What is the meaning of "Lo Sasig G'vul Re'acha"?
Rashi (citing the Sifri #1), Ramban #1, Rashbam, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It entails moving back a neighbor's border-markers, in order to expand the borders of one's own field. 1 .
Ramban #2 and R. Bachye #2: Refer to 19:14:2:1.
R. Bachye #3: Perehaps it is a prohibition against denying that Hashem created the world. 2
Ba'al ha'Turim: It is a warning to Beis Din not to switch an Ir Miklat for another town.
Sifri #2: It incorporates placing a vessel underneath the vine (while harvesting it) and helping one of the poor to collect [Leket, Shikchah or Pe'ah] more than others.
Sifri #3: It is a warning against switching the opinions of R. Eliezer and R. Yehoshua when one holds Tahor, and the other, Tamei. 4
Sifri #4: It entails selling one's ancestors' burial site 5 - provided at least one member of the family has already been buried there. 6
Midrash Mishlei 22:28: It is a warning against changing the customs of earlier generations.
Shabbos 85a: It entails altering the boundaries that earlier Chachamim established - with regard to the distance that one must leave when planting different species. 7
Refer to 19:14:1.1:1.
See R. Bachye.
Alshich: It used to be a forty-day journey from east to west. Today it is only one day's journey.
See Torah Temimah note who elaborates.
See Torah Temimah, note 29.
Since the Torah inserts "be'Nachalascha asher Tinchal".
See Torah Temimah,, citin Shabbos, ibid. and note 31.
Seeing as someone who moves back the borders of his neighbor's field transgresses "Lo Sigzol", why does the Torah need to insert the current Pasuk?
Sifri: To render someone who does so guilty of two La'avin. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 28, who elaborates.
What are the connotations of "asher Gavlu Rishonim be'Nachalascha asher Tinchal"?
Ramban #1 and R. Bachye #1: It incorporates a prohibition against changing the borders of a field that Elazar ha'Kohen, Yehoshua bin Nun and the princes of the tribes designated to a tribe or to an individual. 1
Ramban #2: With reference to 19:14:1:1 - it mentions "asher Gavlu Rishonim" only because it is unusual to move the border-markers of a new property, since everybody knows who the owner is.
R. Bachye #2: With reference o 19:14:1:3 - "asher Gavlu ha'Rishonim" refers to the Avos and Moshe Rabeinu, who demonstrated their belief testified to the creation in all that they did. 2
Shabbos, 85a: It is a warning to learn from the B'nei Se'ir "who dwelt in the land", 3 and who determined which stretch of land is good for planting olive-trees, which, for vine-trres and which for fig-trees. 4
Ramban and R. Bachye: And it is forbidden to question the validity of these Tzadikim or to pour scorn on the Divine power of the lots that they drew to determine the portions of each tribe and of each individual family.
See R. Bachye.
See Torah Temimah, citing Shabbos, Ibid.
See Torah Temimah, note 31.
See Torah Temimah, note 32.
Why does the Torah insert the words "asher Gavlu Rishonim"?
Teshuvos R. Sherira Ga'on:: To teach us the importance of a Minhag. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 32.
What are the implications of "be'Nachalascha asher Tinchal ba'Aretz ... "?
Rashi and Ramban (citing the Sifri): This implies that although someone who moves one's neighbors border-markers in Chutz la'Aretz transgresses only "Lo Sigzol" but not "Lo Sasig G'vul". 1
See Torah Temimah, note 28.
Why does the Torah juxtapose the La'av of "Lo Sasig G'vul" to the Din of Arei Miklat?
Oznayim la'Torah: Because both of them (are Mitzvos that are connected to the land - of Eretz Yisrael and) are not applicable in Chutz la'Aretz. 1 .
See Oznayim la'Torah.
Why does the Torah juxtapose this Parshah to that of a murderer?


