Мидраш к Рут 3:1

“Ruth the Moavite said: He even said to me: Cleave to my young men until all my harvest is finished” (Ruth 2:21).
“Ruth the Moavite said: He even said to me: Cleave to my young men…” Rabbi Ḥanin bar Levi said: Clearly she is a Moavite, as he said: “But cleave to my young women” (Ruth 2:8), and she said: “Cleave to my young men.”
“She cleaved to Boaz’s young women.” Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman said: From the beginning of the barley harvest until the end of the wheat harvest is three months. “She lived with her mother-in-law” – Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her: My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you…. Now isn’t there Boaz, our acquaintance?” (Ruth 3:1–2).²⁰²The rest that Naomi sought for Ruth was through marriage, and she therefore mentioned Boaz, as she intended to bring about the marriage of Boaz and Ruth.

(Exod. 12:29:) AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT THAT THE LORD SMOTE ALL THE FIRST-BORN…. This text is related (to Ps. 119:62): AT MIDNIGHT I WILL ARISE TO THANK YOU.⁶¹See PRK 7:4; PR 17:3. David said: I am obliged to stand and thank you for what you did with my great grandfather and my great grandmother at midnight. When? When Naomi and Ruth, her Moabite daughter-in-law, returned. What is written (in Ruth 1:19): <AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, WHEN THEY CAME TO BETHLEHEM,> THE WHOLE CITY WAS EXCITED [OVER THEM, AND THE WOMEN SAID: IS THIS NAOMI?]⁶²Cf. Ruth R. 3:6. This is the woman who went away in a covered wagon!⁶³Gk.: skepaste. The word can also denote a sedan chair. This Naomi is the one who went away and dressed in fine wool!⁶⁴Gk.: melote (“sheepskin”). (Lam. 4:5:) THOSE WHO WERE REARED IN PURPLE <HAVE EMBRACED REFUSE HEAPS >…. Both of them dwelt in a single house. (Ruth 3:1:) THEN [HER MOTHER-IN-LAW NAOMI SAID TO HER:] {NAOMI SAID UNTO HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RUTH:} SHALL I NOT SEEK A RESTING PLACE [FOR YOU]…? Hence they said that a woman has a resting place, not in her father's house, but in her husband's house. (Ruth 3:2:) AND NOW, IS THERE NOT OUR ACQUAINTANCE BOAZ? What is <meant that he is> OUR ACQUAINTANCE (moda'tanu)? He is one of our relatives (qarov). {Is not (according to Ruth 2:21) THE MAN RELATED (qarov) TO US…?} [Thus it is stated (in Ruth 2:21): THE MAN IS RELATED (qarov) TO US…. ] But as a prince of <his> generation, why did he go out and sleep on the threshing floor?⁶⁵Below, Lev. 9:8. Simply because the generation was extremely lawless. So he went out and slept on the threshing floor. <He did so> in order to ward off the lawless. However (according to Ruth 3:3), YOU (Ruth) ARE TO WASH AND ANOINT YOURSELF. She did not do so. Rather Ruth was extremely pure. She said: Whatever woman saw me thus would say: This is a whore. What did she do (according to vs. 6)? SHE WENT DOWN TO THE THRESHING FLOOR AND DID JUST AS HER MOTHER-IN-LAW HAD COMMANDED HER. <It was only> after she went down, <that> she did everything that her mother-in-law had commanded her.