[Avodah] timtum halev

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

I was taught when I was young [midrash? Chassidic story?] that if
one dropped a coin and a poor person found it, that he gets credit
for tzedakkah

And that this case is unique sui generis IOW that Micha is right across
the board that kavvanah is king - except by tzedakkah.

Apparently RET was giving the converse, that positive machshava does
not count. This part I don't get - I would see HKBH is mitztareif
machshavah l'maaseh, especially when there is a maaseh, albeit flawed.

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So regarding cheftzah sel mitzvah, theurgy and theodicy and "tzedakah
tatzil mimaves"

How would we frame the machloqes between rationalists and mystics on
tzedakah?

GS
RRW
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