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In the beginning of this week's Torah portion, Moses gathers the Children
of Israel and promises them that because they have kept God's commandments in
the desert, God will keep His covenant with them. He will bless them and
multiply them and grant them success in the Land of Israel. The Hebrew word for
"because" in this verse,
'eikev', is the same Hebrew word for heel. According to the sages, the use of
the word 'eikev' hints to the fact that all the commandments must be kept
equally, even the ones that seem unimportant, the ones that people tend to
figuratively walk on with their heels. If they are careful to follow all the
commandments of God, even the seemingly insignificant ones, then the covenant
will be kept, and they will certainly be rewarded with great blessings in the
Promised Land.
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