Parashas Ki Savo · Passuk from filename
Torah Temimah points to Torah Temimah citation.
English: “a nation of fierce countenance” — in which there is no mercy, neither for the elder nor for the youth. “that will not respect the person of the old nor show favor to the young” — this teaches that this nation does not distinguish between great and small; everything is equal before it for evil.
Custom (phrase-by-phrase or midrashic expansion of the verse).
The midrash extracts concrete legal, historical or theological referents from the wording of the passuk, giving the brief biblical language a fuller operational meaning.