[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:00:43AM +0300, Simi Peters via Avodah wrote:
: Haven't any of you read the second perek of megillat Rut? We're not
: talking about a coup de foudre here. We're talking about the gradual
: development of warm feelings between a much older man and a mature woman
: (40 years old, according to Hazal).

How gradual? Se'orah harvest is in Nisan (thus "Aviv") and Iyyar, chitah
is in late Iyyar through early Tammuz. So the whole story has to fit
in at most a month, when the two overlap. Add that they were harvesting
long enough that Rus showing up at this point is odd. I think it's more
plausible to picture Rus 2 through 4:12 all occuring in about a week.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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