וְאִ֨ם־בְּזֹ֔את לֹ֥א תִשְׁמְע֖וּ לִ֑י וַהֲלַכְתֶּ֥ם עִמִּ֖י בְּקֶֽרִי׃
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Kli Yakar
And because it mentioned an allusion about the redemption and about the exchange, it went back and mentioned an allusion that Israel would not be consumed in the length of the exile, saying, I will place My dwelling among you, and My soul shall not reject you (Leviticus 26:11). For mishkani [My dwelling] refers to the Tabernacle of Testimony, which is called “mishkan” because it was taken as a pledge [nimashken] for the sins of Israel. And it is common practice in the world that whoever has to give a pledge for their debt, the creditor does not collect lives [as payment]. Similarly, God gave Israel the Tabernacle in order to take it as a pledge if they sin, and His wrath would be spent on wood and stones. And by having a place to collect His debt from physical property, My soul shall not reject you.
This means I will not need to “rob those who rob them of life” (based on Proverbs 22:23). And what is said in the curses, My soul will reject you (Leviticus 26:30) — this means that if even after the destruction you do not take moral instruction, for it first says I will break the pride of your strength (Leviticus 26:19), which Rashi explains as referring to the Temple, and afterwards it is written And if with this you will not listen to Me, etc. (Leviticus 26:27). Regarding this it says that after your pride and strength is already destroyed, and I no longer have a place to collect My debt except from your souls, therefore it says My soul will reject you.
And what is written, I will not despise them nor reject them to destroy them completely (Leviticus 26:44) specifically means the rejection of complete destruction will not happen to them, but ordinary rejection of souls will occur if even after the destruction they are not disciplined.
This means I will not need to “rob those who rob them of life” (based on Proverbs 22:23). And what is said in the curses, My soul will reject you (Leviticus 26:30) — this means that if even after the destruction you do not take moral instruction, for it first says I will break the pride of your strength (Leviticus 26:19), which Rashi explains as referring to the Temple, and afterwards it is written And if with this you will not listen to Me, etc. (Leviticus 26:27). Regarding this it says that after your pride and strength is already destroyed, and I no longer have a place to collect My debt except from your souls, therefore it says My soul will reject you.
And what is written, I will not despise them nor reject them to destroy them completely (Leviticus 26:44) specifically means the rejection of complete destruction will not happen to them, but ordinary rejection of souls will occur if even after the destruction they are not disciplined.
Rabbeinu Bahya
הנני משליח בך..את הערוב, “I will unleash against you...the wild beasts.” You will not find that any of the other plagues was introduced with the letter ה as a form of definitive article except here. We would have expected the Torah to write here הנני משליח בך ערוב. We must remember that these wild beasts were not newly formed creatures. They already existed but the new element was that they invaded man’s habitat, something uncharacteristic. We find something similar when other kinds of disasters are mentioned in the Bible, for instance Leviticus 26,22. The Torah writes in that context והשלחתי בכם את-חית השדה ושכלה אתכם, “I will dispatch against you the wild beasts of the field and they will leave you bereft of your children.” In connection with the plague of frogs the Torah did write: “all your territory with frogs,” and the frogs were also not a new creation but simply emerged from their habitat the Nile. This is the reason that the vowel patach is under the letter ב in the word בצפרדעים (verse 27). It was to show that these frogs already existed but merely left their habitat, the Nile and its banks.