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This ideal and perspective on wealth is alluded to in the etymological connection between the Hebrew words ashir, meaning wealthy, and eser, meaning ten. Built into the Jewish concept of wealth is the mitzvah of maaser, setting aside ten percent of our income for charity.
- Mendel Kalmenson
The Hebrew Bible mentions many different monetary denominations, and archaeologists frequently find coins and weights at dig sites. For centuries, ancient peoples exchanged goods by bartering or by weighing out precious metals or jewels as payment for purchases.
- Solomon to The Captivity: The First Temple Period
- Zerubbabel to The First Revolt: The Second Temple Period
- The First Jewish Revolt
- The Second Jewish Revolt
God inaugurated for ancient Israel its first stewardship program for a church ministry. To provide the considerable and consistent funds needed for a tabernacle or a temple, from Moses onward, each 20-year-old or older male, rich or poor, had to pay half a shekel as "an offering unto the Lord" at the time of the census (Ex. 30:11-16). The shekel th...
The Solomonic (or first) Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. After the Persians had conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., Darius I Hystaspes (522-486 B.C.) introduced a revolutionary system of economic exchange throughout the Persian Empire, Pales tine included. This new system of coinage was copied from the recently conquered Lydians of A...
In A.D. 66 the Jews revolted against the yoke of Rome. During this revolt they melted down all the Tyrian shekels in the Temple coffers and made new all-Jewish coins. These were the firstJewish coins ever made in silver (Figure 5). These coins carried Hebrew inscriptions dated according to the year of the revolt, "year one" being A.D. 66 and so on....
But oddly enough, the story of Temple coins doesn't end here. It was in A.D. 132, some sixty years after the destruction of the Temple, that the Jews first minted shekels picturing the Temple. This happened when Jews again revolted against Rome, this time under the leadership of Simon bar Kochba. During this second revolt Roman tetradrachms from An...
Apr 28, 2011 · Aliyah or relocating to Israel, use this list of must-know Hebrew banking terms, with English and transliterations מילון מושגים בבנקאות.
Apr 13, 2023 · In colloquial Hebrew, you might also come across the term “כְּסָף מְזוּנָה” (kesef mezuna), which roughly translates to “spending money.” This phrase relates more to the actual cash you use for day-to-day expenses or leisure activities. Here’s an example:
Three terms for "money-changer" are found in the New Testament: (a) kermatistēs (John 2:14), (b) kollybistēs (Matt. 21:12), and (c) trapezitēs (literally, shulḥani; Matt. 25:27, et al.) It seems probable that these three terms correspond to the three functions of the shulḥani outlined above.
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In some cases local monetary terms are translated literally into Hebrew, thus florins (peraḥim); gulden (zehuvim); albi or whitten (levanim); doblas (kefulot). Coins of pure silver are variously called tabor, naki, ẓaruf, mezukkak, or zakuk. Often a local term is equated with a talmudic one, at times with confusing results.
