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[ES1]<FROM T1, P17:
The Zidichover had a commentary:
Yakov said to Esau, "l'regel haMlava v'l'regel haYeladim"  ("By the
pace of the cattle and the pace of the children." )  'Regel haMlaba'can mean "the holidays when you are not permitted to work", which are
Pesach, Shavuos, and Succos.  'Regel haYiladim' can mean "the holidays
of the children", which are Channukah and Purim.


[ES2]<From Holy Beggars' Gazette, Vol 1. #3, Sivan 5732 (Editted fromtapes)

	Shavuos, the revelation on Mt. Sinai, is also the day of thepassing away of King David.  On that day we read the story of Ruth, hisgrandmother.  Elimelech, a descendent of our father Judah, and a veryrich Jew, was the high judge during a famine in Israel.  He took hiswife Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, and went to Moab. There Mahlon and Chilion married the two daughters of the king of Moab,Ruth and Orpah.  Then Elimelech, Mahlon, and Chilion all died and thefmaily lost all their money, so Naomi decided to go back to Israel,where the famine had already ended.  Her two daughers-in-law walkedwith her, and both of them said, 'I want to go with you', but Ruthmeant it, and Orpah just said it.  So Orpah stayed behind, and Ruthwent with Namoi.

	In Israel, in former good days, the four corners of the fieldbelonged to the poor.  The law is very strong; it's not that you cutoff the corners of the field and give it to the poor, because then itis yours, and you are giving it away.  You can't cut the four corners;they don't belong to you.  It is the poor man's field.  Another law iswhen you gather from the field, if you forget something you are notallowed to go back.  If something falls it also doesn't belong to you. 	So, when Ruth and Naomi came back to Israel, Ruth went to gatherfood and by divine providence she went to the field of Boaz, who wasactually a cousin to her husband.  Boaz came to look at his field, andhe saw a very, very beautiful woman; not just beautiful, in every wayshining.  He asked who she was, and his workers told him she was aprincess of Moab who come to Israel, poor now.  He said to the workers,"Please make sure that a lot is forgotten, and a lot falls down, andduring lunchtime when you eat, give her some olives, some bread."
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	The Torah says that the Moabite is not to be accepted into thecongregation of Israel.  Only if a Moabite converts, then after threegenerations he can become part of Israel.  Why?  It says, 'because hedid not bring you bread and water when you went into the desert.' 
	Who was the tribe of Moab?  Moab was the daugher of Lot.  Lot wasthe nephew of Abraham.  Abraham rescued Lot from Sodom by his prayers. That means Moab owed its whole existence to Abraham.  Moab had a chanceto pay back to the Jews what they owed them, what they owed FatherAbraham, by bringing them bread and water in the desert. 
    
	In those days who was supposed to bring bread and water?  Only theman.  In those days women wouldn't go out of the house to bring breadand water to the desert.  Suddenly on the very day, the very instantthat Ruth and Naomi crossed the border, the high court in Jerusalemstarted discussing the law which says a Moabite cannot come into thecongregation of Israel.  They said this means only the male Moabite,not the female, because she cannot be accused of not bringing bread andwater.  This became the new law.

	In former good days the law was that if someone died, leaving awife without chidren, someone in the family had to marry her.  The dayafter the court decision Boaz said, "Someone has do do something forthis girl.  Someone has to marry her."  
	There was one man who was a closer relative than Boaz, but thatman was super-holy, and he said, "No, I couldn't marry a girl who wasconverted.  I know the holy court decided the woman Moabite is O.K. butI am not so sure about the holy court."  Boaz said, "O.K., then, I amnext." 
	Boaz married her, but the very sad thing is that Boaz died thenext morning.  That means he was only married to Ruth for one night. The Zohar says the reason Boaz came into the world was for just thatone night.  Ruth had a son, Obed; Obed had a son Yeshai, and Yeshai hada son David, the ing of Israel, the ancester of Messiach.

	Ok now, who was this woman, Ruth?  Our father Abraham had two starpupils.  One was Lot, his nephew, and the other was Cherdorlaomer. Abraham was really giving; that was his message to the world.  Suddenlyhis star pupil, Cherdorlomer, turns around and becomes the king ofSodom, where the law was that if you were cuaght giving something tothe poor you were killed.  If you killed someone, you were rewarded. If you hit somone you got paid.  [[Genesis Rabah 523, cited in Graves &Patai, Hebrew Myths (=`G&P')]] Everything completely perverted...{eo}and Cherdorlomer became the king!  
	A few months later the second star pupil of Abraham, Lot, took offalso and became the high judge of Sodom.  This was the end for Abraham. The Zohar says that after Lot left, was the first time Abraham reallyprayed for a son, because all the time he had thought, 'I have twosons, maybe not physically my sons, but they are spiritually my sons.'. After they left he realized he had to have a son who would reallycontinue.  
	Listen to this.  Who was the real star pupil of Abraham?  The realstar pupil of Abraham was a little girl, the daugher of Lot.  Shereally absorbed all of Abraham's teachings.  When her father went toSodom she didn't want to go along, but what could she do?  After shecame to Sodom the most horrible thing happened.   The poor [didn't] diein the streets anymore.  The Sodomites couldn't find who was feedingthem.  This went on for a long time.  
    	If you remember the story, two angels came to Abraham and one ofthem said, 'God sends word to you:  Her crying reches me, and I amgoing to destroy Sodom.'  The other angel told Abraham he would have ason, Issac.  The Zohar asks what 'her crying' [[Genesis 18:21] ]is; whois this 'her'?  
	The answer is that a day in Sodom the little girl was caughtgiving a piece of bread to a poor man.  The Sodomites poured honey overher and the put her on the roof and ahe was eaten by the bees. [[Prique Rabbi Eliezar Ch. 25, & Sepher Hayashar, 64-65, both cited inG&P]].  This is the most painful death anyone can be subjected to.
    
	When the time is right, G-d works fast.  The next day Sodom wasdestroyed, and Abraham needed another star pupil, Issac.  AlthoughIssac was very holy, he was rady to die for G-d, he doesn't compare tothat girl.  That girl died for giving a poor man a piece of bread.  TheZohar Kodesh says that the soul of that girl came back to the world,and she was Ruth.  So Messiach is the descendent of those two starpupils, Issac, who was ready to die for G-d, and Ruth, the soul thatreally died for people.  That's the story.
