1)

What is the definition of 'Erech'?

1.

Rashi: It is a fixed value 1 that the Torah gives to a person based on his age and gender.

1

Rashi: Which has no connection with the person's market value.

2)

What does "ha'Zachar" incorporate?

1.

Erchin, 4b: It incorporates Zachar Vadai only - but precludes a Tumtum and an Androginos. 1

1

Erchin (Ibd.): And the Torah writes "ve'Im Nekeivah" - in Pasuk 4, to preclude them even from the lesser Erech of a Nekeivah.

3)

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?

1.

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

1

Erchin : Even though a ben Shishim (in Pasuk 7) is le?Chumra, and a ben Esrim and a ben Chameish Shanim, le?Kula ? See Torah Temimah, note 23.

4)

?Vehayah Erk?cha ha?Zachar mi?Ben Esrim Shanah u?Lema?alah?. One would have expected the Torah to list the Erchin progressively ? starting with a baby of one month ? five years ? twenty and sixty. Why does the Torah begin with a man of twenty?

1.

Ramban 1 and R. Bachye: a. Because in Pasuk 2, the Parshah began with ?Ish ki Yafli?, and a baby of one month five- year old are Ketanim who do not fall under the category of ?Ish?, and b. Because baby of one month and a five-year old an be Ne?erach bit not Ma?arich. 2

1

See R. Chavel?s footnotes.

2

Ramban and R. Bachye: And having begun with a man of twenty, it had to then discuss a boy of five until twenty.

5)

Why does the Torah repeat the words "Vehayah Erk'cha"?

1.

Erchin, 4b: To teach us tat the current preclusiosn of Tumtum and an Androginos does not apply to Damim (S'tam Nedarim - Torah Temimah), and that they are therefore included in the Din of Damim. 1

1

See Torah Temimah, citing Erchin, Ibid.

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