"Shabbat Shalom" – Bamidbar 5776
Parshat Bamidbar (Numbers 1:1 – 4:20)/ Shavuot Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – The Scroll of Ruth contains one of the most idyllic stories in the Bible, a tale of “autumnal love” between a widow (Ruth) and a widower (Boaz), within the backdrop of diaspora intermarriage, conversion to Judaism, and the agricultural life in ancient Israel. The …