wife you see that her original conversion was valid because she was married to makalon he's called the wife of maklan you see that from here right right i've acquired for a wife to establish the name of the dead under this convergence like like as an iphone and he should not have his name shall be caught from the people right from the gate of his place you are witnesses and the people said and the gate of all the elders said we are witnesses right may god this woman who's giving into your house like rachel and leia notice that she's rachel first who's talking here the tribe of judah judah was the sons of leia even the sons of leia recognized that rachel was the main wife right and who was their father lover was such a great guy even though ruth was the daughter of uh a moabite king right but like rachel and leia that built both in the house of israel and duvalier valeri and ephrath's and the house should be like the house of peres gave birth to number here we're bringing tomorrow and parrots again who are the ancestors of the boaz right from the seed which god gave you from this girl and boaz took ruth and he became his wife and she came upon her and she got pregnant right and she had a son what do the people say this old rabbi right he has such a good reputation he was a judge for so many years in his old age he goes up to some girl i'm all my girl what's new mary mom my girl i'm sure nobody attended the wedding right next morning he dies what do people say serves him right american wild white girl i'm sure no one attended the funeral but he was supposed to die he was an old man god preserved him for this one purpose to be the father of the davidic dynasty right and the women said to the army bless hashem with not count you the redeemer until today right and he called his name in israel and shall be a whole he will hold you and your kids support you in your older age because your daughter that you love has given birth to him he's better to you than seven sons she's better than seven sons right and mommy took the child and she was his nervous right and the people said someone was brother he said foreign right and he called his name oh bod he's the father of yeshua the father of david and now the book of ruth ends with the lineage these are the enemies of parrots periscope birthday catzeron gave birth to rama brought to me was the prince of judah right in the times that he was the brother-in-law of aaron right he jumped to the red sea until up to his nose and split very great man and he had four sons he had four sons one son was one son was the father of nami that was alive's brother third son was told the guy didn't want to marry and the fourth son was salma and someone gave birth to boas that was moa's father they were four brothers right and boy gave birth to over and over gave birth to each a birth to david who wrote this book who could get away with the story only samuel the prophet how can anyone get away with it you know king david you know his grandmother was the daughter of yes arafat anyone could get away with that right we'll get away with that right oh my king david and she's called the mother of royalty she lived a very long life ruth she lived to see her great great grandson king solomon we find solomon had on his on his table sat the mother of chris from raw malcolm's of kingdom with ruth right right and what's the lesson we're supposed to learn from here how one has to accept the torah ruth left everything behind her family her religion to become part of the jewish people right to go with an old lady she'll die through nothing right because she wanted to be a jew so we have to come us and accept the torah the same way right another thing we learned from here the idea of kindness right right see how important kindness is right torah begins with kindness and ends with kindness in the beginning of torah god becomes a tailor he makes clothing for aaron adam and eve and they're sorry he's a member of the of the barrel society he embarrassed he buries motion right right abimele didn't want to do kindness right he left his people he was dead right orpah didn't do kindness she left her mother-in-law she was out ruth left everything and she came to be part of the jewish people and for her mother-in-law take care of her mother-in-law right and bo was an old man he marries this this convert who else would marry her right right they didn't know about the law of all white right he was the only one who knew the law right right right no one else would marry her in harrison right he died the next day he was it god wanted it to live that one day in order that he should be there of jonathan so we see how important kindness is and the most important lesson we learn is this is an example about this wonderful great woman right accepted upon ourselves the torah we come to the surest we accept upon ourselves the torah it's the example of ruth to teach us how we have to go about accepting the torah thank you very much you