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I will do for you whatever you ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence — eshet chayil. Boaz knew exactly what Ruth was asking of him. Perhaps he had already considered proposing to Ruth. However, what Naomi and Ruth did was courageous and Boaz knew it. This is why he calls her an eshet chayil. She was not only an upright woman in the eyes of the people and YHWH, but she was willingly to battle in her own feminine way for what she desired.

He could clearly see her attentiveness in the care of her mother-in-law. He could also see her strong work ethic. She was driven and steadfast. The very next day Boaz seeks out the one person who could thwart their plans — a kinsmen that was closer to Naomi by blood than he was.

But when this other man discovers that he will not only have to redeem the land but also marry Ruth, he concedes to Boaz. I imagine that Boaz was rejoicing on the inside at this news. Take note of the process Boaz goes through to acquire Ruth. As much as he may desire her, he faithfully obeys the proper course of action. And by the looks of things, he had no problem with allowing Ruth to function in her purpose as ezer. He realized that he had found an eshet chayil!

An eshet chayil , who can find? For her worth is far above jewels. Was Ruth acting as a righteous woman or a harlot in this scene? There is a fine line to consider when it comes to discerning her role. Please ponder on the thoughts of Dr. Hollisa Alewine on this matter. To lie with a man can also be used as a euphemism for intercourse.

Lest we think Ruth was inviting something improper, be assured that sometimes a foot is just a foot! Boaz clearly vindicates her righteousness, and the people and elders at the gate affirm it. The duality that Dr. Alewine brings up is an often overlooked theme in the Scriptures. There are many cases where the actions of a righteous person appear to be portraying the contrary. Generations before Boaz, Judah is placed in a similar situation with a woman from Canaan [4].

May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel; and may you achieve wealth in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem. But Judah refused to give her what was rightfully hers. Judah promised his youngest son to Tamar when he came of age.

Tamar accomplished her kinsmen redemption by deceiving Judah. She dressed up as a prostitute and seduced him. Later, when Judah learned she was pregnant, he wanted to have her burned alive. However, when she proved that Judah was the father of her growing womb —- he declared her more righteous than himself.

As a result, Tamar secured the lineage of the Tribe of Judah. It came about at the time she was giving birth, that behold, there were twins in her womb. Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and he was named Zerah. Thus far, we have uncovered two women in the ancestry of Mashiach Messiah that have questionable identities.

And the book of Ruth points to both. This dichotomy between a harlot and a righteous woman runs deeper still. Rahab was an Amorite of the city of Jericho.

She was an innkeeper and a supposed prostitute that had heard great stories about the God of Israel. When the Israeli spies came to her city, she placed her allegiance with them and YHWH by helping the spies escape safely. When the Israelites came back to take Jericho, she let down a scarlet cord from her window. The men of Israel recognized this sign and she and her family were spared.

They joined Israel as sojourners. Later, Rahab marries an Israelite named Salmon, who became the father of Boaz [5]. Now we have found three women connected to the Book of Ruth and the Messiah that appeared to be doing the actions of a harlot.

Yet, we know that in the end they are each really righteous. Since we have already explored this same dichotomy of a harlot and a righteous woman wisdom in the Book of Proverbs, a question arises. Sometimes a troublesome woman who appears to be a harlot is a virtuous woman [ eshet chayil ] led by the Holy Spirit, she guides [ ezer ] men who stray back into the straight path. Stay tuned. In Part VII , I hope that we can bring all these revelations together and make them applicable to our lives today.

Judah himself married a Canaanite woman and had a Canaanite friend. At first glance this may seem odd, but we must remember that most Jewish rabbis, teachers, and sages can read, write, and speak Hebrew fluently. We will focus on two of these allegories in particular: Wisdom and the Holy Spirit. If this is a foreign concept to you, I suggest stopping right now to read through this wisdom book. It will become apparent that Proverbs often depicts two women, one righteous and one wicked, to contrast two types of people.

These are the good and evil inclinations [1] that every person possesses. King Solomon personifies good and evil in order to teach his son and us discernment. YHWH and Solomon instruct us to choose to follow our good inclination or our spirit, rather than the flesh. In Hebrew, the Spirit of God and other spirits are written in the feminine form. But your Bible does so over and over again in reference to His Spirit in the original language.

This is not goddess worship; rather, this is simply how the language works. God is neither a man nor a woman, yet He has attributes of both genders. I write to feel, to write how it was to be a Jew in the Holocaust; to give the reader my feelings about what it was to be dehumanized. A wise man wrote that not even a survivor understands the circumstances of his plight. In the dazed, confused, and exceedingly cruelly randomized world of the Holocaust this was a given.

I suppose as I look over my writings I deal with the dehumanization of the Jew. Women of Valor is saturated with that experience and so I approached the book differently. I wanted to see if I would be touched or given insight from such behaviors, which is my background as a writer and a retired psychotherapist. So here are observations I would like to share about Women of Valor. Terror immobilizes, it paralyzes, cells freeze up, the mind cannot fathom, cannot respond; first there is the horror, and then there is terror.

One indelible insight I uncovered as I read the book is how each of these women idiosyncratically experienced sheer terror, grappled with it and stood their ground. Somehow and in some fashion, they metabolized this fear, unlocked themselves, fought back at attempted rapes, learned to shoot a gun, to outwit and outsmart the Hun.

In short, to act. They would not use this word, but they acted existentially. I see this in all four testimonies. I choose to live. I choose to resist. I am Sisyphus. Arrival is not the issue. It is all in the struggle.

It is a monumentally brave thing, is it not? Each one moved from real fear and the pungency of terror so as to unlock her self and fight back, to resist, to self-actuate one self. Quite remarkable. And since women throughout the ages have suffered the collective backhand slap of men, it even takes on a larger measure of strength, character and that great word, resolve. As I say terror was a constant, and I must add that to mobilize one self to resist was a choice these women also had to make.

Psychological surrender would have been the comfortable way, paralysis and numbness the alternatives. Just examine the people about you and one can only surmise who would endure, who would resist and who would be shattered by the relentless Nazi machine of dehumanization, unprecedented in the history of man because it was systematic and organized.

Capitulation was always an available option. A constant state of anomie prevailed in this environment. And how to engage that often became a test of character. Fortitude is the word that comes to mind. All of the women in one way or another, gave up their adolescence and assumed the mantle of adult behaviors. It had its cost much later on. It is often said that young people in the camps, after two weeks, had already garnered the behavior of men.

One of the delayed savageries of the Nazi system was the indelible cost it made upon the survivor in later life. Survivors suffered twice over. Indeed, at the end, one woman of valor who became a scientist and has a brilliant mind speaks of post traumatic shock disorder. The word is not the thing itself, one philosopher has said.

And before we had the term, the disorder had been with mankind for centuries. Survivors who have had relentless dreams and flashbacks decades later can attest to this phenomenon. In my own stories I enter here with my own skills and try to grasp the psychological mayhem done to survivors. Gilbert gives the facts and her empathy; I relate feelings based on such facts as she has supplied as well as others, Primo Levi, Olga Lengyel and Wiesel.

It takes guts, if you think about, to be a living, feeling, thinking, and compassionate human being! Imagine the task for a young teenager who must psychologically defend herself and at the same time sustain her own inner-directedness as her culture collapses about her. Aug 04, Arielle Sokol rated it it was amazing. Joanne D. Gilbert's Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich, recently published by Gihon River Press, is a gripping and inspiring compilation of first-person accounts from four remarkable young women who, equipped with their intelligence and skills, as well as a significant amount of good luck, successfully defied the Nazi-Germans—and survived.

Despite the heavy subject-matter, I was mesmerized, unable to put the book down until I had finished the Epilogue. While each account is both Joanne D. While each account is both compelling and horrifying, they are not depressing, because they show that the women survived and went on to live normal lives. The honesty, candor, and voice of each woman is clear, as is her need to finally share her experiences with the world, so that what she went through will never be forgotten.

A volume such as this is particularly important in an age when many Holocaust survivors and resisters are losing their battle with time. Email Address:. All rights reserved. You may print and share my content as long as you agree to these three conditions: 1.

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