Is Your Tzedakah Charity Priceless or Worthless? (4 Minutes)

In order for us not to fail, for any sin we have to treat everything like it's a big deal -- big or small. Don't ever try to evaluate a mitzvah, because we don't know the value of each mitzvah so we don't know what's the biggest mitzvah. We don't know what the smallest mitzvah is. It could be that the smallest mitzvah -- something that you think is a small mitzvah ends up being the biggest reward in Olam Haba, and the one you think is a big deal is not really that big of a deal. Like in today's age, unfortunately, people are led to believe that the biggest mitzvah in the Torah is [to] give tzedekah. This is not true. Tzedekah is a big mitzvah, but it depends what kind of tzedekah. Tzedekah has two parts of the mitzvah. There's the mitzvah of giving, but as far as the merit in the reward: it is the outcome of the giving. If someone looks at things logically -- they don't even need to look at the verses, you want to look at the verses we could spend another few hours learning about it. But if you just look at things logically, yes, tzedekah is a big mitzvah, but only if you use it the right way. The same thing when someone says, "listen, i tried sending you an email 50 times, but it didn't work." It didn't work. I wrote it 50 times. It didn't work. I pressed send. I pressed send. I pressed send. I pressed send. I pressed send. And it didn't work." I said, "Okay, so show me what you sent." And they show me what they sent. I said, "Oh, you you forgot to put the dot in dot com." [He says], Ah, come on you're making a big deal out of one little dot?! I wrote the whole thing yaron at beezrat hashem dot org. So I forgot to put the dot. What's the big deal? What do you mean, "what's the big deal?!" If there's no dot the whole thing is worthless! The whole thing can be great. You spelled everything perfect. It could be 500 letters. You spelled everything perfect, perfect, perfect. but if you're missing the dot, it's worthless. It's not gonna get anywhere. The same thing with our tzedekah. You could give five hundred million dollars -- not five dollars -- five hundred million, but if it's for the Red Cross, or for some Christian institution, that's trying to recruit Jews, or it's for something that's against G-d It's worthless. So, yes, tzedekah can be used as a good tool. It could be a very big mitzvah. You could buy yourself a big Olam Haba because of it, but only if you did it the right way.