Commento su Levitico 26:6

ונתתי שלום AND I WILL GIVE PEACE [IN THE [LAND— Perhaps you will say, “Well, there is food and there is drink; but if there is no peace, then all this is nothing!” Scripture therefore states after all these promises “I will give peace in the land”. Hence we may learn that peace counterbalances everything. In a similar sense it states: “Who makest peace and createst all things" (Sifra, Bechukotai, Chapter 1 8).

AND I WILL GIVE PEACE IN THE LAND — So that there will be peace among you, and no man shall fight against his brother,¹¹Isaiah 19:2. or “peace” may mean that He will cause evil beasts to cease out of the Land.¹²Mentioned in Verse 6 before us. In other words, it may be that the expression, And I will give peace in the Land is a completely independent thought, and what follows in the verse is another series of blessings, or it is possible that the second half of the verse explains the first half. Neither shall the sword go through your Land at all, but you will pursue your enemies,¹³See Verse 7. going forth against them in battle, and they will flee. And [the meaning of the verse] by way of the Truth, [the mystic teachings of the Cabala], is that He will give peace which will cleave to the [higher]¹⁴Ricanti. “earth,” which is the all-inclusive peace which is equal to everything.

ונתתי שלום בארץ, "and I will grant peace to the land." Why did the Torah have to mention this seeing it had already promised us that we would dwell securely in our land? Perhaps the Torah refers to the people of Israel keeping the peace amongst themselves, that there would not be internal divisiveness. G'd promises to implant a tendency for mutual tolerance amongst the people. Remember that when the Torah speaks of the land it usually describes it as "your land," i.e. the land with a suffix. When the word ארץ is used without the suffix it refers to the whole earth. In this instance you find that G'd wants universal peace. When you consider the 70 bulls the Israelites offered in the Holy Temple on behalf of the Gentile nations on Sukkot, our rabbis in Sukkah 55 speak about this. Moreover, whenever wars occur on earth even people who are at peace in their respective countries worry about their becoming themselves involved in warfare. This is why the Torah adds the assurance ושכבתם ואין מחריד, "you will lie down to sleep without anyone frightening you."