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Torah Portion -
KiSisa
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Written by yehuda katz
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KI SISA
"The wealthy shall not increase and the poor shall not decrease from 1/2 a shekel....................." (30:15)
"The wealthy shall not increase and the poor shall not decrease from 1/2 a shekel....................."(30:15) Hashem is commanding Mosha to make a count of the males from the age of 20 and up. Each male would only be allowed to give 1/2 a shekel, and by so doing the males would be counted. A question, can be asked as follows: Why was a 1/2 shekel chosen? I would like to propose the following original answer, Bezrat Hashem. The wealthy of verse 30:15 is perhaps referring to a person who is rich in Torah and Mitzvoth, and the poor of the verse is referring to a person who is lacking in good deeds. When the Torah commands these individuals to give 1/2 a shekel, there is a lesson that the Torah wishes to teach these individuals that is pertinent to their particular circumstance. A person who has done alot of good might think that he has reached his potential and need not be concerned any further in trying to improve himself. Yet when the Torah commands him to give 1/2 a shekel, he soon realizes that what his giving is only 1/2 not a whole. He will soon realize that he too is only 1/2 of what he could be, and will begin to examine his ways as to how he can further improve his ways even better. Nobody is truly complete, only G-d is perfect.
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Torah Portion -
KiSisa
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Written by Simi Hibbert
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When משה left his audience with פרעה the פסוק says "ויפן ויצא מעם פרעה" (י:ו). The אבן עזרא brings down a מאן דאמר that the word ויפן implies he left rudely by turning his back towards פרעה. However, when משהleft the top of הר סיני holding the לוחות the word ויפן is also used, suggesting he turned his back towards the רבש"ע. How could משה act similarly towards ה' and seemingly infringe on such basic דרך ארץ?
Explains ר' זלמן סורוצקין as follows. משה had just been informed that כלל ישראל had served the עגל, and we all know that he went down the mountain and smashes the לוחות. If either way כלל ישראל were no longer worthy of the לוחות many מפרשים asks why didn’t משה smash them at the top of the mountain?
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Torah Portion -
KiSisa
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Written by yehuda katz
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"The wealthy shall not increase and the poor shall not decrease from 1/2 a shekel....................."(30:15)
"The wealthy shall not increase and the poor shall not decrease from 1/2 a shekel....................."(30:15)
Hashem is commanding Mosha to make a count of the males from the age of 20 and up. Each male would only be allowed to give 1/2 a shekel, and by so doing the males would be counted. A question, can be asked as follows: Why was a 1/2 shekel chosen? I would like to propose the following original answer, Bezrat Hashem. The wealthy of verse 30:15 is perhaps referring to a person who is rich in Torah and Mitzvoth, and the poor of the verse is referring to a person who is lacking in good deeds. When the Torah commands these individuals to give 1/2 a shekel, there is a lesson that the Torah wishes to teach these individuals that is pertinent to their particular circumstance. A person who has done alot of good might think that he has reached his potential and need not be concerned any further in trying to improve himself. Yet when the Torah commands him to give 1/2 a shekel, he soon
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KiSisa
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Written by d fine
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Half perfect (/are Jews that stingy that they can’t afford a whole shekel?!)
As the start of our sedra tells us, the (male) members of Bnei Yisrael were to give a half-shekel donation to the Mishkan. Why a half-shekel? The Alshich explains that the half is to remind us that we are not complete - we are still working towards completing ourselves. Alternatively, the half-shekel was for the Mishkan, which, in turn, atoned for the chet ha’egel. And since the women did not sin in the chet ha’egel, the shekel-per-household was reduced to half a shekel - for only the men needed atonement for having sinned. In fact, the Ba’al HaTurim (30:13) writes that ‘shekel’ has the same gematria as ‘nefesh’ (soul), for the half-shekel donation ‘came to atone for the soul.
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Torah Portion -
KiSisa
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Written by d fine
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Half perfect (/are Jews that stingy that they can’t afford a whole shekel?!)
As the start of our sedra tells us, the (male) members of Bnei Yisrael were to give a half-shekel donation to the Mishkan. Why a half-shekel? The Alshich explains that the half is to remind us that we are not complete - we are still working towards completing ourselves. Alternatively, the half-shekel was for the Mishkan, which, in turn, atoned for the chet ha’egel. And since the women did not sin in the chet ha’egel, the shekel-per-household was reduced to half a shekel - for only the men needed atonement for having sinned. In fact, the Ba’al HaTurim (30:13) writes that ‘shekel’ has the
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