[Avodah] tzedaka priority

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:18:32PM -0800, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: is it acceptable to base  tzedaka decisions  based on hashkafa  --- ie  i 
: don't like your stand on a particular issue , therefore i will not  [or no 
: longer]  support your mossad?

Is this a triage mechanism, or a means of expressing and thus reinforcing
pirud, sin'ah and perhaps is a sort of neqamah?

In the latter case, it may be not only a bad idea on a mussar level,
it could be so to the extent of being assur lehalakhah.

RYBS famously collected from his talmidim for his uncle's mosedos. He
was asked (not often, but since this was over many years, a number of
times) by those close enough to him to have the temerity to ask why he
would collect for an anti-Zionist institution that thinks so little of
their own lifestyle. RYBS argued that he himself lived in Boston and
worked in NY, his uncle is building Judaism in Israel -- which is the
real Zionist? (The previous story is how I recall RARR's telling of it
on a number of his MP3-recorded shiurim.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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