Shlomah Sofer explains: If one doesn’t have time to learn in the depth, and he goes ahead and learns in depth anyway and doesn’t learn things which are halachah lema’aseh, Hashem cries.
Finally, the Madanay Asher answers: The poskim tell us that it’s forbidden to learn during chazoras hashatz (R’ Chaim Kanievsky goes as far as to say, that one doesn’t fulfill his obligation of shnayim mikra if he does it during chazoras hashatz). Perhaps, the Gemara is referring to one who learns during chazoras hashatz, if one learns at such a time - when he shouldn’t be learning, Hashem cries.
3) R’ Aharon Leib Steinman (Ayalas HaShachar) addresses this question. He answers, that what we have to say is, Klal Yisroel themselves won’t be busy with gathering the produce, rather, Klal Yisroel will sit and learn and they will have slaves doing it for them, and the pasuk:ועמדו זרים ורעו צאנכם - “strangers will arise and graze the sheep”, will be fulfilled. However, this leaves us with another question: Where will Klal Yisroel get so many slaves from?
Before we answer this question, it’s worth mentioning the Ramban (on pasuk 6) who writes that all the berachos mentioned in this parsha, will be take place in the future when Moshiach comes.
The Gemara in Shabbos (32b) teaches: “Reish Lokish said: Anyone who is careful with the mitzvah of tzitzis will merit to have 2,800 slaves serving him”.
Rashi explains: “For each corner of the tzitzis one will have ten slaves of each language - which totals 700 for the 70 languages, the tzitzis have four corners, 4 x 700 = 2,800”.
In the future we will all have at least 2,800 slaves. In every house there are a few males who keep the mitzvah of tziztis, so in each and every house alone there will be a few thousand slaves! These slaves will work in the fields and gather together all the produce.
However, this once again leaves us with another question: Why did they need so many slaves? Surely 30 or 40 per household would be enough?
R’ Chaim Kanievsky zt”l in Derech Sicha (Vol. 2, Shlach) addresses a similar question and he says, that there is a mitzvah of shevisas avdo, letting a slave rest. And for each slave there is a separate mitzvah. Consequently, the more slaves one has, the more mitzvos of shevisas avdo he gets, therefore, it was worth having lots of slaves.
Along the same lines, perhaps we can add: Each Jew owned thousands of slaves in order that he could fulfill the constant mitzvah of לעולם בהם תעבודו – “you shall always work them”, as many times as possible.
Perhaps we can offer another answer to explain why people would need so many slaves. The Gemara in Shabbos (30b) says: “R’ Gamliel taught, in the future (days of Moshiach) women will give birth to a child every day”. One of the talmidim present laughed, R’ Gamliel said, “It’s not so surprising, go look at chickens, chickens give birth every day”.
It’s clear from Rashi that the Gemara is to be understood literally, that in the days of Moshiach, women will give birth every day.
If this happens, a women will give birth to 365 children a year, and after 10 years she will have a family of 3650. Understandably, a family with over 3000 children under the age of 10 could do with lots of extra hands to help out.
However, this once again leaves us with another question: If the slaves are looking after the children and taking care of all the business, are we not worried about them stealing, and even more importantly, what will be with the chinuch [education] of the children?
To answer a similar question, the Satmar Rebbe (Divrei Yoel) explains, that in the future there will be nothing to worry about. There will be such peace between the Jew’s and the non-Jew’s, the non-Jew’s will be desperate to help out and do the best they can to help out the Jew’s and to be associated with them. Like it says in Avodah Zorah (3b): In the future, the non-Jew’s on their own accord will want to become Jewish. Since they will be desperate to help the Jew’s, we don’t need to worry about them stealing and doing anything wrong, and on the contrary, they will do their best to make sure that the Jewish children grow up as good Jewish children. (Pikudechah Dorashti)
4) Rav Moshe Shternbuch (Taam V’Daas) notes that the parsha repeatedly (e.g., 26:21) emphasizes that the punishments are intended for those who behave casually with Hashem, meaning that they assume that everything that occurs to them is arbitrary. Because they ascribe their suffering to bad luck, they feel no reason to take normal precautions to protect themselves and have no qualms about carrying their dead out of Yerusholayim for burial even while it is under siege.
Rav Zev Leff (Outlooks and Insights) cites Rashi (26:14), who explains that these punishments are due to a lack of toil in Torah study, meaning that they do still learn, but only superficially. As a result, they come to incorrect conclusions about relative values and priorities, falsely believing that one must risk his life for the sanctity of Yerusholayim.
