EXTRA 1 · The enemy consumes the produce

Parashas Ki Savo · 28:51 · Not cited by Torah Temimah

Source

Sifrei Devarim / midrashim on the Tochacha.

Core idea
וְאָכַל פְּרִי בְהֶמְתְּךָ וּפְרִי אַדְמָתֶךָ — עַד הִשָּׁמְדָךְ, אֲשֶׁר לֹא יַשְׁאִיר לְךָ דָּגָן תִּירוֹשׁ וְיִצְהָר.

English: “And it shall consume the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground” — until you are destroyed; it will leave you neither grain, wine, nor oil.

In Sifrei-style reading: The invading nation does not merely conquer; it systematically strips the land of the three staples that define agricultural life in Eretz Yisrael.

Type of Learning

Custom (measure-for-measure expansion of the agricultural curse).

What Is Learned

The curse reaches total deprivation of grain, wine, and oil — the basic produce of the Land.