1)

Why does the Torah insert this Pasuk here, and then continue with the K'lalos?

1.

Seforno: Because it is only some of the people who will confess and do Teshuvah, such as Daniel and Ezra and a few others like them - most of them did not. 1

2.

Ramban #1 (citing the Ibn Ezra): The Torah inserts the Viduy here in connection with the following Pasuk, to inform us that Yisrael will ultimately do Teshuvah, as Hashem intended them to when He chastised them by bringing them (back) to the land of their enemies. 2

3.

Ramban #2: Because, even after they confessed on their sins, 3 Hashem will bring them back to Eretz Yisrael - which they will not recapture, 4 and where they will suffer endlessly at the hand of oppressors and enemies. 5


1

Refer to 26:40:1:2.

2

Refer to 26:40:1:2.

3

But did not fully repent.

4

Refer to 26:41:1:2.

5

Ramban: See Nechemyah, 4:5, 9.

2)

Why does the Torah only mention Viduy, and not a complete Teshuvah, as it does after the K'lalos in Ki Savo ? in Nitzavim at the beginning of the chapter 30?

1.

Ramban: This is another of the many proofs that the K'lalos in Bechukosai refer to the era of the first Beis Hamikdash and Churban and the period that followed, 1 and the K'lalos on Ki Savo, to the era of the second Beis-Hamikdash and its Churban, whose termination depends on Yisrael doing Teshuvah. 2


1

Ramban: Where they tended to recite Viduy without doing genuine Teshuvah ? See for example, Daniel. 9:5 and Nechemyah, 1:6 & 7.

2

Refer also to 26:16:7:1.

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