What is the meaning of "Lo Sasig G'vul Re'acha"?
Rashi (citing the Sifri) and Ramban 1 : It is a prohibition against moving back a neighbor's border-markers, in order to expand the borders of one's own field. 2 .
Sifra (in Kedoshim, 1:3:2) and Sifri 284: It incorporates placing a vessel underneath the vine (while harvesting it) and helping one of the poor to collect [Leket, Shichechah or Pe'ah] more than others.
Ba'al ha'Turim: It is a warning to Beis Din not to switch an Ir Miklat for another town.
Alshich: It is a warning against sinning and causing Eretz Yisrael to shrink and diminish its initial boundaries. 3
Sifri #1: It is a warning against switching the opinions of R. Eliezer and R. Yehoshua when one holds Tahor, and the other, Tamei. 4
Sifri #2: It is a prohibition against 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 is a warning against altering the boundaries that earlier Chachamim established - with regard to the distance that one must leave when planting different species.
Rashi (citing the Sifri): Even though we already know this from the La'av of "Lo Sigzol", the Torah is coming to add a second La'av for someone who transgresses.
Alshich: It used to be a forty-day journey from east to west. Now 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".
What are the connotations of "asher Gavlu Rishonim be'Nachalascha asher Tinchal"?
Ramban #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: Refer to 19:14:1:1. And 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.
Shabbos, 85a: It is a warning to learn from the B'nei Se'ir "who dwelt in the land", 2 and who determined which stretch of land is good for planting olive-trees, which, for vine-trres and which for fig-trees. 3
Ramban: 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 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 confined to Eretz Yisrael and are not applicable in Chutz la'Aretz. 1 .
See Oznayim la'Torah.
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