More Discussions for this daf
1. Learning Yerushalmi 2. Mashmi'in vs. Machrizin 3. Why Mishnah?
4. Why Mishnah? 5. Sending Machatzis ha'Shekel to Yerushalayim 6. Kil'ayim Police
7. Learning Yerushalmi 8. Shekalim in English 9. Daf Yomi by phone
10. Why is Shekalim in Moed? 11. The Division of Perakim in the Yerushalmi 12. Yerushalmi Shekalim
13. Mikva'os ha'Mayim 14. Mashmi'in al Shekalim and Kelayim
DAF DISCUSSIONS - SHEKALIM 2

Alex Lebovits asked:

The Gem brings a posuk why the Rabanan proclaimed for Shekalim vs other mitzvohs which they don't proclaim for when their times come up. What is the reason why they proclaimed for k'layim?

To complicate matters even a little more:- The Bach brings a posuk from Nechemia 8:15 that The RAbanan did proclaim to get things ready for Succos.

Thank you for taking the time to answer.

Thank you

Alex Lebovits, Toronto, Canada

The Kollel replies:

Kilayim is not similar to Shekalim, Pesach and Chagigah because it

is not a public Mitzvah with a fixed time but rather a private duty which varies according to when every individual's produce has grown enough to be forbidden because of Kilayim. Therefore people are wont to be lazy in uprooting the Kilayim and consequently, it logically follows that an announcement is required about this even though there is no source for this from a verse.

HAGO'OS HaBACH #4 is certainly not suggesting that Beis Din must proclaim every year that one should build a Succah, since this is a public Mitzvah with a fixed time which therefore does not usually require announcement as we learnt above. Rather BACH asserts that the Gemara cites the verse in Nechemia because the word "Yashmiu" is used there, which refers to announcement and this proves that the word "Mashmi'in" used by the Mishnah also means announcement. The reason that proclamation was necessary in the time of Nechemia was because they had only then just rediscovered the Sefer Torah which taught them that one dwells in a Succah in the seventh month. without the proclamation the people would have forgotten about the Mitzvah. However in subsequent years it was not necessary to proclaim about Succos.

BEHATZLOCHO RABAH,

D Bloom

Chaim Mendelson comments:

On Shabbos Parshas Shekalim, I was walking with a friend, and he mentioned that Rav Moshe Shapiro Shlita had mentioned this question in a talk several years ago. My friend vaguely recalled the theme of his talk, that Shekalim is directly related the power of shmia, hearing.

Perhaps one of the subscribers to this list remembers this talk/or has access to notes of this talk.

Tizku Lemitzvos.

Chaim Mendelson