A Thought on Parshios Behar and Bechukosaid

"...be'Har Sinai..." "...at Mt. Sinai..." (25:1) The following lines are the Gan's introduction to Parshas Behar: "All of the parshios, from the beginning of Sefer VaYikra, were given in the Ohel Moed because all of them apply in the Ohel Moed. The sacrifices, purity and impurity laws, eating the offerings, rules for those with tzaras, ziva, keri, child-birthing, the Mishkan inauguration...the whole range of subjects. All of these pertained to the Ohel Moed. However, these next two parshios are not relevant to the Ohel Moed. They are not relevant to the Kohanim. The verses which discuss Yovel and Arachin here do have a slight connection to the Kohanim in that the Shofar was blown on Yovel by the Kohanim, and the Kohanim were involved in the assessments done for Arachin. Nonetheless, the subject matter of these two parshios is really unrelated to the Ohel Moed, and you should not err in thinking otherwise. So, even though the entire Torah was given at Sinai, and most of VaYikra was then re-presented in the Ohel Moed where its laws and rules were relevant, the content of Behar and Bechukosai is unrelated to the Ohel Moed and their information was not in fact re-presented in that place during that interval in our history. The only time that the information in our two parshios was introduced was in the original giving of the Torah at Sinai. It is for this reason, then, that the parsha begins with "this is what HaShem told Moshe at Har Sinai." The intention of that preface is to clarify that what follows is unrelated to the Ohel Moed and is information which was presented to us one time only, earlier on, at Sinai." This, explains the Gan, is perhaps a simpler "pshat" level answer to the question posed by Rashi (in the name of the Sifra) "what does Shmita and Yovel have to do with Sinai?" Whereas Rashi offers a midrashic explanation in his answer, the Gan allows his historical perspective to clarify very lucidly the context wherein HaShem told Moshe these parshios specifically and exclusively at Sinai. Our parsha begins with the introduction "these were told at Mt. Sinai" because they are exceptions to the general theme of all prior passages in Sefer VaYikra. The other parshios were repeated in the Ohel Moed but Behar and Bechukosai were said at Sinai, period. This is the Gan's alternative approach to the question "mah inyan shmita etzel Har Sinai" - what does shmita have to do with Sinai? His answer is that shmita ONLY has to do with Har Sinai. The Gan was written by 13th century Rabbeinu Aharon ben Yosi haCohen, Baal Tosfos More pirushim presented by Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox at http://thoughtonparsha.blogspot.com/