Tuesday, September 18, 2018

money - Why redeem hekdesh?


Kind of related to What is my relationship to an object once I have pledged it as hekdesh?


Why would somebody pledge something to hekdesh and then redeem it when he could just donate money directly? Is there some effect on the object that is pledged that causes someone to do this?




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