[Avodah] Elimelech's land
Zev Sero via Avodah
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Thu Jun 1 21:17:52 PDT 2017
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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