## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 59

###### Sifrei Devarim 59:1
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(דברים יב א) **אֵלֶּה הַחֻקִּים** – אֵלּוּ הַמִּדְרָשׁוֹת,

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 59**²¹
1. **“These are the laws” (Dt. 12:1)—**
**rules derived from scriptural hermeneutics (*midrashot*).**

footnotes:
²¹ H:114-115; JN1:185-186.


###### Sifrei Devarim 59:2
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**וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִים** – אֵלּוּ הַדִּינִים,

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“And the rulings” (Dt. 12:1)—**
**the civil judgments (*dinim*).**


###### Sifrei Devarim 59:3
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**אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְרוּן** – זוֹ מִשְׁנָה,

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“Which you are to preserve” (Dt. 12:1)—**
**the oral-performative tradition (*mishnah*)**


###### Sifrei Devarim 59:4
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**לַעֲשׂוֹת** – זוֹ מַעֲשֶׂה,

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“By performing” (Dt. 12:1)—**
**the deeds that theTorah requires (*ma`aseh*).**²² 58.1.

footnotes:
²² See Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 59:5
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**בָּאָרֶץ**, יָכוֹל כָּל הַמִּצְווֹת כֻּלָּם נוֹהֲגוֹת בְּחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **לַעֲשׂוֹת בָּאָרֶץ**. יָכוֹל לֹא יְהוּ כָּל הַמִּצְווֹת כֻּלָּן נוֹהֲגוֹת אֶלָּא בָּאָרֶץ? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר **כָּל הַיָּמִים אֲשֶׁר אַתֶּם חַיִּים עַל הָאֲדָמָה**. אַחַר שֶׁרִבָּה הַכָּתוּב מִיעֵט, הֲרֵי אָנוּ לְמֵדִים אוֹתָן מִן הָאָמוּר בָּעִנְיָן. מָה אָמוּר בָּעִנְיָן? – (דברים יב ב) **אַבֵּד תְּאַבְּדוּן אֶת כָּל הַמְּקוֹמוֹת**. מָה עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה מְיֻחֶדֶת, שֶׁהִיא מִצְוַת הַגּוּף וְאֵינָהּ תְּלוּיָה בָּאָרֶץ – נוֹהֶגֶת בָּאָרֶץ וּבְחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ, כָּךְ כָּל מִצְוַת הַגּוּף שֶׁאֵינָהּ תְּלוּיָה בָּאָרֶץ נוֹהֶגֶת בָּאָרֶץ וּבְחוּצָה לָאָרֶץ, וְשֶׁתְּלוּיָה בָּאָרֶץ אֵינָהּ נוֹהֶגֶת אֶלָּא בָּאָרֶץ, חוּץ מִן הָעָרְלָה וְהַכִּלְאַיִם. רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: אַף הֶחָדָשׁ.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“*In* the Land” (Dt. 12:1)—
is it possible to say that
all the commandments in their entirety
are observed even beyond the Land?
[To preclude this conclusion,]
the Teaching states:
“By performing *in* the Land” (Dt. 12:1)—
Well, then, is it possible to say that
all the commandments in their entirety
are observed *only* in the Land?
The Teaching states:
“*All* the days in which you live *on* the soil” (Dt. 12:1)—
**after speaking inclusively,**
**the verse limits its own application**,²³ 77.3, 221.2, 249
[so that some commandments
are performed on *any* “soil.”]2. Look—we learn as much from
what is said in the same context!
What is said in the same context?
“You must utterly destroy *all* the places” (Dt. 12:2)—
just as the prohibition against
serving a foreign cult is unique—
as a commandment involving the body
that does not depend upon being in the Land,
yet which is practiced both in the Land and beyond the Land—
**similarly**, **all commandments involving the body,**
**that do not depend upon [that body] being in the Land,**
**are practiced both in the Land and beyond the Land**.
**And those that depend upon being in the Land,**
**are practiced only in the Land—**
**except for prohibitions against**
**consecrated fruit (Lv. 19:23) and mixed species (Lv. 19:19)**
**[which are observed both in and beyond the Land].**
**R. Eliezer says:**
**also, the prohibition of the new grain harvest (Lv. 23:11-14)**
**[until the Barley-Sheaf offering is made**
**on the second day of Passover]**²⁴ 44.1 *ad* Dt. 11:18. See the annotations there.

footnotes:
²³ This hermeneutical observation is not uncommon in SD, appearing as well at Pisqa’ot
²⁴ //M. Qid.1:9. The identical passage is cited at Pisqa’