<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">saul mashbaum</b> <<a href="mailto:smash52@netvision.net.il">smash52@netvision.net.il</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>Consider the following scenario: a poor person, let's call him Moishie gives his friend, Shloimie, also a poor person, $100 as tzedaka (even though Moishie owes many times that amount). Shloimie promply gives the $100 to Moishie as tzedaka. The friends continue to give the $100 to one another, doing this dozens of times. Ultimately Moishie sees that Shloimie will not keep the $100, although he wants him to, and puts it in back his wallet. Now Moishie and Shloimie are each exactly as impoverished as before, but each has the tremendous zchut of having given thousands of dollars to tzedaka!
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<div>I doubt that this really "works" in the heavenly beit din, but not being privy to the proceedings of this most Supreme Court of all, I can't really be sure.</div>
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<div>Saul Mashbaum</div>
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<div><br>See SA OC 696:4 (talking about Mishloach Manos): "V'im ein lo, machlif im chaveiro, zeh sholeich l'zeh seudaso v'zeh sholeiach l'zeh seudaso k'dei l'kayem umishloach manos ish l'rei'eihu."
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<div>Not a complete parallel, but there is a similarity...</div>
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<div>Michael</div>