What is the definition of 'Erech'?
Rashi: It is a fixed value 1 that the Torah gives to a person based on his age and gender.
Rashi: Which has no connection with the person's market value.
What does "ha'Zachar" incorporate?
Erchin, 4b: It incorporates Zachar Vadai only - but precludes a Tumtum and an Androginos. 1
Erchin (Ibd.): And the Torah writes "ve'Im Nekeivah" - in Pasuk 4, to preclude them even from the lesser Erech of a Nekeivah.
Are a twenty-year old reckoned in the higher age- bracket (between twenty and sixty) or the lower age- bracket - between five and twenty - and the same question applies to a five-year old - in Pasuk 5?
Erchin, 18a: The question does not of course apply to a sixty-year old, who is reckoned in the lower age bracket - since the Torah specifically writes in Pasuk 7 "ve'Im me'Ben Shishim Shanah va'Ma'alah ... ", and we learn a ben Esrim and a ben Chameish from a ben Shishim via a Gezeirah Shavah that they too, are reckoned in the lower age- bracket. 1
Erchin, Ibid.: Even though as opposed to a ben Shishim (which is Lehachmir), they are Lehakeil ? See Torah Temimah, note 23.
Why does the Torah repeat the words "Vehayah Erk'cha"?
