Shavuos - Rus "אין אומתנו אומה, אלא בתורותיה"

Rus

1. And it happened in the days when the Judges judged, that there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab; he with his wife and two sons.
2. The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, the name[s] of his two sons, were Machlon and Kilyon, Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah; they came to the Moabite country and remained there.
3. Elimelech, Naomi’s husband died, and she was left with her two sons.
4. They married Maobite women, one of whom was named Orpah, and the name of the second Rus, and they lived there about ten years.
5. They both died; Machlon and Kilyon, the woman was bereft of her two sons and of her husband.
6. She then arose with her daughters-in-law, in order to return from the fields of Moab for she had heard in the fields of Moab that Hashem had cared for His people to give them food.
7. She left the place where she had been, accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, and they took the road to return to the land of Judah.
8. Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return, each of you to her mother’s home; may Hashem deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.
9. May Hashem grant you that you may find [security] rest each in the home of her [new] husband”; she kissed them and they wept aloud.
10. And they said to her, “We will return with you to your people.”
11. And Naomi said, “Turn back my daughters, why should you come with me? Am I likely to have more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
12. “Turn back, my daughters, go [your way], for I am too old to have a husband. Even if I could say: ‘I have yet hope,’ even if I were to have a husband tonight—and even if I were to bear sons—
13. Would you wait for them until they were grown to manhood? Would you shut yourselves in for them, denying yourselves to marry another?—No, my daughters, my distress is great on your account, for against me is directed the hand of Hashem.”
14. They wept loudly again, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Rus did cling to her.
15. And she [Naomi] said to her, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god; return along with your sister-in-law.”
16. But Rus said, “Do not urge me to desert you, to turn away from you. For wherever you go, I shall go, where you lodge, I will lodge, your people are my people, and your God, is my God.
17. Where you die, I will die and there I shall be buried; so may Hashem do to me—and even more—if anything but death separate me from you.”
18. [And when] she saw that she was determined to go with her, she refrained from further discussion with her.