The latter part of Ki Tavo consists of the Tochachah
("Rebuke"). After listing the blessings with which G-d
will reward the people when they follow the laws of the
Torah, Moses gives a long, harsh account of the bad
things -- illness, famine, poverty and exile -- that
shall befall them if they abandon G-d's commandments.
Moses concludes by telling the people that only today,
forty years after their birth as a people, have they
attained "a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to
hear."
FROM THE WORDS OF OUR SAGES ON
THE PARSHAH:
--And He brought us to this place, and gave us this
land (Deut. 26:9)
The Holy Temple was built by King Solomon in
Jerusalem hundreds of years after the people took
possession of the land under Joshua. The verse's order
should therefore be reversed -- "He gave us this land,
and He brought us to this place"!
But here we have an allusion to that which the Targum
Yonatan relates: that on the first Passover (while still
in Egypt) the Children of Israel were carried on "wings
of eagles" (see Exodus 19:4) to the Temple Mount, where
they brought the Passover offering. (Etz Chaim)
--Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed
shall you be when you go out (28:6)
May your departure from the world be as free of sin
as was your entry into the world. (Rashi)
