collage, 22”w, 15”h
The Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot (a late spring harvest festival).
When Ruth’s husband, a Moabite dies, Ruth chooses to stay with her mother-in-law, Naomi (a Judean) and declares: “Where you go, I will go, your people will be my people and your G-d will be my G-d. Classical Greek sculptures are destroyed, as in smashing idols while the Canaanite idols are upright and intact.