ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף נחמיה 12:31

ובשתי תודות – with two loaves of thanksgiving offerings, and they would carry them in the circumference around until the end of the border that they sanctify, and there they consume (that is inside) and burn the second (which is outside) , and by the word of the prophet, it is consumed and by the word of the prophet it is burned, and that is exactly what is taught in the Mishnah: “the one offered inside is eaten and the one offered outside is burned.” But from Nehemiah ben Chakhliah, he completed it as it is written regarding him (Nehemiah 12:31): “and I appointed two large thanksgiving [choirs] and processions.”

And the Land shall lie forsaken without them.¹⁷⁷Verse 43. This means that even after the remembring [of the covenant and the Land] it shall lie forsaken without them, hinting that even after the decree of Cyrus¹⁷⁸II Chronicles 36:22-23. [granting the Jews in Babylon permission to return and rebuild the Temple], the Land will still lie forsaken without them and her Sabbatical years, until nineteen years¹⁷⁹See Rashi to Ezra 1:1. after the Temple was rebuilt; and then they sanctified the city [of Jerusalem] with two thanks-offerings,¹⁸⁰Nehemiah 12:40. See also Shevuoth 14 a. and the sanctity of the Land was restored,¹⁸¹See Note 131 in Seder Behar. and they made the covenant,¹⁸²Nehemiah 10:1. and declared [among other conditions] and that we would forego the Seventh year and the exaction of every debt.¹⁸³Ibid., Verse 32. I.e., they undertook to keep the Sabbatical laws with respect to cessation of agricultural work and cancellation of debts. All events that happened to them [at the beginning of their return to the Land after the Babylonian exile] are alluded to in this section.