?ve?li?Venei Levi, Hinei Nasati ? ?. Why does the Torah add the ?Vav? in ?ve?Livnei??
R. Bachye: Because, since the Torah did not write ?Vehaysah lo u?le?Zar?o Acharav?, like it will do - in 25:13, it adds the ?Vav? to compare the Levi?im to the Kohanim in in that, like the Kohanim, the Levi?im merited ?Chok Olam B?ris Olam?. 1
Mentioned in the previous Pasuk.
?ve?li?Venei Levi, Hinei Nasati Kol Ma?asar be?Yisra?el?. What is the significance of the fact that Levi receives one tenth?
R. Bachye: It hints at the tenth Midah - Malchus 1
R. Bachye (citing Pirkei de?R. Eliezer): Correspondingly, Levi was the tenth son - working backwards from Binyamin - and it is in this regard that the Torah writes ?ha?Asiri Yih?yeh Kodesh la?Hashem? (Vayikra 27:32). See R. Bachye who elaborates.
