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Jun 5, 2025 • 7 min read

some Ruth for the season

gleanings from the story, through women writers, classical midrash, and more

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
some Ruth for the season
Untitled (Ruth and Naomi, Gleaners), Adi Nes, 2006. Women gleaning the remainders after the harvest is a key feature of the Ruth story. (A photograph of two Brown women are bent over, picking through scattered apples and other produce on a littered, gravelly ground. The ground is littered with discarded packaging, plastic bags, and other debris. They both wear clothing for warm weather; one wears a light-colored head covering. Boxes containing apples are on the ground nearby.)
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