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# If one had the opportunity to help a poor bride and groom get married or to buy Sefarim to learn and lend to others to learn, if he couldn't otherwise do those Mitzvos with his own money, without the Ma'aser money, he can use the Ma'aser money for these purposes.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:4 </ref>. | # If one had the opportunity to help a poor bride and groom get married or to buy Sefarim to learn and lend to others to learn, if he couldn't otherwise do those Mitzvos with his own money, without the Ma'aser money, he can use the Ma'aser money for these purposes.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:4 </ref>. | ||
# However, if one buys books with Ma'aser money, one must be careful to loan them to others unless one is using them (in which case one's use takes precedence). He should also be careful to write on them "from Ma'aser money", so that his children later don't take possession of them <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:4 </ref>. | # However, if one buys books with Ma'aser money, one must be careful to loan them to others unless one is using them (in which case one's use takes precedence). He should also be careful to write on them "from Ma'aser money", so that his children later don't take possession of them <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:4 </ref>. | ||
===Sources of Income=== | |||
====Gifts==== | |||
#Derech Emunah 7:27 quotes the Chazon Ish that someone who gets a non-cash present doesn't not have to give maaser on its value. In fnt. 67 he explains that the reason is that it wasn't included in the minhag. | |||
#Someone who gets a real estate as an inheritance or present does not need to give maaser on it.<ref>Shevet Halevi 5:133:3:7 writes that the minhag is not to give maaser on getting a real estate for an inheritance or present.</ref> | |||
==Taking Tzedaka== | ==Taking Tzedaka== | ||
