ביום השני הקריב וגו' נשיא יששכר. לפי ששבטו של יששכר היו חכמים בתורה שנא' ומבני יששכר יודעי בינה לעתים לכך זכו להקריב בשני ועל פי הדבור היה ולכך כתיב הקריב רחוק היה ונתקרב ורש"י פי' בענין אחר וגם פירש למה הקרב חסר יו"ד: ביום השני הקריב ...נשיא ישכר, “on the second day the prince of Issachar offered his inaugural offering; [an identical one as were those of all the twelve princes. Ed.] The reason that this tribe was accorded the honour of being the second, although according to seniority he was far younger, was that the members of this tribe excelled in Torah knowledge as has been testified to in Chronicles I 12,32: ומבני יששכר יודעי בינה לעתים, “and from among the members of the tribe Issachar, who knew how to interpret the signs of the times.” [Whereas the other tribes all sent delegations of between 20000 and 10000 for the official coronation of King David, Issachar sent only two hundred, who made up in quality for what they lacked in quantity. Ed.] This is also the reason why the word הקרב which is always spelled with the letter י after the letter ר is spelled defectively here. Rashi offers a different reason for this