## Da'at Zekenim on Deuteronomy Chapter 22

###### Da'at Zekenim on Deuteronomy 22:6:1
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**כי יקרא קן צפור.** לכך נסמכו פרשיות הללו לומר דמצוה גוררת מצוה שע"י שלוח הקן יזכה לאורך ימים ושיבנה בית חדש ויעשה מצות מעקה ומה כתיב אחריו לא תזרע כרמך כלאים שתזכה לכרם ולזרוע ומה כתיב אחריו לא תחרוש בשור ובחמור יחדו שתזכה לשוורים וחמורי' ולא תחרוש בהם יחדו ומה כתיב אחריו לא תלבש שעטנז שתזכה לטלית נאה ותעשה בו ציצית וגדולה מצות ציצית כדמסיק בפרק במה מדליקין כל הזהיר במצות ציצית זוכה ומשמשין אותו שני אלפים ושמונה מאות עבדים שנא' ביום ההוא יחזיקו עשרה אנשים וכו'. ד"א כי יקרא זש"ה קורא דגר ולא ילד עושה עושר ולא במשפט מה כתיב אחריו כסא כבוד מרום מראשון מה ענין זה לזה ללמדך שהקורא הזה מביא ביצים משאר עופות ויושב עליהן עד שיוצאים מקליפתן ונעשים אפרוחים והן עולין עליו ומורטין את כנפיו ואוכלין אותו וכשהוא רוצה לברוח אינו יכול ומצא אותו חיה או שרץ ואוכלו מי גרם לו זה על שגזל ביצים שאינם שלו כך עכו"ם שפשטו ידיהם בכסא הכבוד שהחריבו ביתו ושרפו היכלו לסוף יאבד זכרם:

**Daat Zekenim translated by Rb. Eliyahu Munk:**
כי יקרא כן צפור לפניך בדרך, “if you encounter by chance a bird’s nest on your way, etc.;” the reason why these paragraphs follow one another is that the performance of one commandment brings in its wake the performance of additional commandments. (Compare Devarim Rabbah, 6,4 on our portion). Seeing that the reward for the performance of the commandment just discussed results in your enjoying long life, you will have the opportunity to devote yourself for more years to Torah study. When you build a house for yourself, you will be able to perform the commandment of erecting a fence on the edges of its roof to protect anyone from falling off it. When the Torah follows with the warning not to mix seeds of different plants when planting a vineyard, you will enjoy harvesting the fruit of that vineyard. When you are warned not to harness an ox and a donkey to the same plough, [as it would result in the donkey suffering pain, seeing it is so much weaker. Ed.] you will enjoy owning many oxen and many donkeys as a result of observing that commandment. When the Torah subsequently warns you not to wear garments in which linen and wool have been woven in the same cloth [except when commanded to do so for the tzitzit in certain situations], you will be able to afford buying a beautiful tallit on which to perform the commandment to attach these fringes. (Compare Tanchuma, section 2). The commandment to own garments which qualify for the attaching of these fringes is extremely important as we know from the Talmud, tractate Shabbat folio 32. According to a statement on that folio, anyone who is meticulous about the observance of that commandment will eventually be in command of 2800 servants. This statement is based on Zecharyah 8,23: בימים ההמה אשר יחזיקו עשרה אנשים מכל לשונות הגוים והחזיקו בכנף איש יהודי לאמר נלכה עמכם כי שמענו אלוקים עמכם, “in those days ten men from nations of every tongue will take hold,-they will take hold of every Jew by a corner of his cloak and say: ‘let us go with you, for we have heard that G–d is with you.’ [There are 70 tongues, multiplied by ten multiplied by four corners on each garment of a Jew adorned with tzitzit. Ed.] This is also the interpretation of Jeremiah 17,11-12: קורא דגר ולא ילד, עושה עושר ולא במשפט, “like a partridge announcing that it has hatched young when this is not true, or like amassing riches illegally;” this is followed by the line: “כסא כבוד מרום מראשון, “o throne of glory exalted from of old;” how does this line connect with the line preceding it?” it teaches that the partridge proclaiming to have hatched young from its eggs had stolen those eggs from another species of bird sitting on them only after they had already been hatched. Then they proceed to eat those chicks which belong to another category of bird. When the chicks try to fly and are unable to, they become victims to predators. Who caused this sequence? Whoever steals eggs that are not his own. The prophet uses this simile to describe the gentiles who boast about their ill gotten gains which are the result of robbery. These gentiles, who destroyed the Holy Temple by burning it, will eventually have to pay for their crime by becoming totally extinct. (Compare Tanchuma, section two on our portion)


###### Da'at Zekenim on Deuteronomy 22:10:1
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**לא תחרוש בשור ובחמור יחדו.** לפי שהשור מעלה גרה ומצטער החמור כשישמע השור (והחמור) אוכל:

**Daat Zekenim translated by Rb. Eliyahu Munk:**
לא תחרוש בשור ובחמור יחדיו, “You shall not plough with and ox and a donkey together.” The ox is a pure species chewing the cud, whereas the donkey is an impure species. When the donkey hears the ox chewing food it pains him. [Apparently, chewing the cud is a noisy procedure. Ed.]


###### Da'at Zekenim on Deuteronomy 22:11:1
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**לא תלבש שעטנז.** לפי שהפרכת נעשה משש ושש כיתנא ומתכלת ותכל' עמרא הרי צמר ופשתים יחדיו ולא רצה הקב"ה שיעשו בניו דוגמתו כמו שמצינו בקטרת איש אשר יעשה כמוה להריח בה וגו' וכן אחז"ל לא יעשה אדם בית תבנית היכל אכסדרה תבנית אולם וכו' דבר אחר לפי שהקריב קין זרע פשתן והבל הביא מבכורות צאנו שהוא מין צמר לא רצה הקב"ה שיתחברו יחד לפי שלשם נחלקו:

**Daat Zekenim translated by Rb. Eliyahu Munk:**
לא תלבש שעטנז, “do not wear a garment consisting of wool and linen intertwined.” The reason for this prohibition is that the dividing curtain in the Temple was made of a mixture of fine linen and wool dyed blue. G–d did not want Jews to wear something symbolising that dividing curtain behind which was the Holy Ark from the lid of which the voice of G–d could be heard. (by Moses) The same warning not to duplicate such sacred combinations was issued to the people in connection with the ingredients and quantities of the spices in the k’toret, incense to be offered up twice daily. (Compare Exodus 30,38, and the Talmud in tractate Rosh Hashanah folio 24) People are also not to build annexes to their houses by duplicating measurements used for the Temple. An alternate reason offered for this prohibition of mixing wool and linen, is that Kayin’s offering consisted of linen, and Hevel’s of wool, and is therefore a reminder of jealousy and hatred, the opposite of what the Torah stands for.


###### Da'at Zekenim on Deuteronomy 22:22:1
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**ומתו גם שניהם.** פרש"י גם לרבות הבאים אחריהם ואמר שאם בא איש עליה לאחר שנגמר דינה שחייב מיתה. דסלקא דעתך אמינא דכמתה דמיא ולא לחייב עליה קמ"ל גם:

**Daat Zekenim translated by Rb. Eliyahu Munk:**
ומתו גם שניהם, “and they are both to die as a result.” Rashi comments that the apparently extraneous word גם also, means that also the offspring of such a forbidden union is to die. He adds that if a man had cohabited with the woman in question after she had been condemned to die by the court that man is subject to the same penalty. The Torah had to add this as we might have thought that as soon as the woman had been convicted she was legally already considered as no longer alive.