[Avodah] tzedaka priority

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

so the tenor  i hear is  it  is  mussar-ly  not  a great idea, and 
occaisionally may fall into the issur of nekama category.  this is my 
distinction of  positive vs  negative.
so  using  concrete examples : 

 take  for example , kollel lifestyle or  position on the state of israel. 
  so in a  positive  direction,  one might  davka  want to direct his 
tzedaka   TOWARDS  kollelim,  or  TOWARDS the yeshivot  of  a particular 
eidah.       -- this i think no one objects to 

in the negative  direction  ,  one  might NEVER give  money to a kollel  ; 
or  would  NEVER  give money to a yeshiva of a certain eidah.
--- in this case ,  rMB  would hold  it to be  a poor  midah ; [ the 2nd 
part -- mosdos  of particular eidos-- is more complicated , because one 
can always  say a certain eidah  is 'krum', and therefore  there might be 
an actual isssur to SUPPORT those mosdos]

now there is  one other  situation , which is  probably closer  to what 
rMB  would  consider an issur tora.  that would  be  a particular  mossad 
does a behavior/expresses an opinion  that  one NOW  finds out about, and 
vigourously  disagrees with.  rMB would  hold , i think, that this would 
now  be  an issur of nekama  to withhold  funds from .

   i think though  an alternate perspective  would be  that  that  mossad 
now  becomes  assur to the disagreeing  individual, to the point  that 
rather than holding  it's assur NOT to give to it  [as nekama] , it's now 
assur to YES  give to it  [as krumkeit, punishment for bad behaviour, etc] 




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