Naomi, a bitter widow, urges her daughters-in-law to go back to Moab. Orpah leaves. Ruth clings to her.

Logically, Ruth should have gone home to find a husband. She chose YHWH and Naomi instead. Torah connection: Leviticus 19:34 (Loving the stranger). The Pharisaic distortion: Loving those who love you (even tax collectors do that).

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Ruth 1:16-17

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour