[Avodah] timtum halev

[David Riceman]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
See Tosefta Peiah 3:8 for another (and even more extreme) example - - 
shich'cha.
>  IOW that Micha is right across
> the board that kavvanah is king
>   
ibid. 1:4, though it's less than obvious (see the end of the Tosefta there).
> 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.
>   
David Riceman