1)

Why does the Torah insert here "Ani Hashem Elokeichem ... "?

1.

Rashi: To inform us that, since Hashem took us out of Egypt and performed with us great miracles, we can have faith in Him and believe that He is capable of fulfilling all the B'rachos listed above.

2)

What are "Motos"?

1.

Rashi and Rashbam: "Motos" are the staves that are stuck into the two ends of the yoke, 1 preventing the straps from slipping from the head of the ox.

1

Rashi and Rashbam: As in Yirmiyah, 27:2.

3)

What are the connotations of "Kom'miyus"?

1.

Rashi and Targun Yonasan: It means walking erect. 1

2.

Targum Onkelos: It means 'free'. 2

3.

Bava Basra 75b: It means that, in the era of Mashi'ach, the men and women will be two hundred Amos tall - twice the height of Adam ha'Rishon, whom Hashem initially created a hundred Amos tall, according to R. Meir, and one hundred Amos tall - corresponding to the Heichal of the second Beis-Hamikdash and its walls according to R. Yehudah. 3

1

Rashbam: When the yoke is removed from the ox, it raises its head.

2

See also Ba'al ha'Turim.

3

See Torah Temimah, citing Bava Basra, Ibid. and note 27.

4)

When did all the above B'rachos materialize?

1.

Ramban: To date, they have never taken place in their entirety - since Yisrael have not merited it. 1 However, they are destined to materialize in the days of Mashi'ach. 2

1

Ramban: Even in the era of David ha'Melech, as the Gemara explains in Mo'ed Katan, 16b.

2

Refer also to 26:12:1:1. Ramban: The Sifra actually applies some of the Pesukim to the era of Mashi'ach. See for example, 2:2 and 3:3.

5)

Why does the Torah not include the world of Neshamos (after death) and Olam ha'Ba (after Techiyas ha'Meisim) in the B'rachos?

1.

Ramban: Seeing as the Torah (in 18:29) finds it necessary to sentence some sinners to Kareis (excision from the world to Come), it is self-understood that the Neshamos of those people who do not sin will automatically go to Olam ha'Ba - It is not therefore necessary to mention it. 1

1

Ramban: This is because Hashem breathed the Neshamah into man (as the Torah writes in Bereishis, 2:7), and is not therefore subject to destruction or to disintegration - since it is not formed from parts, as physical beings are. Consequently, the Torah needs to teach us that, on account of man's sins, it is rejected and cut-off, but not that it continues to exist in Olam ha'Ba. (See Ramban DH 've'Ta'am ha'Inyan', who elaborates).

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

6)

Rashi writes that Kom'miyus" means 'upright stature'. But in Pasuk 9 he learned this from "Vehirbeisi Eschem"?

1.

Revid ha'Zahav (Geresh Karmel): It is repeated, to add Komah on to Komah, until the Shi'ur of Adam ha'Rishon. Hashem needed to decrease Adam's height when he expelled him from Gan Eden. You will be there, so you can attain his full height!

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