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Project Likkutei Sichos — volume 27 behar sichah 2 — Behar-Bechukosai 5786

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — volume 27 behar sichah 2 — Behar-Bechukosai 5786. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. (And in those instances where Rashi cannot find an answer according to the 1 straightforward meaning, he explicitly states, “I do not know,” or uses similar expressions.) Accordingly, we must understand {the following anomaly}: At the beginning of our parshah, the Torah sets forth the laws of the Sabbatical year (Shemitah) for the land. {To clarify:} had the Torah not presented this matter in a question-and-answer format (“ If you should ask , ‘What will we eat...?’” followed by the response, “I will command My blessing...”), {its placement might have been understood.} We could have explained that “I will command My blessing” is simply a continuation of the {general} blessings Hashem promises the Jewish people for observing the mitzvos of Shemitah and Yovel 7 (“You shall perform My decrees”): “You will dwell securely in the land, and the land will yield its fruit... 27 | Behar | Sichah 2 | 2 However, since the Torah specifically intends here topreempt the question, “What will we eat?”, it should have addressed this concern at the very moment the question first arises — immediately upon presenting the laws ofShemitah.8 There are commentators9 who explain that the verses, “If you should ask... Had the verse meant merely, “Perhaps you will say,” the termv’im (“and if” {meaning, in the event that}) would have been more appropriate, as in the verse, “Butif (v’im) the servant shall say....”12 8) We cannot ask why this assurance was not given 10) On Vayikra 25:22. This is consistent with Rashi’s interpretation of a similar verse13 (regarding a false prophet),14 “Vechi (and if) you will say in your heart, ‘How will we know...?’” {There,Rashi explicitly explains:} “You are destined to say15 this when Chananiah comes....” This requires explanation: why does the Torah use an expression meaning “you are 16 destined to say this,” as if this is how one is expected to behave? This echoes what we have already learned regarding Avraham: the defining sign that “he believed in G -d” was that “he did not ask Him for a sign.”18 Furthermore, immediately before the question, “If you should ask,” the verse states (as mentioned above): “The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and you will

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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8 мая 2026 г.

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12

Темы: parsha_commentary