ד"א וכי ימוך אחיך ומכר מאחוזתו ובא גואלו הקרוב וגו', מי הוא גואלו, אני הוא, שנאמר כה אמר ה' עשוקים וגו' גואלם חזק ה' וגו' (ירמיה נ לג לד). (Lev. 25:25:) WHEN YOUR RELATIVE BECOMES POOR AND SELLS SOME OF HIS PROPERTY, THEN HIS REDEEMER SHALL COME, THE ONE MOST CLOSELY RELATED < TO HIM, AND REDEEM >…. Who is his redeemer?18Tanh., Lev. 9:3. I am he, as stated (in Jer. 50:33–34): THUS SAYS THE LORD: < THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL > ARE OPPRESSED…. THEIR REDEEMER IS MIGHTY, < HIS NAME IS > THE LORD < OF HOSTS >.
[ד"א כי ימוך אחיך[, שבעה שמות נקראו לעני, אלו הן דך עני מך רש תכך מסכן אביון. [Another interpretation (of Lev. 25:25:) WHEN YOUR RELATIVE BECOMES POOR.] Seven names are given to the poor.19Cf. Lev. R. 34:6, which lists eight names. They are the following: crushed (dakh), poor ('ani), lowly (makh), dispossessed (rash), oppressed (TKK),20Cf. Codex Vaticanus Ebr. 34; and the parallel in Tanh., Lev. 9:3, both of which read tekhakhim; cf. also Lev. R. 34:6, followed by Yalqut Shim‘oni, Lev. 665, which reads dal (“impoverished”) here. wretched (misken), and pauper (evyon).