May 2019
14
Tomorrow I will be flying out of town to perform a wedding and will be gone for a full week. I have many last-minute preparation…
May 2019
13
Having decided to leave Moab, Noami and her two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, took the road west toward the Jordan River cro…
May 2019
11
The law of illegitimate birth in Deuteronomy 23:2, 3 was not meant to be a permanent ban on Moabites entering the kahal (assembl…
May 2019
10
The apostle Paul tells us that “the law is spiritual” (Romans 7:14). Many have turned this into an excuse for sin or to set asid…
May 2019
09
After Elimelech and his two sons died in Moab, Naomi was left alone with her two daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah. Ruth 1:6, 7 s…
May 2019
08
The Book of Ruth begins by introducing us to the family of Elimelech and the reason for their sojourn in Moab. Ruth 1:1, 2 says,…
May 2019
07
The story of Ruth took place in the time of the Judges, as the first verse tells us, and so it is placed immediately after the B…
May 2019
06
In Jewish liturgy, the Book of Ruth is read at Pentecost. As such, its main theme is marriage and sonship, for Ruth plays the ro…