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255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">I live in a well
to do area and I am, by communal standards, very poor.<span
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year, individuals in the community gave us more than $4,500 on
Purim, which I gave back to the rabbi as we are not entitled to
take charity. Last year and the year before, he refused to take
the money back from us and told us that we must keep it. I wrote
him a letter questioning this, and he told me that I could write
to you to ask if we may keep the money or not.<br>
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See the url for the rest of the question and the psak:<br>
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</span><a
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