{"id":75640,"date":"2020-06-07T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=75640"},"modified":"2020-06-07T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T10:44:21","slug":"gerah-shekel-maneh-and-zuzim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/gerah-shekel-maneh-and-zuzim\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerah, Shekel, Maneh, and Zuzim"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"75640","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"497","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Not your father\u2019s goat...\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter is linked to its predecessor both thematically and literarily. On the one hand, it continues with the subject of the Temple and the priests, and, on the other hand, it repeats the key words \u201cportion\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">achuzah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and \u201cgift\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">terumah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; see 44:28,31 and 45:1,4,6,7.) Since the role of the prince (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nasi<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) will be greatly expanded in the future Temple (16-17), Ezekiel described how his property holdings (the \u201cportion\u201d, 7) and share of the Temple offerings (the \u201cgift\u201d 13-15) would be similarly enlarged in order to meet those increased responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The context in which these changes would occur is the future reapportionment of the land, whose details continue in Chapter 48. It would be divided\u2014as it was under Joshua\u2014into portions for each tribe, with two significant differences: (1) Rather than duplicating their original portions of varying sizes, all the new portions would be identical&#8211;\u201can area 25,000 [cubits] long and 10,000 wide\u201d (45:1) and (2) It would be divided into 13 portions rather than 12, the extra portion to be designated for the priests, Levites, and the prince.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, Ezekiel moved to caution the princes to \u201cmake an end of lawlessness and rapine, and do what is right and just,\u201d and, specifically, \u201cput a stop to your evictions of My people\u201d (9). The royalty was in the habit of imposing heavy taxes on the people and in the (likely?) event that they could not pay, they would evict them from their ancestral lands. They were also enjoined to maintain true weights, measures (10-11), and coinage. Apropos of the coinage, Ezekiel stipulated: \u201cThe shekel shall weigh 20 gerahs. 20 shekels, 25 shekels [and] 10 plus 5 shekels [totaling 60 shekels] shall count with you as a mina\u201d (12). (The value of the shekel at 20 gerahs was established by the Torah (Exodus 30:13) and has been estimated by modern scholars to be 9.6 grams of silver.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radak, however, spotted a contradiction. Since there were 4 zuzim to a shekel, 60 shekels would translate into 240 zuzim, yet a minah (or: maneh), according to the Talmud, equals only 100 zuzim. His resolution was that Ezekiel was introducing a new unit of currency, \u201cthe sacred maneh\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">maneh shel kodesh<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which was twice the value of the \u201cordinary maneh\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shel chol<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). That raised its value to 200 zuzim; the remaining 40 represent an additional 1\/6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that was tacked on to the sacred maneh as an act of piety. (If you are wondering how 40 is 1\/6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of 200, it is 1\/6 of the total of 240 and, as such, is called \u201can outer sixth\u201d [<em>sh\u2019tut mil\u2019bar<\/em>].)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":75641,"id":75641,"title":"ez45-two zuz2","filename":"ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/gerah-shekel-maneh-and-zuzim\/ez45-two-zuz2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez45-two-zuz2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75640,"date":"2020-06-07 10:42:17","modified":"2022-07-31 05:41:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":767,"height":430,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-300x168.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":168,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","medium_large-width":767,"medium_large-height":430,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","large-width":767,"large-height":430,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","1536x1536-width":767,"1536x1536-height":430,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","2048x2048-width":767,"2048x2048-height":430,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","post_full_size-width":767,"post_full_size-height":430,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-749x420.jpg","home_baner-width":749,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Gerah, Shekel, Maneh, and Zuzim","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Not your father\u2019s goat...","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":75641,"id":75641,"title":"ez45-two zuz2","filename":"ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/gerah-shekel-maneh-and-zuzim\/ez45-two-zuz2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez45-two-zuz2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75640,"date":"2020-06-07 10:42:17","modified":"2022-07-31 05:41:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":767,"height":430,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-300x168.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":168,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","medium_large-width":767,"medium_large-height":430,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","large-width":767,"large-height":430,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","1536x1536-width":767,"1536x1536-height":430,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","2048x2048-width":767,"2048x2048-height":430,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2.jpg","post_full_size-width":767,"post_full_size-height":430,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez45-two-zuz2-749x420.jpg","home_baner-width":749,"home_baner-height":420}},"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":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75640"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75642,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75640\/revisions\/75642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}