Tough Love - Amazingly, there is a hidden group who maintain the presence of Yithro and lead Yisrael to the ability to deal with עמלק and thus to a קיימו וקיבלו of תורה שבעל פה! These are the בני רכב סוכותיים תרעתיים who maintain סנהדרין ורוח הקודש and who become the dream of the גר who was גייריני על מנת לעשותני כהן גדול and who come from the גר who was the essence of רעך ורע אביך who needed to learn כל התורה כולה על רגל אחת and did as רעוא"ל! They were always able to deal with עמלק and the אומות העולם even to the games of יעל which is pure Esther and קיימו וקיבלו! This becomes a greater ברית than that with בית דוד and they become the מה נאוו על ההרים in the Midrash!
רו"ת – ית"רו represent the two poles of גירות (both also relate תור and קין and ודרור קן לה), one critical where the parent-in-law wants to join the child-in-law; one completely accepting where daughter-in-law searches for mother-in-law. Both are stories of love, but at קבלת התורה the essence is the critical search for תורה שבעל פה which is the sense that in order to experience the meaning of love, the pursuit of identity through critical work is essential; this is the antithesis of postmodernism, where Ruth is totally open to the redefinitions but because of her entire עבודה has no concern for particular identity! She identifies entirely in the mutuality not through her personal selfhood! Both reflect on the אני יודע ואיני כדאי in a different way, and this is why יתרו brings up the names of the sons—for those are experiences that he could not share, and now realizes that he shared none of it! This is why the elements of דוד and יונדב are always juxtaposed in the midrash, and גדול הברית שנאמר ביונדב בן רכב מאשר הברית עם דוד! The only one who can deal with the קיימו וקיבלו in full awareness of the pain and confusion of תורה שבעל פה is one who can deal with the same Amalek of Purim, and that is the קיני which is what amazes בלעם!
The relationship of יונדב to the יהוא who offers his entire heart, אליו היש את לבבך ישר כאשר לבבי עם לבבך ויאמר יהונדב יש ויש and he falls for it while the man does not truly possess a full heart, ויהוא לא שמר ללכת בתורת ידוד אלהי ישראל בכל לבבו, is out of character for the critical Yithro, and therefore costs him his ה' and from יהונדב he becomes יונדב! Ultimately, true Torah is served only by a קבלה that includes both the רות and the יתור, as the ultimate דע מה שתשיב.

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