Talmud
In honor of Rabbi Shalom
The Mishnah in the Book of Kiddushin brings up a dispute between the Jewish and Jewish communities over how much money is offered to the Jewish community as a penny and to the Jewish community as a dinar.
Research [Avanz, Mark 27, Section 1] Does the word money in the mishnah specifically mean a penny/dinar, and this is the standard for all times? And so, according to the Rambam, we have a penny, meaning half a barley grain of money, and this is the standard for all times, or do we have a penny, meaning half a barley grain of money, and this is the standard for all times? Or do we have a penny, meaning the remaining money that comes out, and at all times its penny was the lowest currency?
And the aforementioned Avanz explained that the Ritva’s opinion is that the money that comes out is
And the Z”l [the Ritva] said, “And in the judgment, it is not for the house of Hillel to kill me with a penny.”
In the book of silver, it is written and explained that it belongs to the house of Hillel, and they are really silver.
But money, that is, worth a penny, and since it is a penny itself, it is
Of copper, we would be worth a penny itself, and it is not money but a dime.
The scholars of Beit Shammai say that the dinar is not a sacrificial offering, in any case, since they are experts in money.
We have come to the house of Hillel with a penny and a penny’s worth, but you are not worthy of the golden chapter, my dear.
“Five pennies are not a penny, but the woman is sanctified with the equivalent of a penny.”
Apparently, from the words of the Ritva, there is a polar division between wealth and money, and the decision was made that it was wealth.
Although the prophet Ibn HaEzer interpreted the Ritva as meaning that he wrote mammon, not silver, meaning not just silver metal, but mammon, a silver half-barley coin. This is puzzling, since the words of the Ritva do not indicate anything about a half-barley coin.
This time I tried to be short.
According to the Chazo, the Ritva compares two options: a penny or the value of a silver half-barley coin (this was probably the smallest silver coin). Apparently, if it is not a real penny (made of copper), this is the remaining default.
This is what the commentators explained in Bitzah 7 regarding the K'Grugerat of Babylon. There too, no mention is made of K'Grugerat, but rather, any Ya'cha that is not K'Zayt that follows in line is K'Grugerat.
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