The Half-Shekel Antidote to Disunity
This Shabbos opens the series of four parshios leading up to Klal Yisrael becoming Hashem’s chosen people at Yetzias Mitzrayim. Each parasha has a fundamental principle moving us towards that goal. We open with Parshas Shekalim where we read the pesukim commanding Moshe to count the Jewish people. It was done by each person contributing […]
Shekalim: Our Eternal Hand and Name
Yeshayahu Chapter 56, which we read as the Haftarah on fast days, presents two characters who approach Hashem with a claim of belonging. One is the convert, concerned about his past: having been born into a foreign nation, can he fully belong to the Jewish people? The second is one unable to have children, whose […]
