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זהירות מהפסדי ממון — sukkos zehirut mihefsedei mammon lashon kodesh 5787
Выпуск: זהירות מהפסדי ממון — sukkos zehirut mihefsedei mammon lashon kodesh 5787. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. On the envelope was written, “a loan until the money is found.” Tzedakah at Nichum Aveilim A relative told Reb Shmuel’s son-in-law, Reb Moshe Yosef Rosner: A family in the Neve Achiezer neighborhood was sitting shivah for their sister, a little girl who had suffered through a severe illness. When he came to be menachem avel, he turned to the bereaved father and said, “I want to speak to you privately.” They went off to a side room, and after they spoke, the father returned to where the rest of the family was sitting, and he looked relieved and noticeably calmer. Reb Yaakov Werdikovsky further related: “I was once in his office, and I could not open the drawer because it was so full of checks from the gemach that could not be covered.” Tzedakah Disguised as a Loan Harav Aryeh Tobias, a member of the Badatz of Kiryat Vizhnitz, related what he heard from his father-in-law, Harav Mordechai Zal- man Vizhnitzer, Rosh Kollel of Antiniya: Whenever there was financial trouble, Rabbi Dov Welcher, the di- rector of the kollel, knew to whom to turn — Reb Shmuel Daskal. A Vizhnitzer chassid from London shared his personal story with one of Reb Shmuel’s sons-in-law, Reb Yitzchak Zeideh, the executive director of Vizhnitz Institutions in Bnei Brak: When I came to visit Israel, I brought with me a sum of money that I would need for my stay, but I miscalculated and didn’t bring enough. Reb Shmuel knew that I was having financial trouble, and the gift Diamonds, Deals And Deeds ◊ 6 9 Chapter Six that he gave me rejuvenated me, especially since at the time I’d re- ceived the money, I thought it was going to be a loan. These are the practical ways how Reb Shmuel implemented the words of the Rambam, “One should deceive him and give it to him as a loan.” Sometimes, it was necessary to cloak the giving in another way, as described in later chapters. Hundreds of Thousands of Liras — with No Intention of Being Repaid Rabbi Yona Fuchs related: An older bachur who lived in the Neve Achiezer neighborhood asked Reb Shmuel for a loan of several hundred liras for an airline ticket. When I realized that Reb Shmuel was planning to lend him the sum, I whispered to him, “I don’t think this man will repay the
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Chapter Six Chapter Six Disguised as a Loan Where Will They Get Dollars to Repay? The Rambam writes, “When a poor man does not want to accept charity, then one should deceive him and give it to him as a loan” (Matnos Aniyim 7:39). This lofty way of chessed was one that Reb Shmuel excelled in. The idea to establish a gemach filled his heart with joy. He could perform chessed with the poor in a way that would veil his true objective of giving. Instead of directly giving sums of money, he could lend it. If they would be able to, they would return it, and if not, they simply would not. The gemach, based in his home, lent out large sums of money even to people who he did not know. He never asked for guarantors or security. His sharp and experienced intuition was enough for him to discern if the petitioner was a swindler and a fraud or if he was genu- inely needy. If the latter was the case, then he could trust the person without guarantors, because the objective was to give. During that time, the dollar was much stronger than the shekel, and the shekel’s value was constantly declining. The gemach operated with shekels, so that the borrower could benefit from the reduced value of the…
Темы: family_education