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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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