Side-ring EXTRA · Equal obligation of shemirah and asiyah
Torah Temimah is silent on 20:22. Sifra reads the double phrase as assigning both “heeding” and “doing” to statutes and to judgments alike, and clarifies the nature of the inheritance of the Land.
English: “And you shall heed all of My statutes and all of My judgments, and you shall do them” — to assign heeding and doing for statutes, and heeding and doing for judgments. “and the land will not vomit you out, whither I bring you to dwell in it” — I bring you there only in order that you inherit it, not as the Canaanites who were merely caretakers of the place until you came.
Equal weight of chukim and mishpatim; inheritance vs. caretaker status
Both the opaque statutes and the transparent judgments demand the same pair of obligations: shemirah and asiyah. The Land itself is given as inheritance, not as a temporary holding; the Canaanites were only stewards awaiting Israel’s arrival.