I'm leaving for America next week. My relatives in Chicago are wiring me money for the journey. For that amount of money, it's not worth changing my opinion of you. Steve Folberg is senior rabbi at Temple Beth Israel , Austin, Texas. I suppose if we put the coins in a shoe box with twigs on the top, we would create a sukah-tzedakah box.
All Hebrew words derive from a root, most often a three-letter combination.
We can see how a Hebrew word grows by observing how it spreads from its roots and branches out into its meanings. If you were an ancient Israelite shopping for cucumbers, you would bring your selection to the ancestor of all checkout counters and have your produce weighed. The scales must be tzedek , correct and of right balance. You would want the correct and proportional penalty in balance with the infraction. You know that a sukah is not a shoe box.