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text: Kitzur Baal Haturim on Leviticus
  קיצור בעל הטורים על ויקרא
  Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
  
  
  Kitzur Baal Haturim on Leviticus
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  And He called. The א of ויקרא is written as a small letter because Moshe wanted to write ויקר (and it happened), the way it is written regarding Bilaam, which implies God appeared to him only as a chance occurrence. God, however, told him to write the א which indicates His love, but Moshe made it small.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The fat. This is because it comes to atone for the sin committed due to having become fat, as it says (Devarim 32:15): And Yeshurun became fat and rebelled; you grew fat, thick and rotund. Therefore, he brings the fat as if he offered up his own fat.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  And he blessed them. The three blessings of the Kohanim (Bamidbar 6, 24-26) correspond to three types of offerings: The first blessing corresponds to sin offerings, “and may He guard you” — from sin, as it says (Shmuel I 2:9), “The feet of His pious ones He will guard”; “May he cause His face to shine” corresponds to the burnt offering [<i>olah</i>], as it says (Shemos 34:24), “When you go up [<i>ba’aloscha</i>] to see”; “peace” corresponds to the peace offerings.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  And atone. In <i>gematriyah</i> this equals “זה בוידוי דברים” (this is with oral confession), for his confesses on the bullock of his sin-offering.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  You shall not gather. The commandment, “you shall not steal,” is juxtaposed to this to warn a property owner not to steal from what is fitting for the poor, and also to warn the poor not to steal from the property owner more than what they are entitled.
  
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  An elder and you shall have fear. This is a warning to the elderly person that he should not cause others trouble. 
  It states, “in the presence of the elderly,” and close by it says, “If a proselyte comes to live with you,” to inform that even in the presence of an ignorant elder you shall rise.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  You shall make him holy. Three times holiness is mentioned in the verse: To [hint that the <i>kohein</i> should] speak first, that he should bless first, and we should give him the nice portion first.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  I will break the pride of your power. The <i>gematriah</i> (numerical value of the letters) of את גאון is זה המקדש (this is the Temple). The <i>gematriah</i> of the phrase את גאון עוזכם isזה ירושלים (this is Jerusalem).