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Parashas Bechukosai · Passuk context
Then I too will walk contrary to you, and I Myself will smite you sevenfold for your sins.
Sifra, Bechukotai (on reciprocal keri) — measure-for-measure: their occasional treatment of the mitzvot is answered by occasional (and severe) divine response.
English: “I too will walk with you keri” — just as they treated My judgments as occasional, so I will treat them as occasional in the world; measure for measure.
Middah keneged middah — reciprocal keri.
Divine “keri” is not arbitrary withdrawal. It mirrors the human pattern: when the covenant is treated as optional, the protective presence is experienced as intermittent.