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Ruth #3: In Middle of the Night

Sometimes, To Acheive Greatness, You Have To Take Risks.

1 hr 7 min

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In Middle of the Night- Sometimes, To Acheive Greatness, You Have To Take Risks. Studying the Book of Ruth, Class 3

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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?


    Thanks for your help.


     

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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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