What are the connotations of ?Vesheireis es Echav"?
Rashi #1: Refer to 8:26:1:1.
Rashi (in Avos, 5:21): It means in an advisory capacity 1 - to teach them the various aspects of the Avodah of a Ben Levi.
Sifri: It means that they should guard the gates and transport the Keilim (the latter, as long as they were in the desert). 2
What are the connotations of "Lishmor Mishmeres"?
Rashi: It means to camp around the Ohel Mo'ed, and to erect and dismantle it when they traveled.
Why does the Torah repeat "ve'Lo Ya'avod Od?
Oznayim la'Torah: To teach us that, at the age of fifty, just as the B'nei K'has ceased carrying and began performing the lighter work of the B'nei Gershon and Merari, 1 so too, did the B'nei Gershon and Merari cease loading the wagons and began guarding.
Refer to 8:25:153:1.
What is the Torah referring to when it concludes "Kachah Ta'aseh la'Levi'im be'Mishmerosam"?
Rashbam: With reference to Pasuk 24 (Refer to 8:24:2:3)it means that from the age of twenty-five, and also after the age of fifty - when a ben Levi is not eligible to carry the Keilim - they are available to guard the Mishkan. 1
But between thirty and fifty, he does other Avodah, and is not often available to guard. (PF)
"Kachah" always teaches that something is Me'akev. Why is it needed here, seeing as the Torah already stated "Lo Ya'avod Od"? (Moshav Zekenim),
Refer to 8:26:.153:1* & 8:26:2:1.
