The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot (Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost), commemorating a lone woman who accepted upon herself to join the Jewish people and to follow God's words to them. She did so with her famous saying to Naomi: "thy people--my people"
The young Ruth then joined her mother in law, going from her native land of Moab to Judea, "and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest". In Bethlehem--"House of Bread"--the entire story is told midst the setting of this barley harvest.
This setting is telling. For the harvest is an act of reaping individual ears of grain from their autonomous beds, and collecting them into sheaves. The act symbolizes, therefore, Ruth's own transformation: As she "reaped" herself from her individual growing ground of Moab, to join the collective of the People of Israel.
And indeed, the Hebrew word for "people", or עם ('am), is not only related to the preposition "with" (or the adjective "together"), it is directly associated with the Hebrew for "sheaf - עמר (`omer), teaching us that in Ancient Israelite thought the concept of a "people" equals the notion of a collective entity. Indeed, Naomi's name too (נ-עמ-י) plays on the collective 'am theme.
Happy holiday, and sorry for the long absence
Ethan
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