[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Ilana Elzufon via Avodah]

RnSP: Rut has lousy marriage prospects because everyone looks askance at
her as

> the weird shiksa daughter-in-law who comes back to Bet Lehem with her
> mother-in-law.  No one will consider marrying her because she is a Moabite
> and people who marry Moabite women die (witness Mahlon and Khilyon) because
> it's probably assur (except according to wild-eyed Reformim or silly
> idealists like Boaz--the man in the street always knows better).
>

Does Boaz's idealism extend to not quite grasping how different his
attitude towards Rut is from everyone else's? His response when she comes
to the goren seems to indicate that he had assumed she had many marriage
options from among the younger men.

Shabbat Shalom,
Ilana
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