Ruth the convert :):

At the beginning, there was hunger in the country. Elimelech from Beit Lechem moved to Moav with his wife- Naomi and Mahlon and Hilyon.

Elimelech passed away- Naomi’s husband, Naomi and her 2 sons stay alone.

Mahlon and Hilyon got married with Orpa and Ruth, that were none-Jewish girls.

After 10 years Mahlon and Hilyon passed away, without having children. Naomi, Orpa and Ruth left alone.

Naomi heard that the hunger in the country ended, she decided to return to her homeland.

She said to Orpa and Ruth to go back to their people, because she has no sons to marry them.

Orpa went to her people but Ruth insisted on staying with Naomi “עמך עמי ואלוהיך אלוהי”, and she says that only death will separate them.

Naomi and Ruth were poor, When they arrived to Beit Lehem Ruth went to pick crops from the poor’s land.

Boaz saw Ruth in the poor’s land and asked “how is this girl?”, his assistant told him that she is a none-jewish girl that came with Naomi.

Boaz met Ruth and told her that the whole field is in her possession.

Ruth asked Boaz why he did that?, and he answered that he heard what she did with Naomi after her husband passed away.

Boaz invited Ruth to meal in his home.

After that Ruth came to her home and when she woke up she went to pick from the field, from the morning to evening.

Ruth brings lot of food to home and Naomi asked her where she was? and Ruth told her about Boaz, Naomi told her that Boaz is one of their family and he can marry her.

Naomi told her to continue to pick from Boaz field.

Naomi told to Ruth to sleep in Boaz house and Ruth do it.

In the middle of the night, Boaz saw some girl in his bed and asked her “who are you?”, she told him that she is Ruth and Boaz is her savior.

Boaz told to Ruth that there is some man more close to her in family than boaz and she can marry him. but he told her that she can stay in his house until tomorrow and then they will ask the man if he wants to marry her, if not Boaz will.

In the morning, Boaz gave to Ruth 6 pures(goats) and Ruth came back to Naomi, Boaz went to met the man.

When Boaz met the man he took 10 people and savior, he asked the savior if he wants to marry Ruth?, the savior answered that Boaz can marry her and they needed to do Halitza ceremony.

Boaz come back and marry Ruth.

After that Ruth got pregnant and the name of their children was Oved, Yishai comes from Oved and David comes from Yishay.

Boaz:

we admire Boaz because when he saw Ruth he was very kind and nice to her, he let to her to pick from all his field and even after all married her!

He tried to help her when she was poor and not marry, when he saw her first in the poor’s land he invited her to his home for a meal and when she went to sleep in his house he let her.

he was her sovior:).

Accepting the Torah for us is a gift and a very big responsibility.

It is makes us feel special and we can learn about our history from it.

we love the Torah very much, we learn and do a lot of things in our days from the Torah.

The Torah is effecting in our life in almost all the things we do, in the morning, when we eating and even when we talking to our friends.

By:

Michal cohen
Maayan feldman
Ayelet Hallgarten