[Avodah] Machatzis Hashekel in the Mishkan / Mikdash

[Zev Sero]

On 06/03/18 14:36, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 12:24:08PM -0500, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
> : Even more balebatish: Coins hadn't yet been invented. Therefore
> : Moshe had never seen one.  *If* there is a requirement that the ten
> : gerah of silver be minted into a coin before being given to the
> : mishkan...
> 
> Doesn't this depend on whether this medrash lives in the same timeline
> in which Avraham coined medalions? (Matbia shel Avrahm Avinu: "zaqein
> uzqeinah mitzad echad, ubachur uvsulah, mitzad acheir." - BQ 97b)

One *could* accept that medrash and suppose that nobody copied Avraham's 
invention, so Moshe was unfamiliar with it.  Perhaps even that Avraham 
thought of the concept so many centuries ahead of everyone else because 
he learned it from the Torah.


-- 
Zev Sero            A prosperous and healthy 2018 to all
zev at sero.name       Seek Jerusalem's peace; may all who love you prosper