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Megilat Ruth Redemptive Kindness by Sara Malka Reichman
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thank you so much and OU Israel and
represent Abby learn's particular treat
to go after you because many many years
ago when I was young a young single girl
I used to follow Lear around and go to
her tusum so it's it's a and a
treat um saot gives us a very very rare
window uh because of its Rich depiction
of interactions between people into
their relationship in a way that I think
we don't see so often elsewhere in tanak
and there are two themes that are learn
made in terms of their relevance to our
times right now uh in sa that I want to
focus on tonight one of them is but a
very unique brand of that we find in sa
and the other one is redemption G and
even in a short brief share about saer
root we cannot ignore the question the
big glaring question question and saer
and that is what in the world was going
on that night in The Silo was there not
a better way to set up
this um the medish tells us that rut's
name gives us insight into who she
was rut she was able to see to penetrate
straight through to the words of her
mother-in-law rut's Essence was an
ability to see deeply into the character
of others Nai by her own
description we know that she was not no
longer a
very um young fun happy person to be
around she calls herself Mara and yet
rut sees the value of this person it's
almost uh impossible to to tease apart
when we're reading about R and Naomi
wait a second is she following Nai
because of her attachment to Nai or is
she following Nai because of her being
drawn into to Judaism but we know that
because she sees the depth and value of
who Nami is as a person R comes to
appreciate that all that naami is is
rooted in a Tor lifestyle and and who
naami is is the result of the Torah and
mitzvot that she has practiced her whole
life so rud is able to look at this
person who everybody gaws at when she
returns to bleim and nobody could
believe that this the same aristocratic
happy uh person with Good Fortune as she
was before and yet root conceit to the
core of who she is and the relationships
in saer root are all based on this
ability to see who the person is it's
what enables people to do in a
meaningful way so that they know what
the person's needs are they can provide
the right words that are bombs to the
Soul at the right moment uh moving on to
boas who definitely shares this trait
boas of course takes notice of who rut
is realizes that she's so different than
everyone else and inquires about her and
as a result of him appreciating theed
she's done uh he is inspired to take
special care of her Beyond whatever his
obligations of leet were and to provide
for her make sure that she and Nami are
provided for with dignity and and
definitely beyond their
needs uh in order to really understand
what's going on with boas the way he
views rut and the way we'll see he views
even his farm hands we have to look a
little closer at what goes on that night
in The
Silo um the med tells
us that when a person is a state in is
in a state of fear it acts as that fear
acts as a stumbling block in their way
and boas is one of the two examples the
mid gives as somebody who rather than
allowing his fear to trip him up to be a
stumbling block for him has B trusts
relies in Hashem and therefore he is
protected and the metress is referring
to This Moment In The Silo it says that
it would have been expected reasonable
for boas to curse at rud to say what are
you doing do you know who I am get out
of here the word used in the medish is
to curse at her and yet he does the
opposite He blesses
her and to understand this we need to
see it in the context of two other
events um there's often spoken about the
various events that lead up to uh the
unions uh where there is the conception
of the progyny who will be the ancestors
of the davidic line and and eventually
hopefully soon mashia Ben David um these
three unions are all what they have in
common uh is that they're all shrouded
in darkness um different different sorts
of Darkness uh Rak my father points out
the similarities and the differences
first we have lot and his daughters
where the confusion and darkness is born
of drunkenness and uh L doesn't know
what he's doing uh then we have Tamar
who when she is um seducing Yehuda is
wearing a disguise so he has no idea
what he is doing and here we come to
Boaz and rut and the Darkness here is
the darkness of of night it's the
darkness of night and really boas has
two options he can run away curse her
leave or he can give into the Yahara
which is what his two predecessors did
but he chooses a third choice and that
is he says we're going to leave this
pattern of darkness and confusion Le
poab we're going to wait till we have
the clarity of mourning and specifically
he's waiting for the clarity that uh
Hala will uh the the light that Hala
will shed on the situation he says we're
going to find out is there a goel is
there a closer goel than me in this
situation
let's wait and we'll wait till we have
the clarity of morning and this is what
the m means when it tells
us what affords boas this presence of
mind at that moment so um again uh also
rakha Poco continues and he says that
the gumar teaches us that uh there are
three things that the ba shata the uh
Earthly courts decided which received
the this a stamp of approval from the ba
and Shalala from the Heavenly courts and
one of them is the idea that a person
can greet others with the name of Hashem
which we would think would be using
hashem's name in vain now the person who
instituted that practice was boas the
Von teaches us that if you want to
really know a person you look at the
Torah that they taught us what does it
mean that boas taught us that when you
greet a person it is not using hashem's
name in Vin if you would address them
with hashem's name so boas greets his
farm hands not the aristocracy not even
Nam or root not someone prestigious but
his farm Hands by saying
Hashem when he comes and he encounters
them that say that rot is uh picking up
the sheaves of rain he says IM and they
respond to him because they've been
trained and they say back to boas
boas sees the Divine in every single
person even in his farm hands and so he
is the one who institutes for us the
practice of greeting someone with the
name of Hashem and this is what affords
him that presence of mind that night in
The Silo he looks at rut at something
that looks like a very questionable at
best act but he sees her good intentions
he sees the Divinity in her he sees The
Godly in her and he sees her motives and
so he's able to
say he's able to see the Beauty and the
in what she's doing and these
relationships in saer Brut are Fabrics
that are woven from acts ofad but
specifically these acts ofad where
people could really look and appreciate
the other
people um right now I think that we're
seeing an at least in my lifetime an
unprecedented level ofad and I want to
return to that idea soon as we we put
this theme on hold for a moment
something else that there is in common
in all these three unions that uh will
give forth to the davidic linh is the
fact that they're all initiated by women
these are encounters between men and
women and even though they're in ancient
times there are
initiated by women what can we learn
from that so the Sid teaches us
something very
interesting he says based on the NAA in
safer yahu that says that in the time of
mashia is G women will either cause the
actions of men or women will initiate
the relationship with men he says that
this is actually really a metaphor that
this is talking about about the one who
is always the woman in the relationship
with Hashem and that is Kess Israel and
he says once upon a time ago right after
the there was a group of people called
the m and they did not listen to mosha
they said you know what we made a
mistake not wanting to enter our St
we're going to go now we're g to push
our way in and we're going to go anyway
and mosha R War warns them he
says points out that whenever it
says teach us this specific time is the
it's the exception there's going to be
another time where it's going to work
ROK says that time is the time the era
of mashia in the time of mashia Amel the
woman in the relationship is going to
initiate before it's the right time
before the time is right for mashia is
am is going to return and they're going
to say Hashem now they're going to push
forth like the MIM intended to like they
wanted to and they're going to say
Hashem it's time for the G it's time for
the Redemption now and this is why all
of these initiations were initiated all
these relationships were initiated by
women because they are all foreshadowing
the time of mashia the Hilo but then
will be something that is M it will be
successful the efforts of
am they will be successful in the time
of mash we've seen this unprecedented
level ofed
between vastly different groups of
society and I really uh seeing it happen
here um and just getting to witness
what's going on in in Eris I don't see
what's going on outside of ER but in
Amis and Eris
uh is is I think a similar brand ofad
that we see in safer root it's people
opening their eyes up and
seeing uh a and Aura in parts of am that
each other that the other parts may have
previously dismissed it's looking and
seeing that people who we would not have
expected possess that Jewish um
incredible gura and it's a gura that's
exhibiting itself really in the realm of
hassad even though that might sound
contradictory it's it's a a heroism
that's specifically within the realm of
doing kindness on on you know in in the
micro and on very great levels in the
macro for other people and um it is my
hope that we're gonna push forth like uh
says we can in the time of mashia as as
Ru did that night um and and as the
other de did the other had bringing
forth the progeny that will bring to
mashia benid um so I I just uh what I
doav for maybe we could all doav for
everybody has their own sp out and uh
when I doin for all of uh
our all of the soldiers and and
everybody who were who is uh putting
their life on the line right now I say
you know Hashem bring them back but
don't just bring them back don't just
bring us a sweeping Yeshua here for Amy
right now at this very moment in time in
2023 let's take it all the way let's do
in that this is the ultimate Yeshua
let's Davin that this is a moment in
time that we can push through
as and say Hashem this is it bring us to
Yeshua in this war but bring us at this
moment the ultimate Redemption and
hopefully the that we're all doing will
bring and bring to
this