Parshat Re'eh: How You Can Give to G-d - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] whenever the two poor brothers would come to the rich man fits a duck of a charity he give them each a hundred dollar bill now once it happened that after a gap of more than a year one of the brothers returned to the rich man alone where's your brother in quite the rich man he passed away two months ago I'm so sorry said the rich man may the Almighty comfort to you amongst the other mourners of theone and yerushalayim thank you said the poor man the rich man promptly placed the crisp $100 bill into the poor man's hand excuse me said the poor man but you forgot my brothers hundred dollars he's dead by the rich man yes said the poor man but I'm his brother why should you get his inheritance the Torah considers someone who averts his eyes from the needy as though he worshipped idols ostensibly the connection is difficult to understand stain Genesis are lacking in our relationship with our fellow human beings idol worship is purely between us and God really every Mitzvah that involves giving to our fellow beings is a reflection of our relationship with our Shem as it says in d'Ivry how your meme chronicles everything is from you and this is from your hand that we have given to you we have nothing to give except the giving itself everything else belongs to God the medieval terror commentator the rush rites do not make gold and silver your folly for this is the beginning of idol worship when we give sadaqa charity properly we're acknowledging that we are merely the stewards of our wealth that it's not ours in addition by using our possessions to serve God we testify to the fact that the world has a purpose that the point of life is not self gratification we acknowledge that we and everything we have is part of God's plan to bring this world to a state of perfection that's both our inheritance and our bequest [Music] you [Applause]