פרשת וזאת הברכה תשי"ב - ההקדמה לברכות השבטים

All His holy ones the children of Levi.

they follow at Your feet they walk along Your path.

carrying forth at Your words for they shall teach the Torah (referring to those who transmit the Oral Law).

carrying forth [singular] each single individual (even though the word they is plural). Your words means that they shall carry all that You have spoken. It is they who carry the Torah, and it is also they who carry, literally, the Ark. carrying as in, “you shall not raise up groundless reports” [Exodus 23: 1].

follow There is no other word related to this word. There are some who say that it comes from “from within”, as if to say, “they go forth from within Your feet”. Others say that the tav appears in place of a heh (like the tav in “I taught Efrayim to walk” [Hosea 11: 3]), as if to say, Even though they be “beaten” on Your account, they shall not abandon Your words. But this is far-fetched. The correct interpretation of the word is similar to “they are drawn”, meaning, they will go to the place where the Ark is situated, which is “God ’s footstool” [cf. Psalms 99: 5]. This blessing, then, is that God will be a wall of flame surrounding Israel, and that His beloved, along with the Levites, will forever teach the Torah.

והם תכו לרגלך AND THEY SAT AT THY FOOT — And they are deserving of this, because they betook themselves right into the middle within the underpart of the mountain unto Thy foot at Sinai.

follow There is no other word related to this word. There are some who say that it comes from “from within”, as if to say, “they go forth from within Your feet”. Others say that the tav appears in place of a heh (like the tav in “I taught Efrayim to walk” [Hosea 11: 3]), as if to say, Even though they be “beaten” on Your account, they shall not abandon Your words. But this is far-fetched. The correct interpretation of the word is similar to “they are drawn”, meaning, they will go to the place where the Ark is situated, which is “God ’s footstool” [cf. Psalms 99: 5]. This blessing, then, is that God will be a wall of flame surrounding Israel, and that His beloved, along with the Levites, will forever teach the Torah.