Chelek 27 Bechukosai 2 Rabbi Yosef Kantor

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Okay, this is a book 27 on the portion of the third. Fascinatingly, what we're going to discuss here is the concept of giving and the limitations that our sages have placed on giving. And while the concept of looking for loopholes is usually seen as looking how to get out of how much you have to give, we will find here that there are interesting loopholes in there are interesting loopholes in perhaps um um being allowed to give more than what is usually recommended. Some people are using looking for loopholes to give less as in a tax loophole. Some people are looking for loopholes. How can they give more charity than advocated in the Torah? So let's take a look and and look at it from the sources paragraph one in the end of the laws of um and in the book of means when somebody says he wants to give his own somebody says he wants to give his own worth. So we learned in this in the par intrinsic value which the placed upon him for this purpose for the purpose of donating his value to the bik. It's not his actual value. It just goes by how old you are and how many silver coins will be symbolic of your age or so that's the laws those laws and laws of which means those that decide to give um to to give of their own wealth of their own belongings to God through by by

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1. 0:00Okay, this is a book 27 on the portion of the third. Fascinatingly, what we're going…
2. 4:35pilgrimage when you come up the three times a here for the holidays you have to…
3. 9:09a saint when it says don't give more than 20% it means somebody who never sinned…
4. 13:49one second. If that's the case that a person is not allowed to give all of…
5. 18:30it's not even pious because there's no active need right now. Take 20%. So one second,…
6. 23:12those that are in front of you that you are able to give more also if…
7. 27:48there a person should be compassionate and he's not limited to 20%. However, in the laws…
8. 32:29For mitzvah for a choice mitzvah 20% you should be responding to the needs. If you…
9. 37:05than 20%, he's violating the dot, which is like the opinion of the verse that says…
10. 41:45he's pious even more than 20%. Especially if there's a poor person standing there and you…

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