Megillas Rus, Perek 4 Part 1/2

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the goel worry about his children's yichus if he marries Rus the Moavis, and not about himself? That question is set aside for a morning on a Gemara in Yevamos, and Boaz takes over the geulah through the shoe ceremony, a loose echo of yibum and chalitza. The people bless Rus to be like the mothers through whom Klal Yisrael continued, and like the house of Peretz, and the women bless Naomi after the child is born.

Key points

• The goel refuses Rus because the pasuk bars a convert from Amon and Moav, fearing for his children.
• The Gemara in Bava Metzia disputes whether Boaz or the goel gave the shoe.
• Boaz marries Rus so that Machlon's name stays on the nachala.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The goel's concern for his children
2. 2:00Taking off the shoe
3. 4:49Who gave the shoe to whom
4. 5:19Boaz calls the zekeinim as witnesses
5. 6:33Yehudah and Tamar
6. 7:46The bracha of the people
7. 9:28The birth and the women's bracha

Topics

• Megillas Rus
• Moavi v'lo Moavis
• Kinyan Chalipin
• Yibum and Chalitza