Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Pekudei/0/he

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Shabbat Table Topics – Parashat Pekudei

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Identical Tallies

שמות ל"ח:כ"ה speaks of the half shekel donations contributed for the construction of the Tabernacle, and through which the nation was counted. Surprisingly, the head count reached is identical to the tally of the census in במדבר א':מ"ו which took place only in the second year in the Wilderness.

  • How can this be?  Were there no deaths or births in the interim?  Moreover, considering that only a few months separated the two events, why were two censuses necessary at all?

עוד...

לעוד נושאים בפרשה, ראו: רשימת נושאים – פרשת פקודי.