On this page we present various teachings about the Holy Half-Shekel from many different sources.

• Responsum of HaRav Yisrael Ariel

• Unaccredited Teaching

• The Pentateuch and Haftorahs by Dr J. H. Hertz

• On the Torah and Service from Beit Orot (House of Lights) by HaRav Aharon Karliner

• Various Teachings from Rebbe Shlomo Carlebach

• The Half-Shekel Offering in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature by J. Liver, Harvard Theological Review

• Temple Dues and Currency in Ancient Palestine in the Light of Recent Discovered Coin-Hoards by Leo Kadman, Israel Numismatic Bulletin

• One Hundred Ninety Years of Tyrian Shekels by Yakov Meshorer, Numismatics, Art History, Archaeology

• Kiddushin 54a, Tosafot "Mo'alin"

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