{"id":63959,"date":"2019-10-03T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63959"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:40:46","slug":"the-first-pushke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-first-pushke\/","title":{"rendered":"The First \u201cPushke\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[662,778,777],"acf":{"old_id":"63959","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"321","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Jewish legal precedent in the oversight of the collection and distribution of charitable contributions","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we noted apropos of the previous chapter, Joash was a righteous king whose actions were guided by his tutelage at the hands of Jehoiada the High Priest. The one caveat to this description is that he\u2014like nearly all the kings of Judah\u2014tolerated the continued worship on the high platforms (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bamot<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or shrines, see vs.3-4). One particular way in which his righteousness made itself manifest was in his concern for repairing the physical plant of the Temple. Our narrative (v.7 ff.) picks up in the 23<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> year of his 40-year reign, as king and high priest confronted the reality that the priests had not obeyed their instructions and had not commissioned the necessary repairs\u2014even though it seems that they had been collecting money for it all along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their solution to the problem set a precedent that continues to be followed by Jewish organizations and in Jewish homes to this every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the priest Jehoiada took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it at the right side of the altar as one entered the House of the LORD, and the priestly guards of the threshold deposited there all the money that was brought into the House of the LORD (10). Whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would come up and put the money accumulated in the House of the LORD into bags, and they would count it (11). Then they would deliver the money that was weighed out to the overseers of the work, who were in charge of the House of the LORD\u2026 (12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, we have the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pushke<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (from the Polish <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">puszka, meaning a tin can), a receptacle in which money (usually coins) intended for charitable purposes is collected and stored until there is a sufficient amount to meet a particular need. Another precedent, albeit one that has not necessarily withstood the test of time, was that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No check was kept on the men to whom the money was delivered to pay the workers; for they dealt honestly\u201d (17). 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