וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתָּ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אִם־יֵ֣שׁ אֶֽת־נַפְשְׁכֶ֗ם לִקְבֹּ֤ר אֶת־מֵתִי֙ מִלְּפָנַ֔י שְׁמָע֕וּנִי וּפִגְעוּ־לִ֖י בְּעֶפְר֥וֹן בֶּן־צֹֽחַר׃
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Jerusalem Talmud Kiddushin
Rebbi Yasa in the name of Rebbi Mana337R. Mana I.; Rebbi Tanḥum, Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Real estate cannot be bought for less than a peruṭah. What is the reason? “Fields will be bought by money338Anything less than the smallest coin is not money..” This disagrees with what Rebbi Ḥanina said339Babli Bekhorot 50a. There, the statement of R. Jehudah bar Pazi is ascribed to R. Ḥanina. In Gen.rabba58(9), the statement of R. Jehudah bar Pazi is in the name of R. Yudan.: Any šeqalim mentioned in the Torah are tetradrachmas122Mishnah ‘Arakhin 7:1. If somebody dedicates his field to the Temple, Scripture prescribes that he redeem it proportional to the numbers of years to the next Jubilee. The full rate, for the entire 49 yars of a Jubilee cycle, is 50 šeqel for a field on which a ḥomer (or kur, 30 se’ah) of barley can be sown (75’000 square cubits). Talmudic theory identifies the biblical šeqel with the Roman tetradrachma, which is slightly more than the standard šeqel documented from First Kingdom times, 11.4 g. Since in the vernacular the zūz, the Babylonian half-šeqel, was identified with the Roman denarius, the “sheqel” was identified as two denar. This gave rise to the theory that the biblical “holy šeqel”, which simply was “the king’s weight” and still the Tyrian šeqel in Roman times, was twice the profane šeqel. The rate to be paid for the standard field per year therefore was 50/49 = 1 1/49 tetradrachma. The rate stated in the Mishnah is 1 1/48 tetradrachma. The small difference, 1/48 - 1/49 is qolbon (κόλλυβος, Latin collybus,collubus, “exchange of coins; rate of exchange”), the small coin paid as agio to the money-changer to convert the sum into actual coin. The Mishnah shows that a dupondius was 1/48 of a tetradrachma or half an obolus., in the Prophets pounds340A Roman libra, Greek λίτρα, of 96 denarii or 24 tetradrachmas., and in the Hagiographs centenarii341A noun, meaning “100 pieces” formed in vulgar Latin from the classical adjective centenarius, “consisting of a hundred”, in this case 100 librae. The same meaning, 100 lb., is found in Middle High German zëntenaere,zëntner.. Rebbi Jehudah bar Pazi said, except for the šeqalim paid to Ephron342Paid by Abraham for the Makhpela cave, Gen. 23:9., which were centenarii. What is the reason? “For full money he shall give it to me.” There is no comparison since here it is written “money” but there “šeqalim”. They objected, is there not the rapist343Deut. 23:29; the extra fine the rapist of a virgin pays is “50 silver pieces”; cf. Ketubot 3:1, Note 1., for whom “money” is written and you say “šeqalim”?