“Elimelekh, Na‘omi’s husband, died; and she was left, she and her two sons.  They took wives for themselves from the women of Mo’av; the name of the one was ‘Orpah; and the name of the other was Rut. They lived there for about ten years. Then Machlon and Kilyon died, both of them; and the […]

“The man’s name was Elimelekh, his wife’s name was Na‘omi, and his two sons were named Machlon and Kilyon; they were Efratim from Beit-Lechem in Y’hudah. They arrived in the plain of Mo’av and settled there.  Elimelekh, Na‘omi’s husband, died; and she was left, she and her two sons.”-Ruth 1:2-3   Today I’m going to peel […]

 “The man’s name was Elimelekh, his wife’s name was Na‘omi, and his two sons were named Machlon and Kilyon; they were Efratim from Beit-Lechem in Y’hudah. They arrived in the plain of Mo’av and settled there.”-Ruth 1:2 We come across a confusing point in verse 2 of Ruth Chapter 1. We’re told that Elimelech’s family […]

“Back in the days when the judges were judging, at a time when there was a famine in the land, a certain man from Beit-Lechem went to live in the territory of Mo’av — he, his wife and his two sons. The man’s name was Elimelekh, his wife’s name was Na‘omi, and his two sons […]

“Back in the days when the judges were judging, at a time when there was a famine in the land, a certain man from Beit-Lechem went to live in the territory of Mo’av — he, his wife and his two sons.”-Ruth 1:1 The first verse of Ruth is not only fuzzy about WHEN the famine […]