Hacham Yoseph Rubin Elkabelah


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A few quotes from the Rabbi on 'Tzedakah and Healing'
in which he teaches to gather strength by giving charity and being glad and of good cheer.
"You shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him". We are informed here that the necessary condition for the fulfillment of any commandment is the elimination of worry and sorrow - even concerning the commandment of charity, the fulfillment of which entails sorrow. One must therefore gather strength, and be glad and of good cheer at the hour of obligatory giving, since this is the essence and summit of fulfilling the commandment. For this is how G-d commanded Moses: "Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts" – meaning to say: The people who are to be known by the name of Israel, who undoubtedly give willingly, are glad and of good cheer; to them you will say simply 'to bring me gifts'. But when you are to take an offering 'from every person whose heart so moves him', this means to say: When you know some imperfect person whose heart will be anguished and pained when giving, the words 'whose heart so moves him' are taken to refer to 'anguish'. To such people you are to say: Do not be sorrowful. When you 'bring Me gifts', I will soon reimburse you the offering you have given Me.willing' – this means to say: When you know some imperfect person whose heart will be anguished and pained when giving an offering, the words 'maketh him willing' is taken to refer to 'anguish'. To such people you are to say: Do not be sorrowful. When you 'take for Me an offering' I will soon reimburse you the offering you have given Me.
Yoseph Hen, Sermon B on the Virtue of Charity, p. 23, Abraham Teshuva Press, Tripoli, 1928
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