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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Isn't this explicitly rejected, though? A poor person's korban is</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">just as valuable as a rich person's. Also, "echad hamarbeh ve'echad</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">hamam'it", and "Rachamana liba ba'i"</span> >><div><br></div><div>For reward in heaven it depends on effort and not achievement.</div>
<div>However, the privileges in this world depend on a high level of achievement.</div><div>Thus, for example the case of a TC goes first in a bet din and perhaps in a line for a private doctor.</div><div>One stands up for a TC.</div>
<div>In theory a TC does not pay certain taxes, for exceptional cases one says a bracha on seeing a gadol.</div><div><br></div><div>On certainly is not required to stand up for someone who diligently spends hours going over Rashi on the parsha</div>
<div>because he has a poor background.</div><div>There is a story of someone who was a bal teshuva late in life and spent a long time learning one daf of gemara and became ill.</div><div>RMF paskened that he could say a siyum on one daf because of his efforts. No doubt he gets a great reward however he</div>
<div>certainly is not a TC to stand up for or to receive breaks on taxes and going ahead on line.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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