The Rebbe's Charity Campaign | Mivtza Tzedaka

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

welcome uh to another class in our series uh covering the the rebbe's me mitzvah campaigns i believe this is the third class in the series i think the last class was shabbos candles and we've been doing one class a month this is a special project of a lot of the five towns an awareness project each month highlighting another one of the mitzvah campaigns and this class or this lecture series is part of that project and of course the entire project is dedicated la zaika nishmas dinalea so this should be again this this class among all of the many things that are being done lilly nishmas uh dinalea should be in in herschels and um not just the class but the purpose of the class when we're studying about mitzvos is to actually follow through and do those mitzvahs so when you're doing these mitzvahs please have in mind uh again that this okay so tadaka the mitzvah of tadaka i think we called this lecture the quintessential mitzvah why because i like the word quintessential it's a fancy word and how often do i get a chance to use it but what does quintessential mean quintessential means the the mitzvah par excellence right um if you like french or it means the how else might you say it um the archetypical mitzvah all right it's a lot of fancy words but

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1. 0:00welcome uh to another class in our series uh covering the the rebbe's me mitzvah campaigns…
2. 3:44but but i was born in the summer of 74. so this is like right before…
3. 7:49monetary possessions or being wealthy for its own sake is is is antithetical to to to…
4. 11:28jews in eastern europe were and whether they were very very poor um the jews in…
5. 15:44that they should give tzedakah before cooking it'll bring blessing under the food also before shabbos…
6. 19:50um well just any old time throughout the day when you think of it but oh…
7. 23:40i mean obviously twice as much as as as a tenth and then i'll say just…
8. 27:53you know speak to uh you know your personal rabbinical guide and uh you know see…
9. 31:34and the and the computer and the fios these are spiritually neutral on their own but…
10. 35:49refines physicality real quickly and real powerfully so there's a very direct connection between seducka and…

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