Mashiach can only come from a seed other than the one that gave birth to Kayin
Rav Aaron Lopiansky, rosh yeshivah of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, recently published Seed of Redemption, his English adaptation of Rav Yosef Lipovitz’s Nachalas Yosef on Megillas Rus. Just in time for Shavuos.
When Nachalas Yosef was presented to Rav Gedaliah Nadel, one of those closest to the Chazon Ish, “he read it breathlessly from beginning to end, sobbing uncontrollably. [When he finished], he said, ‘it is 500 years since a sefer of this kind was written; undoubtedly, it was written with ruach hakodesh,” according to an eye-witness account.
Nachalas Yosef weaves the words of Chazal together in a seamless tapestry, not as isolated comments. The commentary demonstrates that Chazal’s words are not fanciful extrapolations from the text, but careful explications of the verses, which peel back layers of meaning..
Rav Lipovitz, a close talmid of the Alter of Slabodka, introduces his commentary with two essays on recurrent themes throughout the megillah. The first focuses on chesed. “Rav Zeira said, ‘[The megillah was written] to teach me how much reward lies in store for people who perform deeds of kindness’ ” (Rus Rabbah 2:14).
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