[Avodah] money and halakhah

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:28:19PM -0400, Yitzhak Grossman wrote:
: All citations are from my notes; I have not verified most of them.

The AhS, for example, had to be speaking of metal-backed currency, not
fiat currency. I don't know everyone you quote, but we could eliminate
the majority of the list.

A shetar which says "the owner has a sheqel of silver sitting in Fort
Knox" is more like giving the actual sheqel of silver (to speak of kesef
in the literal sense, but gold would be no different) than giving a
piece of paper that had value because people decided you can exchange
it for value.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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