Megillas Rus, Perek 1 Part 1/2

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why is Megillas Rus read on Shavuos? The yichus of David HaMelech, whose yahrzeit and birthday fall on Shavuos, comes from Rus, the story is set in the harvest season, and everything in it is chesed. Rashi places the story in the time of Boaz as a shofet. The opening pesukim tell how Elimelech left Beis Lechem for Moav during a famine and died there, and how his two sons died after marrying Moabite women.

Key points

• Shmuel HaNavi wrote Megillas Rus, along with Sefer Shoftim and Sefer Shmuel.
• One suggestion, not seen in print: Rus was a giores who accepted the Torah herself.
• Rashi reads Efrasim either as dignitaries or as people who came from Efrat.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Who wrote Megillas Rus
2. 0:53The era of the Shoftim
3. 1:56Why Rus is read on Shavuos
4. 4:15Custom of a bracha on Rus
5. 4:47Elimelech leaves for Moav
6. 5:48Reading the opening pesukim
7. 11:02The sons marry Moabite women
8. 12:18Naomi left alone

Topics

• Megillas Rus
• Shavuos
• David HaMelech
• Tzedakah