Rabbi David Kaplan - Philosophy of Mitzvot: Loans

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the next bit so that we're doing is the Mitzvah to lend money to a poor person oh okay listen very close to what we're talking about lending money to a poor person based on his needs and what we could afford now this is a very big method to lend money to a poor person and in certain ways it is a greater mixer than giving to DACA first of all when you lend a person when you give to DACA to somebody when you give charity to somebody so there's a certain embarrassment about taking charity when you take charity from somebody it's embarrassing to have to take charity and one of the biggest uh one of the biggest Mitzvahs in giving charity is to try to do it in as honorable a way as possible to maintain the honor and the Dignity of the poor person because it's very embarrassing they have to take money as a very embarrassing thing so when we give charity we try to give charity in a way that is as to save the talmud says that there was somebody named used to give money to a certain poor man who would put it by his put it by his door without the poor being knowing who was that was giving him the money and every

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1. 0:12the next bit so that we're doing is the Mitzvah to lend money to a poor…
2. 2:49nowadays there are all sorts of Charlotte there's all sorts of bad stories about people knocking…
3. 5:23world now if a poor man asks you for a loan the benefit excuse me the…
4. 8:30ask them again but that is why that's why it's a very big missing now in…
5. 11:09it be used as part of the free Loan Fund number one number two what's happened…
6. 14:16late at night or they can't get to the to the pharmacy they come to the…
7. 16:58if you know that he can't afford to pay you back and included in this uh…
8. 19:36um somebody who distributes this is such a beautiful mid so I can't get over it…
9. 22:46with the chickens is unbelievable because because not only he's doing it he's doing in such…
10. 25:28most men in the world they would rather know that they paid for something especially a…

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