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face=Arial>From: Akiva Miller via Avodah
<A>avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>It doesn't matter whether you call it "yibum," or you call
it<BR>something else. My point is that there is no connection between Rus<BR>and
Boaz unless Rus was indeed married, and if there was no geirus<BR>then she was
*not* married and not connected to Boaz.<BR><BR><BR>Akiva
Miller<BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>There was a difference of opinion about this even at the time the events in
Megillas Rus were taking place. Ploni Almoni held that there was no mitzva
of yibum in this case while Boaz held that there was.</DIV>
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<DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</FONT><FONT lang=0
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