Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

This idea that David Hamelech said to Shaul that Hashem got you to sin by creating the yetzer hara and therefore counting through machtzis hashekel unites the Jews, as we need two half shekolim to make one, and it fights the yetzer hara as we said above that no sin is recognized when we are in unity. David Hamelech miscalculated figuring that the Machtzis Hashekel is a temporary kapara on the sin of the Eigel and just required for the building of the mishkan but it is required whenever we count the Jews. Also, the machtzis hashekel was even more required as the count was made with no purpose, so the mashchis took over without seeing good or bad. As we mentioned above from the Rabbenu Bechaye when we count without machtzis hashekel we break up the unity and the bad get separated from the good.