Reply To: Who wants to be a Tzadaikes like Rus?

binahyeseira- “my point was that in this way i don’t think people in those days were much different than we are (except that a woman wouldn’t divorce so easily, even if she was miserable)- that’s the gadlus of boaz and rus; they did the right thing even though people would talk.”

Yes, I understand your point, but this is our fundamental disagreement: There are two types of talking. One someone doing an Aveira and one someone doing something not PC. The community in that time never heard of the Din -Moavi V’lo Moaviah. So if Ploni Almoni would be Mechadesh it, noone would accept it and say he is being Oiver an Aveirah, as opposed to Boaz (the Godol).

In our generation, if you do something not PC, like marry a girl 20 years younger, the world will talk. They didn’t have these kind of hang ups in that generation!