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<div style="font-size: 12pt; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">Does giving to the poor or those in dire need (eg saving one from death at hands of nzis/ or other pikuach nefesh situations require or allow us to give more than the 20% of our income to the poor? </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">acc to website: <a href="http://waterburyyeshiva.org/highlights/page/5/">http://waterburyyeshiva.org/highlights/page/5/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">if someone is in front of you, takanos usha (kesubos 50a) wouldn't apply (see <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; ">Ahavas Chesed 2:20:2, Birchai Yosef 249:1), and therefore one would be allowed to give more </span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51,
51); line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">what if they are not in front of you? </font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">what if one hears of people in trouble in other parts of the world (eg, wwii nzi situation) is one required/allowed to sell off assets or give more, in order to save jews? (what about non-jews, rawanda, etc??)</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif">hb</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, 'new
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