Bechukothai: us and them

The bulk of the chapter deals with the punishment for failing to observe the commandments. More specifically, the commandments that do not have a logical basis. These constitute the base of differentiation between us and then.

Rashi comments on 27:2 that he does not know the needing of the second chof. I think this comes in the context of the corresponding daf yomi.

Nazir 61 deals with a question of whether a goy has an evaluation. It would seem that this could easily be derived from the chof, using it as a restrictive identifier, i.e the evaluation process as stated is for Bnei Yisroel. Rashi's point thus becomes: why is this not the case? The answer from the Gemarra is that it is more complex than that.

The idea of Chok is a special commandment given to the Chosen People, separating them from other people (Thus bechuloseihem lo thelechu). This weeks parsha demonstrates another dimension to that separation. The dimension of enmity. The goy is Gd's instrument of torment for the Jew.

The context of the two last parshioth of Vayikra is the intrusion of chok into everyday day. Shmitah is avenged by the curses. A moment of religious fervor - the sanctification of a field and the failure to redeem it- leads to the permanent transfer of the field to the Priestly fiefdom.

Faith is rewarded with magical reward, lack of faith ... the Nazis.