Giving Until it Hurts
Tzedaka - Lesson 7
Giving Until it Hurts: Tzedaka - Lesson 7
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good one very informative and helpful thankyou
GIVE TILL IT HURTS
a way of doing pentence huh. wow, that's easy it's possible to be a real jerk, and give a
lot of money to make things right? doens't sound right to me.
do people on a very fixed income count:? i know by personal experience i did not.
seems nobdy Jewish wants to have anything to do with poor people. where is it written
that to be Jewish you have to be rich?
so one can just give money, and spend one
morning a month at a shelter giving breakfast
to homeless people and that's it!
as compared to e.g. catholic chariti
i recently belonged to a temple that literally shunned me. i volunteered, went to torah study. was introduced to study group in when the Chazan was in mid-sentence, as oh, by the way - this is Elsa Davidson she is a new member and went on with his sentence. first time i met the rabbi he spent 10 seconds with me. what is it with the rich strut about the
shul like they "own" it. i guess they do. i can't
strut.
don't get it
i have a lot to offer, but it's not money.
shunned Hi Elsa, Your note made me sad. I think you should move to a new Shul. One that is friendly and inclusive, and that values all the different ways of contributing.The one I attend is like that.