1)

What are the connotations of the latter half of the Pasuk?

1.

Rashi #1: 'If you separate from them (the nations) you belong to Me (to serve Me - Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan). If you don't, you belong to Nevuchadnetzar and his associates, and you will be exiled from the holy land'.

2.

Rashi #2 (citing R. Elazar ben Azaryah in the Sifra): It is teaching us to say 'I would love to eat the flesh of a Chazir, but I cannot, since Hashem decreed that I may not!' 1 and not 'Pork disgusts me!' 'I cannot possiblywaer Sha'atnez!'

1

Rashi: 'One separates from sin for the sake of Hashem (because Hashem commanded us to); One separates from sin and takes upon oneself the fear of Hashem'. See also Torah Temimah, note 59.

2)

?Va?avdil eschem min ha?Amim ? ?. Why does the Torah specifically use the term ?min ha?Amim??

1.

R. Bachye: Because ?Amim? also has connotations of dark (the Targum of ?Keiheh? (dark) ? in 13:6 - is ?Amya?. Indeed, the nations are called ?Amim? because their eyes are dim, because they do not see the light of Torah. 1

1

See R. Bachye.

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