Parsha Illuminated - Ki Sisa/Purim: How the Half-Shekels Overcame Haman

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Paras Kisa and uh we're also knocking on the door of perm perm will actually come before Kisa but uh fortunately there is a very clear tie in before between uh Kisa and perm which will make it easy to talk about both the par and PM in one shot so at the beginning of the we have the Commandment from Hashem to we have the Commandment from Hashem to Moshe that when you count the Jewish people this is the way that you have to count them so in Chapter 30 verse 11 by said to Moshe saying when you raise up here to count when you take the sum of the children of Israel according to their numbers k each man should give a k an atonement for his soul when give a k an atonement for his soul when you count them below and there will not be a plague among them when they are counted there's a way that they're to be counted that they're will not be a plague if you count them in a different way then there might be a plague and uh this is referring to that if you count them through them giving an object in this case a half shekel as we'll see then that avoids plague if you count them themselves then that could bring about a plague this was the error that about a plague this was the error that King David made that uh he counted the people directly and it brought about a plague in his time then it tells us how to do it verse 13 this they shall give everyone goes through the counting half a according to the holy she so what's a she right so it's the she that they made at that time which was 20 gas that was some weight um for

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2. 4:49he says in chapter three of the Book of Esther and ham said to King aash…
3. 10:01we should not fall to Ham's plan and our question that we are going to attempt…
4. 15:12in fact they would begin or really continue the building of the second temple and bring…
5. 20:24horse around town um and give great honor to morai and uh that was a very…
6. 25:33the possessions of H as much as he would trying even if even though said you…
7. 30:56us so the explains that as a nation as a people we are really like one…
8. 36:05there if we allow it if we allow for the to be amongst us then there's…
9. 41:16purpose of creation of everything is to bring honor to God so then we won't look…
10. 46:24themselves when you count them according to their count according to their numbers and the says…

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