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Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab, 1795. Credit: Drawing/painting by William Blake. United Kingdom, via Wikimedia Commons (scanned by H. Churchyard).

Central Shavuot text ‘all about kindness,’ says rabbi who published Arabic book of Ruth

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This Shavuot, those interested can follow along during the reading of the book of Ruth and take in quotes like “Your people are my people, and your God is my God” in Arabic. That’s...
The biblical Ruth in Boaz's Field by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Your people will be my people’: A Shavuot shout-out to Ruth’s ‘daughters’

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“You shall love the convert for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” — Deuteronomy 10:19 There was a moment some 2,500 years ago when a recently widowed Moabite princess refused to abandon her aging mother-in-law...