On Nov 14, 2007 2:54 PM, <<a href="mailto:regalkit@aol.com">regalkit@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">"If a person is wealthy,
instead of building a synagogue or bet midrash he rather
should give his money to respected scholars to enable them to study Torah. Sefer Chassidim 1039"</span></b></font></div>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There are may differences (nafke minahs). If a person makes a neder "Selah zu lizdakah bishvil sheyichye bni", and then gives the money to a Yeshiva has he obligated his vow? Hashem left us in Galus with two forms of gaining forgiveness; prayer and charity. Tzeddakah tatzil mimaves.
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Of course giving to a Yeshiva is a mitzva of Hachzakas hatorah, to Hatzola is chessed, etc., but can they be defined as tzeddakah?<br>
And if it is Tzedakah on what level of priority do these donations have vis-a-vis charity to a pauper.<br>
Binyomin Hirsch<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br>FWIW Look at the mishebeirach on Shabbos following yekum purkan<br>Look at the list of donations e.g.:<br><ol><li>Ner lama'or</li><li>yayin leikiddush yu'lehavdalah.</li><li>pas l'Orchim
</li><li>utzedakkh la'aniyim</li></ol>It seems clear that tzedakkh la'aniyim [or lo'aniyim] is a separate category<br>All the other acts of "hessed" are not subsumed within the category of "tzedakkah," rather tzedakkah is used NARROWLY. Other acts are perhaps equally worthy but the "taxonomy" used here is NOT Tzedakkah.
<br></div></div>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>