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1. The Days of the Judging of the Judges

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   The Book of Ruth references the era of the Judges – but to which judge, specifically, is the book referring? Midrashic text make various suggestions (Ehud and Shamgar; Devorah and Barak; Ivzan), which highlight the difference and similarity between Ruth and stories from the Book of Judges. Comparing and contrasting these stories creates important insights about the characters, values, and objectives of the Book of Ruth.

2. Ruth and Chana: Mothers in Israel

   Dr. Yael Ziegler

   This lesson compares Ruth and Hannah, the two perfect mothers, and Yael, Deborah and Sisra's mother, who represent a distortion of motherhood. Ruth and Hannah introduce motherly compassion as a model, and the results are Shmuel, who anoints kings, and David, who creates the dynasty of monarchy in Israel.

3. Devorah and Yael

   Rabbi Michael Hattin

   This episode furnishes us with a mother - Devorah - and a wife - Yael - securing victory for a rag-tag army of irregulars over an army with nine hundred iron chariots in order to indicate that war is ignoble, killing is tragic, but freedom from enemy domination must be nevertheless be achieved. While the women of Israel proclaim life's inherent sanctity and celebrate its inviolate worth, leaving their proverbial tents to counter the threat but never reveling in the enemies' demise, Sisera's mother dreams of more bloodshed and spoils.

4. Yitro and Amalek

   Dr. Yael Ziegler | 33 minutes

   When does Yitro arrive? When does the meeting with Moshe take place? What was it that he heard that motivated him to see Moshe? And where does this meeting fit in chronologically- before or after Ma’amad Har Sinai? Why is it recorded here? There are astoundingly strong linguistic parallels between the Yitro and the Amalek story that precedes it. We look at these mirror image parallels, as well as the story of Yael and Sisra to see that the nearby nations are not monolithic when it comes to choices about the knowledge of God and the attitude toward Bnei Yisrael.