Welcome to the Three Hundred Eighty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Joshua Cahan looks at Masechet Shekalim Daf 2.
An introduction to the annual half-shekel tax. The tax was announced on 1 Adar and collected throughout the month so that it could be used to provide the Temple’s public offerings beginning in Nisan.
Rabbi Joshua Cahan received his Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He teaches rabbinics at the Schechter High School of Westchester. Previously he was the founder and director of the Northwoods Kollel Talmud program at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin and Director of the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Beit Midrash study center. In 2009 Rabbi Cahan published Yedid Nefesh, a traditional, egalitarian bencher (book of sabbath songs & blessings) with commentary.
The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.
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