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Era of Judges
2787AM

Year 2787 of the Jewish calendar.

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Ivtzan - this is Bo'az, Judge 11, who judged for 7 years [(Shoftim 12)] from year 2787 until 2793 because the year 2787 goes up to Yiftach and to Ivtzan [(according to Seder Olam)], receiving from 10 according to Abarbanel [(thus). And according to Yuchsin, Ivtzan began in year 2785.] Rashi wrote in Bava Batra 2:2: According to what is seen, Bo'az was...

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Ruth and Orpah were the daughters of Eglon king of Moav, the son of the son of Balak, and Orpah was the mother of Goliath. [In Nazir (22b) the Arizal 28 wrote: Ruth was the daughter of the son of Eglon king of Moav, and the Tosafot wrote 'if specifically the daughter of his son,' and so in Chelek (105a) it says the daughter of Eglon, not specifically but...]

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Na'ami [is from the secret of Leah, and Ruth is from the secret of Rachel, and Ruth wept in her as Rachel gave over the signs to Leah, and this is what is meant by 'Ruth, and her name I will bury' - meaning, not like the first one, that Leah was buried in the Cave of Machpelah and Rachel on the way to Ephrat, and the child that Ruth bore was from Leah, therefore 'born to her' is 'the son of Na'ami, the son of Mama' (year...]

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Ruth [was the reincarnation of Hevel (Sefer Minchat Yitzchak, Da'at Alef), Sefer Shemen HaTov, Parshat VaYera wrote: A certain Ashkenazi sage told me that his teacher said that he found it written in Sefer HaKadosh Kana, that the daughter of Lot was reincarnated in Ruth, and what Bo'az said to her 'your latter kindness is greater than the first' means that her name was not, because...]

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Machlon and Chilion [In Megillah: Er and Onan were reincarnated in Peretz and Zerach, and afterwards in Machlon and Chilion, and afterwards they were reincarnated in Achiyah the child (see Y.R. VaYeshev 59:2). Goliath was a reincarnation of Chilion from the spirit that rustled in the belly of Orpah when she left Chilion - through her belly, and this is the secret of 'bar me'ah papi vachad'...]

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Oved [was reincarnated in Asa'el (see year 2920) and in Chetzron and Chamul (see year 2228)]:

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