3 passagesc. 6th century CEHebrew / AramaicCC-BY
Individual passages from Ruth Rabbah (Lerner), indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
Not just the biblical Ruth, but the Ruth we meet in the rabbinic imagination – a figure so compelling that her story continues to resonate with us centuries later. The familiar ver...
In this little snippet of that text, we find a moment of intense connection, and a gentle but firm assertion of self. The verse But the Rabbis, in their insightful way, see so much...
The story of Ruth is all about that, about choosing a people, a faith, a destiny. And it begins with those famous words: "Your people shall be my people, and your God my God." (Rut...