The Importance of Matanos Levyonim - Rabbi Avraham Wein

hello everyone this is Rabbi avraham wine from congregation ketter Torah and Teaneck and from TABC one of the very special mitzvos that we have the opportunity to fulfill every single day is the Mitzvah of sadaka of giving charity the gamara suvos tells us that someone who does not give Sadako turns away from a poor person it says if they worship the votazara and then the more positive end of the spectrum the gamara says that someone who gives sadaka they bring the Gula closer they bring the ultimate Redemption closer Umar there also relates that the Mitzvah of sadaka is equivalent to all of the rest of the mitzvos in the Torah clearly the midst of sadaka is a core indispensable obligation amongst our 613 mitzvo but in just a few weeks we're going to have a different obligation where we also have to give money to support the poor and we refer to this Mitzvah as the midst of matanoslavion giving gifts to the destitute to the poor and we know this is one of the obligations on Purim one of our ways of fulfilling the various mitzvos hayong and the question I'd like to raise in this brief video is what is the nature of this obligation this is just a classic din a classic law of sadaka just that has a special expression on the day of param or is it a special param obligation with a distinct theme or character although of course it might be a little bit of overlap the first way of looking at it is that indeed it really is just a classic example of the midst of tadaka just with an expression of it on the day of Purim if you look in the commentary or the translation of the target of yonasan Target my own son translates matanus casa these are Gifts of sadaka of giving charity and you look in the shiboli halekka the shiba like a culture baby who says is the classical Mitzvah of tadaka himself also believed as he's quoted as explicitly saying I don't think about him as a unique part of my obligation it really is just a classic mix of tadaka expressed on this day I'd like to propose to you in a different way of thinking about my channel and perhaps Montana is not the classic Midsouth Sedaka but it actually expresses a Core theme of what the day of perm is all about and in fact the rich VA one of our great Spanish who showed him rights that this is not McDonald's it's not just a simple classic din of tadaka it's a different concept A different principle and the Redford gives his own suggestion I'd like to suggest that perhaps with the DNA law of material is all about is actually capturing one of the essential themes of the magila and one of the exception essential themes of param as a whole because if you look in the megillah what is the lesson Mordecai is trying to send to Esther in those dramatic moments in the fourth chapter Mordecai tells Esther that don't believe don't think you can escape away from the rest of the Jews that you don't have responsibility any obligations towards them you've got to help them you've got to try on their behalf and what Mordechai is expressing to Esther here and when she so valiantly and heroically performs in the rest of the magila is a notion of Jewish solidarity and feeling responsible for your fellow Jews and Esther understands that and Esther acts on that and the theme of the mcgillah is this notion of solidarity a feeling or sense of responsibility towards the other and caring about the other and if that's the case and that's one of the core themes of the megillah amigila estere then one more perfect way to capture that idea that matanus of yonimo giving gifts to the poor because with my channel is all about is that expression of Jewish solidarity of responsibility towards the other and what better way to reflect the Core theme of yelato stare then in the midst of autonomous we all fulfill this Mitzvah with tremendous passion to give to the extent that we're capable of and besides him we should all have a wonderful program keeping this beautiful obligation in mind