פּירוש אויף דברים 7:15

“The Lord will ward off from you all sickness” [7:15]. This means, the Lord will ward off from you all sickness. Rav said in tractate Baba Mezia. The verse shows us that the evil eye is the greatest sickness. Rav once went to the cemetery. He did something and he learned that out of a hundred people, all died from the evil eye, and only one of a hundred died from the normal causes of death.⁴B. Baba Mezia, 107b.

All illness and all the harmful disease. Illness refers to one who falls sick in bed, even though no specific part of his body hurts him. Disease refers to pain in a certain part of the body, while the rest of the body is healthy.

AND THE ETERNAL WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THEE ALL SICKNESS — ordinary ailments which occur in the world. He further mentioned all the evil diseases of Egypt to assure the people that He will inflict them on all who hate thee. Or it may be that he is intimating that by observing the ordinances, they will be saved from them [these evil diseases], but if they do not observe them, they [the diseases] will come upon them just as they did come upon the Egyptians, as is stated in the chastisement: And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt etc.³⁴Ibid., 28:60. I have already explained this in the section And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go.³⁵Exodus 15:26 (Vol. II, pp. 212-213). Now he mentioned as the first among the ordinances, the duty to demolish and destroy the idol-worshippers.³⁶Verse 16. Therefore he said, ‘v’achalta’ [literally: “and thou shalt eat”] all the peoples,³⁶Verse 16. meaning that you should destroy them, similar to what is said, for they are bread for us;³⁷Numbers 14:9. for ‘achal’ (he hath devoured) Jacob;³⁸Psalms 79:7. ‘va’achaluhu’ (yea, they have devoured him) and consumed him,³⁹Jeremiah 10:25. and so also many similar expressions. He states thine eye shall not pity them³⁶Verse 16. as I have mentioned,⁴⁰Above in Verse 12. for, through [undue] pity of the judges all law will be destroyed.