(11) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: (12) When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the LORD a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. (13) This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay: a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight—twenty gerahs to the shekel—a half-shekel as an offering to the LORD. (14) Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the LORD’s offering: (15) the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the LORD’s offering as expiation for your persons. (16) You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the LORD, as expiation for your persons.

Rav Yehuda, son of Rav Shmuel bar Sheilat, said in the name of Rav: ... when the month of Adar begins, one increases rejoicing. Rav Pappa said: Therefore, in the case of a Jew who has litigation with a gentile, let him avoid him in the month of Av, when the Jews’ fortune is bad, and he should make himself available in Adar, when his fortune is good.

On Parshat Shekalim (the commandment to the Israelites to give yearly charity to the temple) Moshe said before the Holy one, Lord of the world, once I die I wouldn't be remembered? The Holy One responded, I promise you, just like now (while you are alive) you are standing before them and teaching them Parshat Shekalim, and you are raising their heads (raising their spirits), so will it be each and every year when they will read it for me, you will be there at that time, and raise their heads.

(Free translation by Abby Stein)

You should know that one of the big beneficial rules the prophets instructed the Jews, is the concept of reading from the Torah... that is because the Torah is the accumulation of what was given to us from the Blessed One, so that we should study it, and that we should receive its light. And in order to receive this light steadily, they instructed us to the study it communally on a steady basis. And through the this steady readings, this holy light of inspiration stays with us forever.