<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Zev Sero <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Fiat money, like life insruance is an astraction.<br>
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No more than silver-as-money was an abstraction in Chazal's time and<br>
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Zev Sero </font></blockquote></div><br><br>This is nonsense to me. Can you make a menorah out of $50.00 bills? You Can make a <br>menorah out of 50 dollars of silver.<br><br>Paper money is merely money TO YOU because you grew up with it. If it wer new to you as it was to the fisrt generattion you would be shreing Gevaltabout unprecednt halachic innovations.<br>
<br>At any rate see today's Kitzur Yomi re: pidon habein [145] and that silver is kosher but banknotes are not. Today we do NOT have US governmnt money. We had Federal Reserve Banknotes. Banknotes are fiat money but not Intrinsic money. The distinction is signifcant in many halachic issues. Can you gie machaztis hadhshekel with fiat paper moneyh?<br>
<br>And if in Chazal's times silver was an abstraction, how does the requirement for Kolbon work?! The whole point is that any coin might be missing some minor amount of silver [probably from usage]. If the money is an abstraction a Kolbon is sillly. What's the point? So we see in Halcha that Haazl deemd silvber coins NOT as fiat money for the purpose of Sheklaim but a wieghted monetary instrument with sintrisic value. [money=monetary, etc.]<br>
<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>