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In speaking of the funds collected to establish the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) in the wilderness, the Torah records \u201cThese are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses\u2019 bidding\u2014the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen (Exodus 38:21).\u201d \u00a0Why didn\u2019t the Torah just say that these were the records Moses drew up? Why all that extra verbiage about the Levites and about Ithamar?<\/span><\/p>\n

The rabbis of antiquity were both careful readers of the Torah and skilled communal leaders. \u00a0It was a rabbinic enactment in Mishnah Shekalim that \u201cone must not appoint less than two people with control over the finances of a city or a community.\u201d \u00a0The reason for that law was that if only one person was in charge of the finances, he would be tempted to misuse the funds, to use them for personal gain, or he would be an easy target for bribery. \u00a0But a second overseer would be able to keep watch over the first, and vice-versa.<\/span><\/p>\n

If there must be two appointed in charge of any funds, asks <\/span>Midrash Sh\u2019mot Rabbah<\/span><\/i>, then what of Moses being in charge of the funds for the Mishkan? \u00a0Is it possible that Moses would violate halakhah (Jewish law)? \u201cThe answer is that though Moses was the sole treasurer, yet he called others to audit the accounts with him\u2026 namely, through Moses but \u2018under the direction of Ithamar.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If even as righteous a leader as Moses, a man who spoke with God face to face, needed an established system of supervision and shared responsibility, then how much the more so do the leaders of our age, people who are fallible and imperfect like the rest of us. Moses, by example, set the standard not only in the realms of honesty, piety, and a passion for justice, but also gave us an invaluable lesson in how to avoid temptation. <\/span><\/p>\n

None of us can afford to fly solo. \u00a0When we attempt to go it alone, whatever the field or area, we leave a blind spot where our own faults, ignorance, or biases lurk. We make ourselves and those dependent on us victims of our own shortcomings. But when we join in communion with a larger group, when we link our efforts, our dreams, and our visions with our friends and our fellow Jews, then the strength of one neutralize the weaknesses of the other, then the temptations of each individual are held in check by the knowledge of certain exposure and embarrassment.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"One Is A Corruptible Number","main_caption":"If even as righteous a leader as Moses needed an established system of shared responsibility, then how much the more so do the leaders of our age!","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105450,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43734\/revisions\/105450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}