[Avodah] Sheqel Kesef

[Zev Sero]

On 22/9/22 14:32, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> 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.)

It *seems* on its surface to be mid'oraisa, because it's based on the 
pasuk "vetzarta hakesef".   But you seem to be suggesting that that's an 
asmachta.

-- 
Zev Sero            “Were we directed from Washington when to sow
zev at sero.name       and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
		    –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.