[Avodah] Would Ruth's conversion be rejected today?

[Elazar M. Teitz]

>> I'd think that a tzadik like Boaz would much sooner have sat shiva over
 Machlon's intermarriage<<


>He may well have done so at the time, and if Machlon were alive he might
have treated him as a rasha; but Machlon wasn't alive, and someone had to
wind up his affairs.  One of his debts was to Ruth.  Suppose someone
marries out and then does teshuvah; he must leave his wife, but does he
not have an ethical obligation to look after her?  And suppose she
converts and demands that he make an honest woman of her, does he not
have an ethical obligation to do so?<


 .  The Mishna in Yevamos 24b states that "Hanitan . . . al hanochris v'nisgaira, harei zeh lo yichnos."

EMT