[Avodah] Moav/Midyan

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:29:18PM +0000, Gershon Dubin wrote:
: End of this week's parasha:  vayachel ha'am liznos el benos Moav.
...
: Finally (this is not my question), Balak ben Tzipor melech leMoav ba'es
: hahi, meaning (per Rashi) that he was not a native Moavi.  If so, why
: could not Rus, his descendant, marry into Kelal Yisrael without the
: derasha of Moavi velo Moavis?

Balaq had already joined Moav by the time they earned "lo yavo ... Moavi
biqehal Hashem".

Tir'u baTov!
-mi