Musar untuk Imamat 26:44

Thus, the Holy One, blessed is He, is compelled to hasten the redemption and open the eyes of the blind to behold the light of truth. For the Holy One, blessed is He, will not permit His children to be utterly lost, as the verse states,¹⁹Samuel II 14:14 “Lest anyone will be utterly cast out.” For they are His children, the children of His chosen ones, who He has taken and carried from the days of old, as written,²⁰Leviticus 26:44 “But even so, while they are in the land of their enemies (meaning that the Holy One, blessed is He, banished Israel so that when troubles come upon them, they will repent and improve their ways, but even there, they continue to act in this way, nevertheless) I will not reject them and will not loathe them to exterminate them, to annul My covenant with them, for I am HaShem-יהו״ה their God.”

The fourteenth thing a man should remember is how a person tends to love one who is friendly towards him, as it is written : "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man" (Prov. 27:19). All the more so, if a man sees that a king receives him with a friendly countenance and shows him that he loves him, how much will the man love him and praise him and extol him for this. All the more so are we obliged to love with all our hearts the Creator, Blessed be He, who has informed us that He loves us and has assured us that He will continue to love us in every generation. As it is said, "And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them" (Lev. 26:44).

G–d wanted him to wait a little after saying the word כארזים, "like cedars," so that it would be noticed that it was meant as a curse, not a pious wish. [The tone sign Tipcha, which is a tone sign that separates from what follows, is somewhat unexpectedly under the word ארזים, supports the thesis of the author. Ed.] It also hints at the "separation" of Israel from its roots, i.e. exile, and that is why the Talmud in Taanit says that Achiyah's curse, which did not envisage separation of the Jewish people from its homeland was more beneficial than Bileam's blessing. The South wind, which is capable of "dislocating" the cedar is a reference to Israel in exile, i.e. the cedar that has been "dislocated." The dislocation is for Israel's good however, enabling it to become refined, cleansed from sin. We see the curse as a coin with two sides, one of which contains a great blessing. All of this is predicted in the Torah's "reproofs," in Leviticus 26,44: "Yet, even then, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or spurn them, etc." This is the blessing in disguise that we have talked about.