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Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Behar

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ד"א וכי ימוך אחיך ומכר מאחוזתו ובא גואלו הקרוב וגו', מי הוא גואלו, אני הוא, שנאמר כה אמר ה' עשוקים וגו' גואלם חזק ה' וגו' (ירמיה נ לג לד).

Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.

(Lev. 25:25:) WHEN YOUR RELATIVE BECOMES POOR AND SELLS SOME OF HIS PROPERTY, THEN HIS REDEEMER SHALL COME, THE ONE MOST CLOSELY RELATED TO HIM, AND REDEEM …. Who is his redeemer?¹⁸., Lev. 9:3. I am he, as stated (in Jer. 50:33–34): THUS SAYS THE LORD: THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE OPPRESSED…. THEIR REDEEMER IS MIGHTY, HIS NAME IS THE LORD OF HOSTS .

footnotes: ¹⁸ Tanh

[ד"א כי ימוך אחיך[, שבעה שמות נקראו לעני, אלו הן דך עני מך רש תכך מסכן אביון.

Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.

[Another interpretation (of Lev. 25:25:) WHEN YOUR RELATIVE BECOMES POOR.] Seven names are given to the poor.¹⁹ They are the following: crushed (dakh), poor ('ani), lowly (makh), dispossessed (rash), oppressed (TKK),²⁰ 34; and the parallel in Tanh., Lev. 9:3, both of which read tekhakhim; cf. also Lev. R. 34:6, followed by Yalqut Shim‘oni, Lev. 665, which reads dal (“impoverished”) here. wretched (misken), and pauper (evyon).

footnotes: ¹⁹ Cf. Lev. R. 34:6, which lists eight names. ²⁰ Cf. Codex Vaticanus Ebr.