{"id":75280,"date":"2020-05-27T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=75280"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:49:37","slug":"special-shavuot-readings-and-materials-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/special-shavuot-readings-and-materials-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Shavuot Readings And Materials (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"75280","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"490","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"From the book: \"Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth\" (Maggid\/Koren)","content":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55902\">Ronnie Perelis,\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55902\">Border Crossings <\/a>&#8211;<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;The outsider asks, \u201cCan I ever fully be part of the new community?\u201d The communities where the stranger has sought refuge, however, have to stretch themselves beyond their comfort to let this person in, to see him as one of their own, and to ease their doubts&#8230; perhaps they, like Ruth, can bring with them the unexpected promise of redemption&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55288\">Stuart Halpern,\u00a0<em>Struggles, Storytelling, And Salvation &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0&#8220;By telling the story of King David\u2019s genealogy through the Book of Ruth, the text is offering a nuanced framework for thinking about our own history, both national and familial&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55349\">Malka Fleischmann,\u00a0<em>The Story of Deveikut<\/em> &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;There is something about Ruth\u2019s staying &#8211; about the posture of clinging to her mother-in-law, Naomi &#8211; that has forever endeared her to the Jewish people. Instinctively, we fall deeply in love with her character for remaining&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55702\">Tamara Mann Tweel,\u00a0<em>Ruth As A Paradigm Of Elder Care<\/em><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Imagine, for a moment, that your mother-in-law confronts you on a desolate road. She is depressed and overwrought, needy and withdrawn, desperate for help and emotionally unreachable. Now imagine you are alone with the responsibility.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55831\">Stu Halpern,\u00a0<em>Ruth And Naomi and The Nature of Friendship<\/em><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Let us examine the Book of Ruth\u2019s portrayal of the nature of friendship, with a focus on the dynamic between Ruth and Naomi. This friendship is a unique one, as it is the only biblical friendship between two named women&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56241\">Zev Eleff,\u00a0<em>For Insiders or Outsiders? The Book of Ruth\u2019s American Jewish Reception<\/em> <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;In May 1912, the editors of a Boston Jewish weekly published an article on \u201cRuth and Boaz.\u201d The writers gleaned a number of items from the Book of Ruth, but one lesson, they admitted, stood out: Ruth the Moabite foreigner excelled in the Land of Israelites. Therefore, the journalists surmised, \u201cit makes no difference where a person is born&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/55983\">Zvi Romm,\u00a0<em>Ruth and Contemporary Conversion: Lessons in<\/em> Ahavat HaGer &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;I believe the primary conversion-related lessons to be drawn from the Book of Ruth have less to do with the convert\u2019s embrace of Judaism and more to do with the Jewish community\u2019s embrace of the convert&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56298\">Ilana Kurshan,\u00a0<em>Love In The Time Of Omer<\/em> &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;The period of the Omer, the seven weeks that link the barley offer\u00ading of Pesah with the wheat offering of Shavuot, is bookended by two love stories. When we first begin counting the Omer, we read Song of Songs, a celebration of young love in all its joy and innocence. Seven weeks later, on Shavuot, we chant the Book of Ruth, a more sobering tale of two women who rebuild a family devastated by loss&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56368\">Yael Ziegler,\u00a0<em>The Roots of the Book of Ruth: Lot and Abraham<\/em> &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;Both Ruth and her sister-in-law, Orpah, are Moabites, descendants of Lot. While Lot seems initially attached to his uncle Abraham, acting as a willing partner in Abraham\u2019s journey, Lot\u2019s pivotal decision to live among the evil people of Sodom ultimately shapes his destiny, that of his family, and that of his disreputable descendants, Ammon and Moab. That fateful decision returns full circle in the Book of Ruth&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56525\">Simi Peters,\u00a0<em>Bread, Vinegar, and Destiny<\/em> <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;when Boaz invites Ruth to eat with his servants, he is actually calling their shared descendants to a transformative destiny, irrevocably changing the entire world with a simple act. This alone is not sufficient to create a redemptive dynasty, however&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56520\">Shalom Carmy,\u00a0<em>David\u2019s Ancestry and the Meaning of Ruth<\/em> <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;How does the Book of Ruth help us think about David and his origins? My response is that Ruth comments on David\u2019s line, going back to Ruth, precisely by presenting her marriage within the framework of an idyllic, decidedly non-polemic story&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56811\">Dov Lerner,\u00a0<em>Malbim\u2019s Dispassionate Scripture: Naomi\u2019s Lament Turned Lecture<\/em> &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;For Malbim, the biblical text manifests its sanctity as a pedagogical document, not as a mythic drama; biblical figures are most profound when they are teaching, not merely feeling. Jephthah\u2019s failure and Naomi\u2019s fall are justifiably canonized \u2013 in Malbim\u2019s eyes \u2013 for their normative worth, not their emotive force&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/tag\/737\/post\/56793\">Malka Simkovich,\u00a0<em>Ruth, the Rabbis, and Jewish Peoplehood<\/em> &#8211;<\/a> &#8220;By keeping Ruth a Moabite and yet upholding her position as a pious convert, the Rabbis portray David as descending from both an Israelite and a non-Israelite, which in turn may justify the Rabbis\u2019 vision of a universal messianic rule overseen by the descendants of David\u2019s 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