#shekels

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Pale as the morning feet? Girl that's disgusting.

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ISRAEL / Israeli new shekels designs.

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Banded agate duck-shaped weights, weighing between 1 and 2.5 Babylonian shekels. Late Babylonian, 750BC-550BC

(via British Museum)

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Pekudai: Forgotten Souls

At the beginning of the Torah portion of Pekudai, Moses gives a detailed accounting of the money donated to the Tabernacle. Every Jew gave half a shekel (a particular coin of money). Since there were 603,550 people, that makes 301,775 shekels. Every 3000 shekels is a bar of silver. As such, there were one hundred full bars. “And the one hundred bars of silver were for casting the sockets of the Sanctuary and the sockets of the veil, one hundred sockets for one hundred bars, a bar for a socket.” What was done with the rest of the silver? “And the one thousand seven hundred and the five and seventy he made into hooks for the pillars and overlaid their heads and made fillets for them.”

Our Sages say that Moses initially forgot what had been done with the 1775 remaining shekels, until God illuminated his eyes and he saw that they had been used for the hooks for the pillars. What is the significance of this?

There are 600,000 inclusive souls in the Nation of Israel. (These souls divide into additional individuals). Every soul has its own letter in the Torah, as alluded to in the name ישראל (Israel), which is an acronym for: יש ששים ריבוא אותיות לתורה(There are six hundred thousand letters in the Torah). All the souls are engraved on the heart of Moses, the giver of the Torah. His soul includes all the souls of Israel.

There are, however, souls that are ‘remainders’. These fallen souls do not have a letter in the Torah! They are the 3550 that remain after the 600,000 in the counting of the congregation. That is why Moses does not ‘see’ them at the beginning. He doesn’t remember what was done with their silver – it seems as though they have no portion in the Nation of Israel!

It is specifically in these forgotten souls, however, that the secret of the redemption is concealed. A person who apparently has no letter in the Torah, no manifest connection to the Torah and has practically been lost – can turn into the greatest returnee to God. Generally, our connection to God is channeled through the Torah, as is written in the Zohar, “Israel is intertwined with the Torah and the Torah is intertwined with the Holy One, Blessed Be He.”

But there is another, concealed connection – a direct connection between Israel and God. It is specifically those lost souls, as it were, that have no detectable connection to the Torah, which can reveal the direct connection to God. These souls are the “hooks of the pillars,” the connecting hooks (vav hachibur, the letter vav that in Hebrew grammar denotes connection) that connect Israel to God and the Jews to each other. They are also the vav hahipuch, the transformative letter vav, which in Hebrew grammar denotes turnabout – the souls of those who return to God out of love, transforming all the sins into merits, thus bringing the redemption.

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NC leader: 'Agnostic Jew' made Black Panther to reach 'Schvartze pockets', by Ron Kampeas

Among Robinson’s offenses was an attack in 2018 on the creators of the Black Panther character, after a movie about the Marvel Comics superhero came out.

“It is absolutely AMAZING to me that people who know so little about their true history and REFUSE to acknowledge the pure sorry state of their current condition can get so excited about a fictional ‘hero’ created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxist,” said Robinson, who is African American, in a Facebook post.

“How can this trash, that was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets, invoke any pride?” he added, a Yiddish pejorative for African Americans. “Shekels,” the name of the Israeli currency, is often used in anti-Semitic literature.

Black Panther was created in the 1960s by two Jewish comic book creators, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The 2018 film was directed by Ryan Coogler, a Black filmmaker who is involved in social justice causes.In October, the Raleigh News & Observer found a conversation that Robinson had in 2019 with a fringe religious leader named Sean Moon. In the interview, Moon invokes antisemitic tropes about the Rothschild family, and Robinson says “That’s exactly right.”

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'I was wrong to make use of the language I used': AUPE president apologizes | The Chronicle Herald

The president of Alberta’s largest union apologized on Friday afternoon after remarks he made with anti-Semitic undertones were roundly criticized by B’nai Brith Canada.

On Thursday, AUPE president Guy Smith criticized Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro in an interview with CBC, in which he spoke about a $2-an-hour increase in wages for health-care aides in the province.

“When Minister Shandro made the announcement, he sort of walked into the town square, and threw a few shekels on the ground to see who would go scrambling for it, and then he just walked away,” Smith said.

The quote was shared on social media by the AUPE and was brought to the attention of B’nai Brith Canada, which said Smith used an “age-old anti-Semitic stereotype” and called for the AUPE to remove the post from its social media channels and issue an immediate apology.