Parshas Ki Sisah (5771)

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Parshas Ki Sisah (5771)

by Mordechai Dolinsky

The purpose of counting Klal Yisroel through the giving of the coins was to avoid the ‘ayin harah’; the number was the essence, so how could this be avoided by the system of counting through coins? One way we can understand this is that the fact that the coins were a mitzvah and even moreso, a kapara. In greater depth this can be understood that the ayin harah was seeing the person and his attributes which was avoided by counting through an inanimate object.

Have a wonderful Shabbos.