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Click on the links below to read the essays:<\/p>\r\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Stu Halpern - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/217\/post\/55288\">Struggles, Storytelling, And Salvation<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Malka Fleischmann - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/218\/post\/55349\">The Story of Deveikut<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Tamara Mann Tweel - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/221\/post\/55702\">Ruth As A Paradigm Of Elder Care<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Stu Halpern - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/223\/post\/55831\">Ruth And Naomi and The Nature of Friendship<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ronnie Perelis - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/224\/post\/55902\">Border Crossings<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Zvi Romm - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/225\/post\/55983\">Ruth and Contemporary Conversion: Lessons in Ahavat HaGer<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Saul Berman - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/226\/post\/56137\">Immigration: A Perspective from Biblical Narrative and Law<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Zev Eleff - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/228\/post\/56241\">For Insiders or Outsiders? The Book of Ruth\u2019s American Jewish Reception<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ilana Kurshan - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/229\/post\/56298\">Love In The Time Of Omer<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Yael Ziegler - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/230\/post\/56368\">The Roots of the Book of Ruth: Lot and Abraham<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Shalom Carmy - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/231\/post\/56520\">David\u2019s Ancestry and the Meaning of Ruth<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Simi Peters - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/232\/post\/56525\">Bread, Vinegar, and Destiny<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Malka Simkovich- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/234\/post\/56793\">Ruth, the Rabbis, and Jewish Peoplehood<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Dov Lerner - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/235\/post\/56811\">Malbim\u2019s Dispassionate Scripture: Naomi\u2019s Lament Turned Lecture<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>In addition, here is a five-part series by Jennifer Raskas. She writes:<\/p>\r\n<p><em>The book of Ruth starts with the words, \u201cAnd it came to pass in the days that the <\/em>shoftim<em>, judges judged\u201d\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Ruth.1.1?lang=he-en&amp;utm_source=929.org.il&amp;utm_medium=sefaria_linker\">Ruth 1:1<\/a>). These words set the book of Ruth in the time period of the Shoftim, Judges. When we take a deeper look at the last five chapters of the book of Judges, we see many signs that the book of Ruth actually serves as a \u201cTikkun,\u201d or correction, for many of the terrible acts that the Israelites perform in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sefaria.org\/Judges.17-21?lang=he-en&amp;utm_source=929.org.il&amp;utm_medium=sefaria_linker\">Judges chapters 17-21<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: upper-roman;\">\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/228\/post\/56266\">Underneath Superficial Piety Lies A Deep Depravity<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/229\/post\/56309\">Selfish v. 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It opens on a musical, romantic note: <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me sing for my beloved \/ a song of my lover about his vineyard \/\/ My beloved had a vineyard \/ on a fruitful hill.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are three characters: the singers, his beloved (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dod<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), and the beloved\u2019s vineyard. The vintner works hard: \u201cHe broke the ground, cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower inside it, he even hewed a wine press in it,\u201d but then things turn sour: \u201cfor he hoped it would yield grapes, but it produced sour grapes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is sad, all would agree. How tragic it is depends on other circumstances to which we are not privy. Was this just a luxury vineyard, for indulgence? Was it his livelihood? What will happen now? But the song then takes a strange turn, addressing the audience directly, and turning them from aesthetically-oriented bystanders into legally responsible jurists: \u201cNow, then, residents of Jerusalem and people of Judah, be the judges between me and my vineyard!\u201d Suddenly the \u201cbeloved\u201d is gone, as well, collapsed into the persona of the singer, and we find out that he was just #askingforafriend, not actually asking for a friend. And suddenly what was a sad story has turned into a lawsuit, with the vineyard as the defendant!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat more could have been done for my vineyard,\u201d wails the singer? And without waiting for any answers at all, he takes the law into his own hands, vowing a violent (and, of course, self-destructive) punishment for the uncooperative vineyard: \u201cI will remove its hedge, that it may be ravaged \/ I will break down its wall, that it may be trampled.\u201d And then there is one last turn, within the metaphor, that suddenly makes everything clear: \u201cI will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a stunning line. Only one character could command the clouds to not rain, and thus the singer \/ vintner is revealed to be none other than God. And if that is true \u2013 well, the vineyard too may not be a regular vineyard. And indeed, says the prophet, \u201cthe seedlings he lovingly tended are the people of Judah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what did they do wrong? \u201cHe hoped for justice (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mishpat<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but behold, bloodshed (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mispa\u1e25<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">); for righteousness (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1e63edaqa<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but behold, screams (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1e63e\u2018aqa<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)!\u201d These word pairs are phonetically similar, and that similarity seems to suggest just how fine the line is between justice and violence, between a civil society and one that descends into chaos and lawlessness. It takes a lot of investment, and good raw materials, and even then, there are no guaranteed results. For God, though, failure is not just cause for lament, but for punishment and eradication. 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Each of them (vss. 8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22) is introduced by <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hoy<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, usually an exclamation of woe. We shall focus our attention on this one: \u201cWoe, those who haul sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity as with cart ropes\u201d (18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than treat sin and iniquity, and cords and ropes, as complete synonyms, Malbim, typically, distinguishes between them.* In his exegetical lexicon, sin (<em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avon<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is committed after rational deliberation, while iniquity (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chata`a<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) occurs when one is overcome by desire. Cords (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chevel<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) have but a single strand, while ropes (<em>`<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avot<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are woven of multiple strands. Bearing these distinctions in mind, here is his commentary:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man is perpetually at war with himself. Whenever he is confronted by something pleasing that is prohibited to him, his desire to enjoy it awakens, while his intellect warns him not to touch it on account of God\u2019s commandment. If desire wins and he transgresses the commandment, Sacred Scripture calls this a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chet<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, because he has missed the mark [cf. Judges 20:16] and is guilty of the transgression. Those who commit such iniquities are filled with remorse, because after they satisfy their desires their eyes are opened, and they recognize their mistake.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There other people who when they are incited by desire to transgress a commandment and see that intellect is opposing them, summon intellect to assist desire by repudiating the commandment, its objective, its reward, or its punishment. This is called `<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because they deliberately skewed their behavior, and such people will never feel remorse. This is the type whom the prophet is rebuking here, as it states in the subsequent verse \u201cWho say, Let Him speed, let Him hasten His purpose\u201d (19); they deny that God punishes\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We, too, in our experience, have surely seen both categories. 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The prophet introduces his friend, who planted a vineyard in fer\u00adtile soil, and did all in his power to cultivate its growth:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I will sing now of my friend, a song of my beloved\u2019s vineyard \u2013 my friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside, and he dug it and cleared it of stones and he planted it with the choicest of vines, and he built a tower within it, and hewed out a winepress within it \u2013 and he hoped it would produce good grapes, but it produced bad grapes. (5:1\u20132)<\/p>\r\n<p>The prophet described the owner\u2019s devotion to his vineyard. Both Isaiah and his listeners were well aware of the labor involved in planting on the Judean hills; its rocky terrain requires particular effort, and there is much work to be done even before beginning to plant\u2026. But despite his efforts, the choice vine, and the fertile soil, he suffered grave disappointment. Why did the vineyard produce \u201cbad grapes,\u201d and what do these \u201cbad grapes\u201d represent? The song of the vineyard, its opening evocative of the Song of Songs, is transformed from an ode into a lamentation.<\/p>\r\n<p>The \u201cbeloved\u201d (owner) then turns to the dwellers of Jerusalem and Judah, asking them to judge him and his vineyard, claiming that he did all in his power to ensure the success of his crop: \"What more could be done for My vineyard that I did not do?\" (5:3).<\/p>\r\n<p>Of course, the question is rhetorical; the prophet provides the answer. The beloved vineyard tender decrees:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And now, I will tell you what I shall do to my vineyard: Remove its fence, and it will be destroyed. Break down its wall, and it will be trampled. I will leave it as a wasteland, without pruning or weeding and thorn and thistle will grow, and I will command the clouds not to rain down upon it. (5:5\u20136)<\/p>\r\n<p>The vineyard tender feels anger towards his vineyard for producing bad fruit, and unleashes his wrath upon it. The fence and the wall, pre\u00adviously unmentioned, further convey how much effort was put into this vineyard. Removing the fence exposes the vineyard to grazing goats, and removing the stone wall allows cattle and sheep to enter and trample the vines.<\/p>\r\n<p>After the vineyard tender removes the vineyard\u2019s protection, he ceases to care for it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Only after this friend has unleashed his frustration upon the rogue vineyard is another secret revealed, \u201cI will command the clouds not to rain down upon it.\u201d With this statement, the vineyard tender\u2019s true identity is revealed to the prophet\u2019s audience. The friend, the vine\u00adyard tender, is He who makes the rain fall. 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How can God, already holy, \u201cbecome holy,\u201d and how does <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzedakah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (righteousness) accomplish that?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books have been written in an attempt to pinpoint the nature of holiness, but we might gain some insight even from a brief consideration of a few cases.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take, for instance, the holiness of time. Shabbat might be said to represent a core of holiness of time instilled by God into the very fabric of creation, a day set aside for a purpose (the nature of which is beyond our scope). The holidays are similarly designated, but through a mix of divine decree (determining on which dates they occur) and human action (determining when each month begins, and thereby, when those holy dates fall out). Once established, the holiness of these days is expressed through action: laws of what we do and don\u2019t do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The holiness of place shows a similar pattern. God chose the land of Canaan, but what actually sanctified that land was human conquest; He chose the site of the Temple, but its holiness was actualized through human action. And once a place is established as \u201choly,\u201d it has special rules. Holiness is defined by, and guides, action.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote: \u201cHoliness does not wink at us from \u201cbeyond\u201d\u2026but appears in our actual, very real lives\u2026 rooted in the highest heavens\u2026 the halakhic conception of holiness [means]\u2026 actualizing the Halakhah in the empirical world\u2026\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Halakhic Man<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, p.46-47)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could we be so bold as to suggest that Isaiah might be hinting something similar in relation to God Himself?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe holy God\u201d: God is already holy, because He says so. But that does not mean He removes Himself entirely from this world, too loftily spiritual to bother with the physical. Instead, He performs active functions in this world \u2013 such as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzedakah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 and thereby actualizes His own innate holiness. God, who is already holy, becomes yet further sanctified through <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzedakah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> towards His creations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, words like \u201choly\u201d and \u201crighteous\u201d are human words, fit for human comprehension (or at least, human attempts at human comprehension); as Maimonides and others remind us, we cannot really describe God in our terms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we try anyway, partly to give us something to emulate. We call Him merciful, so that we have a framework through which to consider His actions and to model ourselves on those actions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that brings us to a third realm of holiness: the holiness of a person. \u201cBe holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy\u201d (Leviticus 19:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we use words to tell ourselves that God, who is innately holy, becomes truly holy through His righteous actions in this world, then perhaps we will learn that we, who are innately holy (designated for a purpose) yet carry a mandate to actualize our holiness, can achieve that goal \u2013 at least in part \u2013 through righteous action as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the holy people become holy through tzedakah.<\/span><\/em><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64919,"alt":"","title":"is5-serve the 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The prophecies in the chapter allude to a time of wealth and well-being. In the allegory in the first part of the chapter, the Vineyard is well irrigated, and there is a watchtower and a winery. The sinners in the second half of the chapter, enjoy the bounty of large houses, fruitful fields, time and money to enjoy parties. The reality that is described fits the time of King Uzziah. Wealth and success that a certain segment of the population enjoys greatly (but only a certain segment!). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And who is the enemy who comes and punishes the sinners? This isn\u2019t stated explicitly, but during Isaiah\u2019s time, the army that was considered a war machine such as this was Assyria. Assyria will become the dominant empire, thanks to its military prowess, that will conquer all the lands of the region. 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