Les Proverbes 28:11 Cabale : Pardes Rimmonim

And it is necessary to examine this citation minutely. Firstly his saying ‘What is a half-shekel? It is similar to a half-[hin] etc.’. Explanation ‘a half-hin’ is Tif’eret [the Wav] which is ‘exactly placed between two He’s.’ Truly with ‘a half-shekel’ it does not fit to explain thus ‘exactly placed between’, as we do not know between what [the half-shekel is placed]. Secondly his saying ‘the stone to weigh with, it is a Yud etc.’. See, according to the meaning [it follows] that Yud Wav Daleth (יוד) is twenty. And how does he say that one should not subtract from nor add to the ten, is it not that יוד [with value twenty], with its half being ten, and see: ten has been added to ten and that makes twenty! And according to his explanation one should not add to the ten [Sefirot] any Sefirah, not even Tif’eret nor Tsaddik [= Yesod], but he mentioned these which are "wealthy and poor" [Proverbs 28:11], and the more so [concerning] all the others. Thirdly his saying ‘the stone to weigh with, it is a Yud’, and how do they weigh with this stone, whereas it is twenty gerah and the weight needs to be ten, which is only a half-shekel. And if we say that his intention is to say as if it were to weigh with this stone and it is a complete stone, if this is so it is a lengthy expression, and he could have said ‘the stone to weigh with, it is a Yud Wav Daleth, and it is twenty gerah’. Why does he say ‘the stone to weigh with, it is a Yud, twenty gerah [is] a shekel, it is Yud Wav Daleth’, which is repetition and lengthening. Fourthly his saying ‘and a half-shekel, it is ten’, as there appears to be no link with it [what is said previously in the citation].