פּירוש אויף רות 2:22

“And Naomi answered her” [2:22]. Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her. My daughter, I desire for you a rest that will make you happy. Now, our friend Boaz, whose maidservants you were with, is going to thresh the grain in his barn this evening. We learn many customs about how a person should behave from the Scroll of Ruth. He should always personally supervise workers that he hires to be sure that the workers do their work properly and do not slack off. We see, as is written concerning Boaz, he put a servant over the reapers and also came himself to see that the reapers did not flatter the servant, even though he was a very rich man and was a Judge over Israel, and the righteous should also behave this way. They should be careful not to spend money improperly. We find concerning the Patriarch Jacob, of blessed memory, that he forgot a small jug across the river and he returned, no matter how little it was worth.⁵⁷B. Hullin, 91a. The same is written concerning Boaz, who slept in the barn himself, to guard the grain. Similarly, Ruth who collected during the day and immediately threshed it the same evening and brought it home.

We also learn from the Scroll of Ruth that when a person does something good, one should repay him with good. However, if he cannot repay it himself, then his relatives should repay it. Boaz did good because Ruth did an act of lovingkindness with Naomi. She was the wife of Elimelech and this same Elimelech was a relative of Boaz. Thus, Boaz did an act of lovingkindness for Ruth and told the reapers to forget stalks for Ruth, expecting that Ruth would notice them. Boaz did all this because Ruth had done an act of lovingkindness for Naomi, his relative’s wife, and also because she converted. In the meantime, Naomi saw that she had much good through Ruth. Naomi wanted to find her security, and that Boaz should marry her and she should be able to repay her acts of lovingkindness.

That you go out to glean with his maidens. And not with the young men, as he is in charge of both the male and female reapers.