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# Someone who can't live without [[Tzedaka]] (e.g. an elderly person, sick person, or someone suffering) but is haughty and doesn't take, sins by not taking.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:16 </ref> | # Someone who can't live without [[Tzedaka]] (e.g. an elderly person, sick person, or someone suffering) but is haughty and doesn't take, sins by not taking.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:16 </ref> | ||
# A person who doesn't need to take charity and nonetheless deceives people and takes won't die before he genuinely becomes poor.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:16</ref> | # A person who doesn't need to take charity and nonetheless deceives people and takes won't die before he genuinely becomes poor.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:16</ref> | ||
#It is forbidden to collect for luxuries.<ref>Ketubot 68a, Shevet Halevi 4:130</ref> | |||
== Statements of Chazal about Tzedaka== | == Statements of Chazal about Tzedaka== |