Tafsiran Imamat 26:9: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Kli Yakar & Ramban

“I will look with favor upon you” [26:9]. The Holy One promises that He will cleave to Israel. He means with this, the world to come. Therefore, He also says, “I will be ever present in your midst” [26:12]. That is to say, in the world to come the Holy One will visit and stroll with the righteous in the Garden of Eden. The portion showed that first He will give us food in this world so that we will be able to study in order to be able to come through that to the world to come. The whole portion shows that the Holy One will cleave to us in the day of the Messiah.⁴Bahya, Leviticus, 26:9.

ופניתי אליכם AND I WILL TURN UNTO YOU — This means, I will turn away from all My business in order to pay you your reward. A parable! To what may this be compared? To a king who hired labourers etc., just as is explained in Torath Cohanim (Sifra, Bechukotai, Chapter 2 5).

And I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall eat old [produce] very old [produce]. They needed a covenant concerning the produce of the sabbatical and jubilee years, that it should not rot, as Rashi explains regarding the covenant with Noah (Genesis 6:18). Therefore it says, And you shall eat old produce, very old produce, from previous years.