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Tzedakah & Maaser Understanding Your Giving Obligations

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Everybody has a requirement to give to Daka. Even the most poor of a person has to give to Daka. Basically, that amounts to $5 a year. $5 a year is the minimum requirement that everybody, even somebody who lives off Saddaka, has to give that. After that, Micer is wean that Meer is a mig. >> It's not. Some say it's a dasa, some say it's draon, and some say it's a mig. We pascan very clearly according to pretty much everybody that we say that is a mic. So, that's a custom. If you can't keep the custom, so then you don't you don't keep the c. I mean, it's not like it's a if you're in debt, you still have to go to shul. Even though going to shul is probably the raon, you still have to go to sh >> obligation. >> It's an obligation, but it's an obligation. Miser is not an obligation. But what throws people off is all the actually it's fascinating. Goes through so many different sources that how what saddaka does for you. So that's what I think throws people off. They especially they're in debt. So they how am I going to get out of debt? Well, that's your department. But it's uh it's not easy to get out of debt, right? So they think okay so I'll do every sigula in the book which is to give to ducka which is misguided because you should not come on to other people to give you to give you money. If you borrow money and you owe somebody personally money then you don't take messer. How would you go? Why are you going to take myer if you have a credit card that you should not be giving you should not be giving