Judges

In the first verse of Megillas Rus the word ויהי (indicating a calamity) is repeated. Why? The Midrash says that it is to tell us that there were two famines. One a famine of food and one a famine of Torah. In a generation of no Torah, there is a famine. "In the days of the judging of the judges," is a generation in which the judges need to be judged. There is no greater denigration of Torah than that.