When you don’t see blessings from your charity.

there's a man in my synagogue that every year gives ten thousand dollars and I asked him if he could stand up in front of the congregation and speak to everybody and talk about the blessings that he sees from his charity but he told me Barrow I can't because I don't see any blessings from my charity and this really bothered me because I'm the guy that pledges him every year so how could it be that he doesn't see it and I went home and I thought about it and I did the math and the reason why he's not seeing the blessings from his charity is because he's not giving enough he only gives ten thousand dollars which means that God only has to give him forty thousand dollars that is left for him to keep [Music] it again [Music] so if you gave twenty thousand dollars then God would give him a hundred thousand dollars if he gave forty thousand dollars then God would give him two hundred thousand dollars see the problem with charity and the way we've been looking at it forever is this most people look at charity going backwards they say to themselves if I made a hundred thousand dollars this year then I owe ten thousand dollars to charity the problem is if a person makes a hundred thousand dollars after tuition after rent after food after insurance and after a vacation he has no money left he might even be in debt he doesn't even have ten thousand dollars left over to give to charity so he's not even doing that bare minimum here came the Le Bobby and changed everything and flipped it completely on its head instead of looking backwards at what you made to determine what you owed to charity he challenged us to look forward and make a pledge and decide how much money we want to make for the upcoming year and based on how much our pledges that's how much we're going to make foreign [Music] foreign