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Parsha Halacha — halacha — Pekudei 5784

Выпуск: Parsha Halacha — halacha — Pekudei 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Parsha Halacha - Parshat Pikudei/Chazak Haman’s Shekalim And How Haman became Mordechais’s Slave Sponsored by Ahron and Shifra Gellman in memory of Yaakov ben Dov Ber, Elisheva Batya bas Meyer Zalman, Yoel Dovid ben Aryeh Lev, and Rifka bas Zev. Morton Borg in loving memory of Stephen's father, Shmuel Tzvi ben Pinchas, and Bella's and Morton's parents, Avraham ben Yitzchak and Leah bas HaRav Sholom Zev HaCohen To sponsor or subscribe, please email rabbicitron@hotmail.com In the Torah portion of Pikudei, Moshe sums up the donations that the Jewish people gave towards the Mishkan and what was done with the donations. Regarding the half- shekel donations, the verse says, “The silver of the counting of the congregation came to 100 talents and 1,775 shekels by the sanctuary weight… The 100 talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets for the parochet, 100 sockets to the 100 talents, a talent a socket.” The Purim Connection According to the Talmud,1 Haman’s attempt to annihilate the Jews by paying Achashverosh 10,000 talents was thwarted in the merit of the Jewish people having given the half-shekel donations. In the words of the Talmud, “It was revealed and known to the One Who spoke and the world came into being, that in the future Haman was going to weigh out shekels against the Jewish people; therefore, He arranged that the Jewish people’s shekels preceded Haman’s shekels.” Why the Need to Counter the Shekalim? Haman got the idea from Nevuchadnetzar who gave charity to the poor in order to minimize the decree that he become like a beast of the field.4 In fact, since Mordechai had purchased Haman as a slave (see the Midrash below),5 all of Haman’s wealth actually belonged to Mordechai6 and the merit of Haman’s charitable act went to Mordechai’s credit.7 Why 10,000? The commentaries offer several explanations as to how the 10,000 talents that Haman offered correspond to the amount of half-shekel coins given by the Jewish people:8 The Half-Shekel Is One Percent of our Value One of the explanations is based on the law that the value of an adult male (in terms of how much must be given to the Beit HaMikdash if

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Parsha Halacha

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15 марта 2024 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary