[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Ben Waxman <ben1456 at zahav.net.il> wrote:

> Maybe you're projecting 2016 sexual mores on a Middle Eastern society from
> 2500 years ago? Ruth was super modest. Doing something so unmodest (again,
> in that society (and in contemporary Torah society) could simply be taken
> as a sign that she wanted to sleep with him.
>
> Ben
>
> And therefore what? According to Chazal Boaz was the Gadol Hador and he
was also an old man. Why would a strange woman giving him a sign that she
wanted to sleep with him tempt him? Why would that be called a bigger
nisayon then Yosef faced?
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