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The Return of Ruth

JL;DR SUMMARY Stuart Halpern explores the complex concept of 'return' in the Book of Ruth, focusing on the word "shuv," which typically implies a return to a previous place or state. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"The Jerusalem Talmud, in Tractate Yevamot, understood Ruths return as spiritual rather than geographical."
Istanbul, Turkey
"The Iggeret Shmuel, a sixteenth-century commentary on Ruth composed in Constantinople by Samuel de Ueda, takes a different tack."
Lublin, Poland
"For the late nineteenth century mystic Rabbi Zadok ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Lublin, Ruth was returning not by means of conversion nor through proto-Zionism, but by reconnecting with her inherently Jewish soul."
Israel
"she was returning from Moabite paganism to belief in the God of Israel."
Bethlehem, Central District, Israel
"Naomi returned, she and Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, who returned from Moab; and they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest."
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