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an impaired dinar with him, which was not in circulation, and his victim did not want to accept it from him. Ḥanan the wicked then struck him another time, rendering himself liable to pay an additional fine of one-half a dinar, and gave him the full dinar as payment for both strikes.
§ The Mishnah teaches: The 30 shekels paid to the owner of a Canaanite slave who is killed by an ox, and the 50 shekels paid by a rapist and by a seducer, and the 100 shekels paid by the defamer are all paid in the shekel of the Sanctuary, which is calculated based on 100 Tyrian dinars. The Talmud
The Talmud explains: It was necessary to state the cases of the rapist and the defamer, as it might enter your mind to say: Since the term shekels is not written with regard to them, but only “money,” say that one pays merely dinars, and not shekels, which are worth 4 dinars. Therefore, the tanna
§ The Mishnah further teaches: And all monetary obligations are redeemed, i.e., paid, with coins or with items of the equivalent value of money, except for the half-shekels that are donated to the Temple each year, which must be given specifically as coins. The Talmud notes that it is taught in a ba
The Talmud elaborates: The halakha that the half-shekel payment dues to the Temple cannot be paid using items of equivalent value is as we learned in a Mishnah (Shekalim 2:1): When people who live far from Jerusalem wish to send to Jerusalem the shekels that have been levied from their community, th