Q. Someone mentioned on a recent speech that the Sh’lah Hakadosh was a reincarnation of Ruth Hamoavia. Can that really be true?
A. Interestingly we find in Sefer Hadoros (5389) something similar. Not a reincarnation, but rather that the Neshama of Ruth ‘joined’ the Sh’lah when he visited Eretz Yisrael. He provides a Remez of the name of the Sh’lah on the Roshei Tevos (beginning letter) of the eight words of Megilas Ruth that do not start with the letter Vav.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.