Seeing as the Pasuk is referring to the eighth year, why does the Torah write "Sh'nas ha'Shemitah be'Chag ha'Succos"?
Refer to 31:10:3:1.
Rosh Hashanah, 12b: To teach us that any produce that has grown one third of its full growth (in the Sh'mitah) before Rosh Hashanah (of the eighth year) is subject to the Dinim of Sh'mitah. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 9.
Why does the Torah need to insert "be'Vo Kol Yisrael?
Refer to 31:10:3:1.
Yerushalmi Chagigah, 1:1: To teach us that someone who is Tamei - who is not fit to come with all Yisrael to the Beis-Hamikdash - is Patur from Re'iyah and from bringing an Olas Re'iyah. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 10.
Why does the Torah add the word "es ha'Torah ha'Zos"?
Rambam (Hilchos Chagigah, 3:5): To teach us that the king must read it in Lashon ha'Kodesh (in the way that it is written) 1 - even though their are foreigners present (who do not understand Lashon ha'Kodesh).
See Torah Temimah, note 11.
What exactly did the king read?
Sotah, 41a: He read from the beginning of Devarim up until, and including the Parshah of Sh'ma, "Vehayah Im Shamo'a", "Aser Te'aser" and "Ki Sechaleh Le'aser", 1 the Parshah of 'Melech' and the B'rachos and the K'lalos.
Oznayim la'Torah (citing Rashi): Because it is the season of T'rumos and Ma'asros and Matnos Aniyim. Citing the Tur al ha'Torah, he explains that, even though Sh'mitah produce is not subject to T'rumos and Ma'asros, it is to remind people - after not having given for an entire year - to give the Matanos in the eighth year. And by the same token, he reads the Aseres ha'Dibros, to warn them not to steal and not to covet what belongs to one's fellow-Jew after a year where everything that grew in the field was Hefker.
What are the implications of "Neged Kol Yisrael" and of "be'Ozneihem"?
Who read the Torah at Hakhel and where did he read it?
Rashi: The king 1 would read from the beginning of Seifer Devarim on a wooden platform that was placed in the Azarah.
Refer to 31:9:1:2.
See Sifsei Chachamim, note 7.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
Rashi writes that the king read the Parshiyos from Seifer Devarim. What is the source for this?
Moshav Zekenim (in Pasuk 14): The Pasuk in Melachim 2 23:2
It is actually Halachh le'Moshe mi'Sinai, and the Pasuk in Navi merely supports it, like the Gemara states in Sanhedrin 22b regarding a different matter. (PF).
