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(7) Alternatively: “The Lord afflicted [ana] me” – all of His concern [inyan] was with me, as in this world, the Lord afflicted [ana] me. But regarding the future, what is written? “I will rejoice over them to do them good” (Jeremiah 32:41).

(15) “The women said to Naomi: Blessed is the Lord, who has not left you without a redeemer today, and may his name be proclaimed in Israel” (Ruth 4:14). “The women said to Naomi: Blessed is the Lord, who has not left you without a redeemer today.” Just as the day rules over the heavens, so, it will be with your descendants; they will dominate and rule over Israel forever. Rabbi Ḥunya said: It was due to the women’s blessing that the line of David was not cut off...

(6) “He handed her roasted grain,” a light, small amount, with his two fingers. ... Rabbi Yitzḥak bar Maryon said: The verse comes to teach you that if a person performs a mitzva he should perform it wholeheartedly...Had Boaz known that the Holy One blessed be He was dictating in his regard: “He handed her roasted grain, and she ate, was sated, and there was some left over,” he would have fed her fattened calves. Rabbi Kohen and Rabbi Yehoshua of Sikhnin in the name of Rabbi Levi: In the past, a person would perform a mitzva and the prophet would write it. Now, when a person performs a mitzva, who writes it? Elijah writes it, and the messianic king, and the Holy One blessed be He affixes a seal for them.

(61) And may you be wholehearted with the LORD our God, to walk in His ways and keep His commandments, even as now.”