[Avodah] Elimelech's land

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 01/06/17 23:01, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:

> Why was is so important for Naomi to find a goel/redeemer for
> Elimelech's land? Why didn't she just move back there and start
> farming?
It seems to me that finding a buyer for the property was not at all 
important to her, and in fact she had shown no interest in doing so 
until she saw how she could use it to get Boaz to marry Ruth.   It was 
Boaz who spun the story out for Tov in order to scare him off; first he 
drew him in with the prospect of an easy transaction for Naomi's portion 
of the field, but then he threw in the Ruth monkey wrench.


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