[Avodah] 15 Av

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Sun Sep 22 13:01:17 PDT 2019


On 22/9/19 2:09 am, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
>
> Hmmm... Actually, if Rus converted at the end of the story, that is 
> pretty problematic too, because even if there isn't any "conversion 
> for the sake of marriage" to worry about, the Beis Din is even more 
> surprising. (Someone *might* make a case that two brothers could be a 
> Beis Din for gerus, but when Naami and Rus were alone they didn't have 
> any Jewish men around at all.)

I don't understand the problem. They arrived in Beis Lechem, where there 
was surely no shortage of botei din.

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Zev Sero            A prosperous and healthy 5780 to all
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