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A helping hand, not the spelling Nazis.
It’s Always Something, innit.
Succos : Sukkot :: Shabbos : Shabbat :: Rus : Ruth
(Wherever you find the TRUTH, you find RUTH.)
Unless it’s Ruthless.............
Shalom Shabat!
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FOOD?
IF it’s Free
It’s Me .
A paradox, because everyone could use two opinions.
A Jewish paradox?
Dr. Goldstein and Dr. Rosen?............
If you ask Google's AI, it thinks it knows better, perhaps because it's three sheets to the wind:
AI Overview
The Book of Ruth is traditionally read during Shavuot, not Sukkot.
Shavuot Connection: The story of Ruth takes place during the barley and wheat harvests, matching the agricultural and seasonal timing of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). It also highlights themes of loving-kindness (hesed) and embracing the covenant, paralleling the Israelites receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai.
Sukkot Connection: Instead of Ruth, the biblical scroll (Megillah) read during Sukkot is Ecclesiastes (Kohelet). Kohelet offers a reflective, existential perspective on life's fleeting nature during the joyous harvest festival.
Yet famously, of the 85 verses in the Book of Ruth, all but 8 begin with the letter vav, aka the letter of connection.
The acronym of these 8 pesukim spells the words “Yish’ee b’ohel” (ישעי באהל) — “My salvation is in the tent,” i.e., from Avraham’s saying that Jewish woman should be b’ohel — within the confines of the tent — proof was derived that Moabite women who convert are not forbidden to enter into marriage with Jewish men. Consequently, David says, “Yish’ee — my salvation — comes from Avraham’s saying that Sarah is b’ohel — in the tent. Thanks to his words, Boaz was permitted to marry Ruth, and I am thus halachically qualified to be the head of the Davidic dynasty and the ancestor of Mashiach.”
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2837253/jewish/Megillat-Ruth-Chapter-Four.htm
Y MOAB for a hometown? It has a real surprise element to it. More fun and festive that way!
Moabites were descendants of Lot so intermarriage was okay.......
No, but thanks for the attempted help. Succos, since it is an approximation of the Hebrew pronunciation, can also be spelled Sukkos. סֻכּוֹת in Hebrew.
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