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  Kathryn Hauser -7 years ago

  I agree, sometimes one has to take risks to
  achieve greatness. And sometimes one
  takes risks and one’s own homies cannot recognize the great courage it is
  extracting.

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  Zlata Ehrenstein -7 years ago

  outstanding!

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  Daniel -11 years ago

  Yibum
  After ruth converted, she was no longer related to boaz. So why did boaz have to do yibum?
  

  
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    Anonymous -11 years ago

    Re: Yibum
    1) Some say that Ruth converted much earlier, before her marriage to Elimelech's son. So she was married to him after she was Jewish.
    

    
    2) this was not Yibum in its classical sense, as Boaz was any way not her brother in law. It was symbolic, in order to perpetuate the name and estate of the diseased, Machlon.

    
    

    
     

    
    

    
     

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  ben -11 years ago

  navigation
  can you please make it as easy to naviate this series for your parsha classes? i download a few at a time and it is challenging to find the right ones in the archives.

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  Anonymous -12 years ago

  questions
  thanks for a really great shiur, but i have a few questions regarding this lesson:
  
  1- If Yehuda instituted Yibum because he knew it would later be a part of the Torah, and kept the Torah before it was given, why could they resort to forbidden relations- ie Tamar marrying her father-in-law, in order to keep a Torah law? Even though it wasnt forbidden yet, it would be by matan torah- why was keeping yibum before matan torah more imortant than not having forbidden relationships before matan torah?
  
  2- How could what Lot's daughters did-having a relationship with their father- be called a kindness, if we know what they did was wrong and immoral?
  
  3- Could you please clarify the kri/kesiv point. How did Naomi saying 'me' show that what Rus was doing was not selfishly motivated?
  
  4- and lastly, if 2 husbands die, and the third brother/relative bears a child, like with Tamar, is the son considered the son of the first husband or the second?

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    Anonymous -12 years ago

    Re: questions
    I am looking into your question and will answer them shortly.

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

• May 30, 2011
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• 26 Iyyar 5771
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Classes in this Series

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  1 hr 15 min

  Ruth #1: Are You a Kisser Or a Cleaver? A Tale of Two Daughters In-Law

  Orpah and Goliath Go Into Therapy

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  1 hr 18 min

  Ruth #2: A Tale of 3 Relationships & a Triple Reincarnation

  Dignity & Loyalty In the Depths of Pain

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  1 hr 19 min

  Ruth #4: A Sword in the Beis Midrash -- Part 1

  The Debate on the Jewish Identity of Ruth & King David.

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  1 hr 9 min

  Ruth #5: A Sword in the Beis Midrash -- Part 2

  The Perspective of the Brisker Rav and the Ben Eish Chai on the Debate on the Jewish Identity of Ruth & King David

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  59 min

  Ruth #6: A Sword in the Beis Midrash -- Part 3

  Why King David Was Considered an Illegal Child

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  1 hr 24 min

  Ruth #7: A Sword in the Beis Midrash -- Part 4

  The Mysterious Lineage of Moshiach

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  1 hr 6 min

  Ruth #8: Why Do the Highest Souls End Up In the Lowest Places?

  The Secret Behind Boaz Removing the Shoe

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  1 hr 42 min

  Women's Shavuos Class

  Goliath and His Mother Go Into Therapy

  Ruth Vs. Arpah; David Vs. Goliath -- A Story of Unresolved Pain