“But Ruth said, ‘Don’t press me to leave you and stop following you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die; and there I will be buried. May Adonai bring […]

“Again they wept aloud. Then ‘Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye. But Rut stuck with her. She said, ‘Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god; go back, after your sister-in-law.’”-Ruth 1:14-15 There’s a very interesting theological question that arises concerning Orpah. Did she sin when she decided to leave Naomi […]

“Go back, my daughters; go your way; for I’m too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say, ‘I still have hope’; even if I had a husband tonight and bore sons; would you wait for them until they grew up? Would you refuse to marry, just for them? No, my daughters. […]

“Naomi said, ‘Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?‘”-Ruth 1:11 So Naomi has told her daughters-in-law Ruth and Orpah there couldn’t be anything more futile than to follow her back to the land of Israel to start […]

“Naomi said, ‘Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who could become your husbands?  Go back, my daughters; go your way; for I’m too old to have a husband. Even if I were to say, ‘I still have hope’; even if I […]