Topics:Half-shekel or shekel?; paying the full shekel in time of Moshiach; reading Parshas Shekalim before Parshas Zachor; turning the noun shekel into a verb – “to shekel someone;” the full shekel of Avraham Avinu; shekel as symbol of faith vs Amalek as symbol of lack of faith; shekel = a measurement: to weigh the good and bad in our lives.