Enclosed please find the nine pairs of slacks. Money has a way of bringing out the worst in people. The loss of trust is, perhaps, the most damaging for no one is immune from suspicion. Friendships are undermined, families are split up, often over an assumption or presumption of mismanagement. We often trust a third party with our families, our children, our lives, but not our money.
Most people dread an audit.
They hope and pray it will not be they who are called. Yet Moses, who is in charge, demands an audit of all the money collected for the tabernacle. He wants it to be known how much was raised, how was it spent. Surely people trusted him. G-d trusted him.