1)

Why does the Torah insert the 'Hey' in "ve'ha'Beged"?

1.

Shabbos, 26b: To include a piece of cloth that is three by three fingerbreadths in the Din of Nig'ei Begadim. 1

2.

Sifra: To include a Beged of Sha'atnez in the Din of Nig'ei Begadim. 2


1

Even though the minimum size for Tum'as Medras is three by three Tefachim (Torah Temimah).

2

See Torah Temimah, note 201.

2)

Why does the Torah insert the 'Vav' in "ve'ha'Beged"?

1.

Sifra: To connect it with the previous Pasuk - to teach us that stricken Begadim must be sent out of the camp just like stricken people.

3)

What can we learn from the comparison of a woolen garment to a linen one?

1.

Sifra: To compare wool to linen which is normally not dyed), to confine the Din of Nig'ei Begadim to white woolen garments - and not to colored ones. 1

2.

Bechoros, 17a: To compare wool to linen, which is natural (unchanged) - to preclude the wool of a Nidmeh (a lamb whose mother is a goat) from the Din of Nig'ei Begadim.


1

See Torah Temimah, note 202.

4)

Why does the Torah repeat the word "Beged" so many times in the current Pesukim?

1.

Sifra #1 (according to R. Yehudah): To teach us that, like Beged, all the various items that are mentioned in the following Pasuk only become subject to Nig'ei Begaim after they are completed - 'Shesi' (of wool), after it has been boiled, 'Areiv' (of wool) immediately and pieces of flax, as soon as they have been bleached.

2.

Sifra #2: To teach us that all the items are only subject to Nig'ei Begadim if they have been woven at least the Shi'ur of three by three fingerbreadths. 1

3.

Sifra #3: It precludes the strands that protrude from the Beged of each item from the Din of Nig'ei Begadim. 2


1

Torah Temimah: The minimum size that is considered a Beged.

2

The Sifra actually learns this from "Beged" in Pasuk 49.

5)

Why does the Torah insert the Parshah of Nig'ei Begadim in between Nig'ei Adam and Taharah from Tzara'as?

1.

Hadar Zekenim in Pasuk 46 (citing the Bechor Shor): Because , since there is no such thing as a Metzora who does not need to Tovel his clothes, the Torah teaches the Taharah of Adam and of Begadim together.

6)

Why does the Torah write "ve'ha'Beged asher Yih'yeh bo ha'Nega" and not "Ki Yih'yeh Nega ba'Beged"?

1.

Moshav Zekenim: It alludes to the Isur of wearing the boastful clothes of Nochrim, since their priests have a symbol of idolatry on their garments.

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