Shalom and Welcome. Tonight’s discussion will center around why Ruth, the daughter of Balak, King of Moab, and why she was chosen to be the great-grandmother of Mashiach. The discussion invokes the classic argument of Nature versus Nurture, and how Hashem, (master of both Nature and Nuture) has designed mankind and the Jewish people to be able to exist in a world of free choice. Is nature all free choice? Is nurture all genetic programming? How does this influence the course of history as pertains to God’s choice of Ruth as this holy inspired Grandmother of the Messiah?
We will engage these questions and others, and hopefully meditate upon them together, tonight, 8pm Israel, at Webyeshiva.org.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Avraham Shira