<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I saw the following beautiful vort with no attribution:<div><br></div><div>"<i>How many Children of Israel were there in the desert? Moshe did not quite </i></div><div><div>know. <i>They needed to be numbered. Therefore, when each one gave the </i></div><div><i>same silver half shekel, these gifts were counted and thus the number was</i></div><div><i>known. The Torah means to say that we are counted by <b>what we give</b>, NOT</i></div><div><i>by <b>what we take</b>." </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">This reminds me of what one rabbi wrote regarding what happens when we</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">die. He wrote that </span>The Almighty is not going to ask to see your material worth;</i></div><div><i>but He IS going to ask for your receipts.</i></div></div></body></html>