Orchos Chaim of the Rosh #68 - Minimum Annual Tzedaka Requirement

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone we continue the arches time of the rush we're up to ice zamachas number 68. if i may go back to number 67 for a moment where he said not to disparage any person or any item because every person has their hour and every item has their place i believe that that is a follow that is following where it says do not be arrogant toward creations and you should be humble and you should be like dust to everyone that everyone steps on so the follow-up on that following that is the idea that not to disparage or look down on any person or any item that is a hanhaga of the meda of humility okay we're up to ice one should run after righteousness now usually that refers to besden one should run after justice in this context the russia is interpreting the passage that one should run after charity why ki roy de sudanka vachasad one who ha runs after charity and kindness he will find life charity and honor in fact this comes from aposic in mishlai the positive says roy dev tsudak said meaning someone who runs after myself sadaqa hashem will provide the person with khayim sadaka and kavaj meaning hashem will provide you with life with wealth and with honor in fact the gemara says one who runs after tsadakovaca he will have sons who are balay oysher in other words hashem will uh repay a person midda kinagenmida now the gemara tells us in sukkah that anyone who does sadaqa umishbad it's like he filled up the whole world with khased as the passage says one who loves sadaqa will fill up the whole world says the gemara i would think that anything that comes your way you should jump on it therefore the pasik says which means that i might think anyone who comes to you for tsudaka and khasit you should jump all over it uh the answer is no it's don't think that every single cause is justified and is as as worthy as the other but rather mayaka you need to do your due diligence and work hard and be matriarch to try to find the uh most worthy tsudaka meaning from here we see something very important that in order to be zoycha to give sudaka to anashima ganim it's a davar yakar meaning it's not so easy it's not so simple to find the righteous person the righteous cause and you need to pay attention to uh try to find it and only someone who's erased shamayim will be such a thing in fact the gemara says in baba basra what does it mean today says gemara anyone who runs after tsudakka hashem will provide the person with banay adam mehuganim to be able to do tsudaka in order to get skar so from here we see the icker and even by the way yermia davenned that the anchayanasais hash girmia davin that they should not be to give tzedakah to worthy recipients so we see the main reward for tsudaka is dafga to beneath and this is something which is very precious and very rare and very yaaka are in the eyes of hashem but somehow the right causes now the says a very powerful idea that avraham avinu on the third day of ismillah god sent his way archem and in the church of the hester that did to these arkham abrahavino brought to claudia the mon and the bear and the slav and the explains because even though abraham avinu did khasid his entire life but nevertheless the people who he did to were gentiles or if they awaited zara so hashem wanted one time in the life of abraham abram should be able to give sadaka to the most worthy and righteous entities sashem brought his way malachi ashares and therefore the hesse was very generously rewarded now the rush continues one should not give less than a max of sasha every year at one time now this is a very interesting halacha you should not give less than a max hashacal why should you not give less than a uh where does this shear come from not to give less than uh maxis hashaka the perosh iraqi sharim says uh well wait a second the gemara baba basra says that there is a bare minimum amount of stukka that everyone is required to give a third of a shekel annually and this is what's possible that you need to give at least a third of a shackle so what's the rush saying you need to give a half a shekel you know who asked this question the shock and your idea i was i was amazed that the shach would quote the archim of the rash i think that's the earliest safer that i have seen quoting the rash the shachas why does the rash say that you're higher to give a half a shekel a year when the gomorrah says you only have to give a third of a shackle that's what's possible so my friend sent me today from a parish of he says well it means because of inflation the third of a shekel is now a half shekel however the shah himself says that what the rush is writing is midas hasidos is a pious practice but but technically you don't even have to give a half you could give a third right as we mentioned from your rabbi husker levenstein that the rush wrote the orgasm of the rush for himself um and in other words the the uh the han haga are not obligatory on everyone this is something the rush just wrote for himself but it's not something that everybody is kayev in um but the again the shock and that's that's what the shock says the shock agrees that the russia only wrote it lumidos but medina you're only hive to give a third another interesting thing is well what why does the rush say you should give it one time the gemara certainly does not imply that you have to give that minimum share of tsudaka at one time so the reprime kinievsky says maybe what the rush is referring to is the minhag of max ashako before purim like we find in the message soyphrim okay so we'll hold that over here but there seems to be a minimum amount of time a minimum amount of money that one should give annually and that minimum amount is a third of a shackle according to the rush it might be a half a shackle or or that just might be amidas hasidus rash but there is a certain minimum amount of tsadaka that one should give annually okay we'll hold it over here and uh we'll pick it up tomorrow same time wishing everyone braghavat you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com