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Parashas Bechukosai · Passuk context
I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will maintain My covenant with you.
Sifra, Bechukotai, Chapter 2:5 — parable of the king who turns aside to settle the long account with the faithful laborer.
English: “I will turn toward you” — they told a parable: a king hired many laborers, and one laborer worked with him many days. When the laborers came for their pay, that one came with them. The king said to him: My son, I will turn aside for you! These others did little work and I give them little pay; but you — a great reckoning I am destined to settle with you.
Parable / mashal derasha — preferential attention to sustained service.
Hashem “turns” to Israel not as a brief glance but as clearing the full account for long, faithful labor — while the nations receive only the short wage of limited service.