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You know, when it comes to mitzvot, when
it comes to the Torah, there's a lot of
uh issues that have to do with money. Uh
a lot of things that have to do with
money. Why?
Because the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat
says that when a uh person
is finished with his life in this world,
Hakadosh Baruch Hu will ask him
questions at the Beit Din of Heaven. And
the first question that Hashem is going
to ask a person is not about whether he
put on tefillin, it's not about whether
he kept Shabbat, it's not about even of
whether he protected his brit. The first
question that a person is going to be
asked in Shamayim is money matters. Did
you conduct your business with emunah?
Meaning, how did you deal with money?
Did you steal from people? Did you
destroy their life? Were you in a
predatory business like the cash advance
industry that pretends to help people
but in reality is destroying their
lives? All types of other similar
industries that are simply preying on
people's ignorance? Or did you have
emunah in Hashem and regardless of
whether you were a plumber or you sold
cars or you built buildings or you
invested, whatever it was, you did what
you did honestly because you knew that
Hashem is watching everything. How did
you do deal with your money?
So,
when it comes to the Torah, there are
many things that have to do with money.
Not just donations, not just loans, but
literally everything. Why? Because money
is called blood in the words of the
Gemara because people spend their entire
life, their entire blood chasing it,
making it, spending it. And it's very
important for a person to know where
they stand by simply looking at how they
deal with money, how they relate to
money, how they treat money. How do they
uh idolize money?
All of these issues have a lot to do
with a