How Scripture Steers Poverty and Curse Away From Israel

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 434:1

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Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman said two lines about this. "However, there shall be no needy among you" (Deuteronomy 15:4), but when it comes to another matter, "For the needy shall not cease from your midst" is not written here, but only "from the midst of the land" (Deuteronomy 15:11). Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman said another line about it: "These shall stand to bless the people" (Deuteronomy 27:12), but when it comes to another matter, "these shall stand to curse the people" is not written here, but only, "And these shall stand for the curse," and moreover, when retribution comes to the world the righteous suppress it, as it is said, "And these shall stand over the curse."

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