[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Simi Peters via Avodah]

Nope.  Rut 1:22:  They come into Bet Lehem at the beginning of the barley
harvest (mid-Nisan, let's say) and has to start gleaning right away or they
won't have anything to eat.  Rut 2:23:  Rut is in Boaz's field until the end
of the wheat harvest (say mid-Sivan.  Remember, Shavuot is the beginning of
the wheat harvest.)  So a conservative estimate is that they know each other
at least a month, if not 6-8 weeks by the time she goes to the goren (which
has to be at the end of the wheat harvest.)

Kol tuv,
Simi Peters

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From: Micha Berger [mailto:micha at aishdas.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 5:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

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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