Beyond its being an inspiring story, The Book of Ruth can be enjoyed as a moving example of how tradition can grow. Shavuot, at first a biblical harvest festival, evolved or was shifted by rabbinical ...
One of the most charming and significant stories in the Bible is that of Ruth, the Moabitess. We read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, because the festival celebrates the ingathering ...
In ancient days, in the land of Moab, a young girl named Ruth often felt like a stranger among her people. She felt different from her family and from her friends. Her closest friend, a girl named ...
The book of Ruth begins with the line, “In the days when the judges judged’ (וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ שְׁפֹ֣ט הַשֹּׁפְטִ֔ים, Ruth 1:1). The Book of Ruth, traditionally read as part of the service on Shavuot, ...
What defines Judaism and the Jewish people? Ethnicity/Race? Or Religious Culture and Practice? The Book of Ruth, that we read in a couple of days on Shavuot, provides a complex answer. It’s a ...
The first time I read aloud from the Book of Ruth was at the marriage of friends at the Catholic Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on New York’s Upper East Side. My friends had asked me to select a few ...
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