mini project- shavuot- Ori,Roni,Alona

story of Ruth-

part 1-

In the days of the judges, a well-regarded and wealthy family lived in Israel, Elimelech and Naomi and their 2 sons- Mahlon and Kalion.

There was a famine in Israel.

Elimelech didnt want the poor to knock on the door of their house and therefore, they moved to Moav.

Shortly afterwards God punished Elimelech and he died.

Mahlon and Kalion was looking for a brides and found the moavites Ruth and Orpah, but Mahlon and Kalion was died after a short time.

10 years later Naomi was lonely withand she decided to return to Israel, but she didnt want to go  Ruth and Orpah because they were gentiles, Orpha didnt came but Ruth insisted and wanted to come with Naomi werever she went.

Ruth and Naomi went to Israel together.

Part 2-

When Naomi and Ruth arrived in israel, everyone was stared at them,they didnt understand why Naomi looked like that, with dirty clothes, she came from a well-respected family,

in addition, they didnt understand who was walking next to her.

Part 3-

it was harvest season, Ruth told Naomi she was going to gather crops so they could have something to eat.

Rute came to the field plot and at that time Boaz, the leader in those days and a relative came to visit.

“Who is this girl for?” Boaz asked to know.

“What family does it belong to?”

“A Moabite girl is returning with Naomi from the fieldof Moab”, the foreman replied, recounting the experiences of the girl who left her father’s house to join the people of israel.

This impressed Boaz and hr told Ruth to join the girls working in his fields.

When she returned home, she told her mother-in-law what had happend to her.

Naomi was glad to hear that Ruth had met Boaz and that he had treated her so nicely.

Ruth spent th next few days in the Boaz field, until the wheat and barley harvest was over.

Part 4:

Naomi told Ruth to put on a nice dress and go at night to where Boaz slept and lie next to him and then when he gets up in the morning he will already understand what you want from him.

that night Ruth did what Naomi told her and went to where Boaz was, everything went as planned until Boaz got up in the night and was startled to suddenly see someone next to him.

Ruth explained herself and told him- “take me to be your wife”, Boaz told her that it was not possible because Elimelech’s brother- Tov, first chans and that they should ask his premission first.

how did Boaz agree to marry Ruth the moabite, even though the verse says that a jew isn’t allowed to marry a moabite?

it because he studied the verse “Ammonite and Moabite shall not come in the congregation of the lord” this: A moabite man isn’t allowed to come in the congregation of the Lord, but a Moabite women is allowed.

Early in the morning he asked her to return home, before people saw the women coming to the threshing floor.

Part 5-

In the morning, Boaz went to the city gate to meet his good uncle, when his uncle came he asked him to sit and called ten dignitaries, scholars and rabbis, and asked them to sit as well.
“Naomi, your sister-in-law and the wife of the late Elimelech, sold her fields. Since the Torah allows relatives to redeem the field, I am interested in doing so, but you have a right of way. Would you like to redeem the fields of Elimelech?”
The uncle, well, answered in the affirmative. “Then,” Boaz continued, “you must know that along with the field you will have to marry Ruth, Elimelech’s bride.”

Since he knew that Ruth was Moabite he refused and said “I do not want to marry her, if you want to redeem with her the field and with her Ruth”.
Ruth and Boaz got married and after the exciting wedding, Ruth became pregnant and had a son whose name works, Naomi raised him as if he were her son.
The Book of Ruth ends a few generations later: Oved was Yishai’s father, Wolish was born David, the other is David King of Israel.

Character i admire-

We chose Ruth because the way she chose to conduct herself seemed good and right to us.
She chose to leave her family to immigrate to Eretz Israel and in addition remained loyal to her mother-in-law and did not leave her alone.

What does accepting the Torah mean to us?-

The day the Torah was given to us is the day our lives changed.
It is a day when we have been given a way of life according to which we are obligated to walk and it provides us with values ​​and a different form of conduct for the better than that of other peoples and we should be thankful that we received the Torah because without it our lives would look different and perhaps less good.