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* Pri Yitzchak 2:27 writes that paying to teach your son counts for maaser since you only need to teach your sons torah shebaal peh but don’t need to pay to teach them gemara, Ahavat Chesed 19:2 and Aruch Hashulchan 249:10 are strict. Leket Yosher YD 76a is lenient. However, Igrot Moshe YD 2:113 writes that sending children to public is not an option because they won’t learn torah and emunah. Since it is an obligation to send them to a religious school the tuition can’t be counted as maaser. Shevet Halevi 5:133:2 is strict for another reason; since it is a mitzvah to pay to teach your son talmud if you can afford it (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 245:6), it shouldn’t be deducted from maaser if one can afford it. Badei Hashulchan 249:13 and Yachava Daat 3:76 in fnt. disagree and are lenient.</ref> | * Pri Yitzchak 2:27 writes that paying to teach your son counts for maaser since you only need to teach your sons torah shebaal peh but don’t need to pay to teach them gemara, Ahavat Chesed 19:2 and Aruch Hashulchan 249:10 are strict. Leket Yosher YD 76a is lenient. However, Igrot Moshe YD 2:113 writes that sending children to public is not an option because they won’t learn torah and emunah. Since it is an obligation to send them to a religious school the tuition can’t be counted as maaser. Shevet Halevi 5:133:2 is strict for another reason; since it is a mitzvah to pay to teach your son talmud if you can afford it (Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 245:6), it shouldn’t be deducted from maaser if one can afford it. Badei Hashulchan 249:13 and Yachava Daat 3:76 in fnt. disagree and are lenient.</ref> | ||
===Setting Aside Maaser=== | ===Setting Aside Maaser or Giving in Advance=== | ||
#Some say that one should set aside maaser even if there’s no poor people present, while others argue.<ref>Rishon Letzion 247:1 writes that a person should set aside the maaser kesafim even if there’s no poor people present so that it’ll be available for later. Shevet Halevi 4:124:2 and 5:131:1 disagrees and holds that there’s no mitzvah to separate maaser kesafim like there is for other maaser; the mitzvah is to give it to the poor.</ref> | #Some say that one should set aside maaser even if there’s no poor people present, while others argue.<ref>Rishon Letzion 247:1 writes that a person should set aside the maaser kesafim even if there’s no poor people present so that it’ll be available for later. Shevet Halevi 4:124:2 and 5:131:1 disagrees and holds that there’s no mitzvah to separate maaser kesafim like there is for other maaser; the mitzvah is to give it to the poor.</ref> | ||
#It is permitted to give tzedaka before making money and stipulate that it will count it as maaser when one makes money.<ref>Darkei Moshe 250:1 quoting Hagahot Mordechai (Bava Batra n. 657), Aruch Hashulchan 249:7</reF> | |||
===What to do with the Ma'aser money?=== | ===What to do with the Ma'aser money?=== | ||
