Musar su Geremia 50:17

And that is why we find many times in the words of Chazal that if one transgresses, G-d forbid, he thereby harms all of Israel, for they [he and all the rest] are like one body. And if one has a great pain in one organ, the other organs, too, even though their pain is not so great, still feel a "vibration" of that pain. As we find in Vayikra Rabbah 84: "(Jeremiah 50:17): 'A scattered lamb is Israel.' Israel is compared to a lamb. Just as a lamb, if it is hurt in one of its organs, all of them feel it, so Israel — one sins and all feel it. R. Shimon b. Yochai said: 'This may be compared to [an instance of] men sailing in a boat. One of them takes a drill and starts drilling under him. His friends say to him: "Why are you doing this?" He answers: "What business is it of yours? Am I not drilling under me?" And they say: "But you are flooding the boat on us!"'"

The animal שור, ox, has its origin in the emanation גבורה, as we know from Ezekiel's vision of the מרכבה (Ezekiel 1,10): ופני שור מהשמאל, "And the face of the ox from the Left." The lamb mentioned in our verse (22,1), however, refers to Israel the lamb, in dispersion. Jacob's and hence Israel's attribute is תפארת, harmony, the Torah refers to this by hinting that transmigrations of souls due to either the attribute of שור or שה will not result in the souls ultimately becoming נדחים, outcast. The Torah did not need to tell us that transmigrations due to the attribute of חסד would not result in those souls becoming outcast. It is quite clear that such transmigrations were designed to add even greater luster to the personalities these souls represent.

עמוד התורה . I have already explained that all the levies which the Torah legislates for the benefit of the priests and the Levites are designed to enable their recipients to devote themselves to a life of study and dissemination of Torah. They have been charged by the Torah with teaching Israel the Torah (33,10). The entire universe was created for the sake of Torah. It is significant that the gifts the Torah allocates to the priests and Levites comprise parts of the inert, the vegetable world, the animal kingdom, as well as the firstborn male human beings. They receive certain cities to dwell in, i.e. part of the inert portion of the universe. The tithes represent the vegetable matter, whereas the cheeks, stomachs and thighs of the animals slaughtered for consumption represent their share of the animal kingdom. This is in addition to their receiving the ראשית הגז, the tithes of the firstlings of the shearings. Rabbi Menachem Habavli writes that just as the hairs of the goats are for the goats and the goats dance there (cf. Isaiah 13,21 describing satyrs dancing), so the ראשית הגז is for the priests seeing G–d has chosen them to perform the sacrificial service and to serve as atonement for the sins of the Jewish people referred to by Jeremiah 50,17 as שז פזורה ישראל. The priests even receive a share of the part of the universe called המדבר, i.e. human beings, when they are offered the first-born sons of the other tribes for redemption. The priests are commanded to perform their service in shifts, משמרות, just as the angels in the Celestial Sanctuary perform those duties in rotation.