This week’s portion combines “Behar” and “Bechukotai”…
Parashat Bechukotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34)
Leviticus 26 (continued)
26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Comment: This verse starts the paragraph on blessings with the first letter “aleph” of the Hebrew Alphabet.
26:13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Comment: This verse completes the paragraph on blessings with the last letter “tav” of the entire Hebrew Alphabet. Although the paragraph on blessings does not look very lengthy, the starting letter “aleph” and the ending letter “tav” used here may symbolize a COMPLETE set of blessings. There is also an opposite hint about the two “bracketing” letters of the seemingly long paragraph on curses. See, e.g. https://evenshesiya.com/parsha-sheet-behar-bechukosai-reversing-the-flow-of-time/
Leviticus 27
27:1 And the LRD spake unto Moses, saying,
Comment: I do not know why this chapter is added here as the ending of the Book of Leviticus; it would look “more natural” to end this book with the previous Chapter 26 describing the rewards for obeying the commandments and the punishments for disobedience. There must be an interesting purpose.
27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
Comment: Although the tenth animal may vary randomly in weight, quality, appearance, …, in the long run all randomness will be averaged out and 1/10th will be separated to the LRD. This concept is called the Law of Large Numbers in mathematics [1], about which the Creator of all mathematicians surely knows!
Footnote [1]: See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers. This is, by the way, a concept that I often use in my secular research.