[Avodah] Boaz's nisayon with Ruth

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:47:45PM +0300, Simi Peters via Avodah wrote:
: 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.) ...

I thought "ad kelos se'ir hase'orim uqetzir hachitim" referred to the
end of the overlap time. Which is how I got such a tight estimate. You
appear to be reading it "until the end of the barley harvest, [and then
beyond, until] the end of the wheat harvest." Which, despite needing
the bracketed insertion, is quite plausible. But not the assumption I
had been working with.

In any case, even in a matter of months, we would still be talking about
romantic love. To my mind, any couple in love before the love that that
grows out of building a life together are experiencing romantic love.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:27:47AM -0400, RnTK <T613K at aol.com> wrote:
: In one of my books it says that from the time Rus came to Boaz's field  
: until the night in the goren it was three months.  It had to be three  months 
: because that's the minimum time from the time a woman is megayer until  she 
: can get married.  (Sorry I don't remember source.)

The harvest season isn't three months, even according to RnSP's
understanding of the pasuq.

And that taqanah derabbanan almost certainly didn't exist yet.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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