Shekalim 22b — the Talmud in English

Rabbi Yehuda Anturya [

his place]

asked before

raised the question before]

Rabbi Yose:

what is different about

here,

regarding a quarter of silver of a convert,

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he said

that if he consecrated them,

they became consecrated.

And

And what is different about

here,

regarding the shekels for the contribution of the chamber, that

regarding shekels for the chamber contribution,

according to Rabbi Shimon,

that they did not become consecrated

even after the fact.

He said to him: There,

regarding shekels,

there is no consecration.

And therefore the consecration does not take effect, for at present sacrifices are not relevant at all.

And if you will say:

let him set aside

the shekels that he consecrated

until the Temple is rebuilt?

It may be said: at present he may not do so, because

perhaps the Temple will be built

not in this year, but only

in

the month of

the first,

which is the month of Nisan.

And

And

the chamber contribution will then be collected

the chamber contribution from the new [funds] at its proper time, on the first of Nisan, and they will again not bring sacrifices from what this one contributed, for it is already called an old contribution, and in the new year they do not offer from the old contribution.

And therefore, even if he consecrated his shekel, the consecration does not take effect.

This is not so

here,

regarding a quarter of silver of a convert: consecration takes effect upon it.

What concern can you have,

for when the Temple is rebuilt, his quarter-dinar is fit for a sacrifice; it is only that Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai abolished [the practice], so that one should not consecrate in this manner because of the mishap, and the reason of the mishap does not come and remove from it the status of consecration.

They said,

Rav Hamnuna and Rav Adda bar Ahava said in the name of

Rav:

the halakha is according to Rabbi Shimon

of the Mishna: one who consecrates first fruits in the present time, his consecration does not take effect, but one who consecrates shekels, his consecration takes effect.

We shall return to you, chapter “All the Spittle,” and the tractate Shekalim is concluded.