I love the story of Ruth in the Old Testament book that bears her name. Naomi and her husband and two sons were from Bethlehem. Because of a famine, they relocated to Moab, a neighboring country where ...

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Thanks for all the excellent e-mails about the Song of Songs. Several of you argued that the maiden’s “navel” is not her navel, if you get my (southward) drift. My brief research didn’t settle the ...

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, ...

Ruth’s love for her mother-in-law—“Where you go, I will go”—led her to an unexpected, new love with Boaz. Moved by Ruth’s selflessness, Boaz invites Ruth to glean grain from his field. His generosity, ...

Over the past 40 years of teaching and reading Ruth during the holiday of Shavuot, I’ve developed a relationship with all the characters. When I was younger, I did not like Naomi (even though we have ...