[Avodah] Sheqel Kesef

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:56:04PM +0300, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote:
> If coins didn't exist when the Torah was given, and for many centuries
> thereafter, how do we explain the Halocho of Chilul Maaser Sheini?

> It needs a coin for Chilul. Even an Asimon (a blank coin) doesn't qualify.

Is that specific requirement miSinai? Or is it a din derabbanan about
how to be meqayeim the deOraisa? (Question isn't rhetorical.)

Think of all the dinim we have about when to repeat Shemoneh Esrei,
none of which can be deOraisa, even though many hold the obligation of
some sort of daily tefillah is deOraisa.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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