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* Igrot Moshe OC 5:41 argues that it is forbidden even if he has a steady income and pidyon haben is different since the mitzvah itself is giving the cash. However, other mitzvot for which the cash itself isn’t the object used for the mitzvah, there is a 20% cap on trying to acquire the mitzvah. Also, Chazon Ish OC 149:3 answers that pidyon haben is different since there’s an obligation on one’s property to pay for pidyon haben.</ref> | * Igrot Moshe OC 5:41 argues that it is forbidden even if he has a steady income and pidyon haben is different since the mitzvah itself is giving the cash. However, other mitzvot for which the cash itself isn’t the object used for the mitzvah, there is a 20% cap on trying to acquire the mitzvah. Also, Chazon Ish OC 149:3 answers that pidyon haben is different since there’s an obligation on one’s property to pay for pidyon haben.</ref> | ||
==Taking Tzedaka== | ==Refraining from Taking Tzedaka== | ||
# A person should endeavor to refrain from taking charity and endure some hardship in order not to take charity. Chazal state that it is preferable to make your [[Shabbat]] meal like a weekday rather than take from charity. (See the [[Kavod Shabbat]] page for the practical laws about how a poor person should fulfill [[Kavod Shabbat]].) Anyone who presses himself to live with difficulty without taking charity is blessed to one day have enough money to support others.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:15-16</ref> | # A person should endeavor to refrain from taking charity and endure some hardship in order not to take charity. Chazal state that it is preferable to make your [[Shabbat]] meal like a weekday rather than take from charity. (See the [[Kavod Shabbat]] page for the practical laws about how a poor person should fulfill [[Kavod Shabbat]].) Anyone who presses himself to live with difficulty without taking charity is blessed to one day have enough money to support others.<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:15-16</ref> | ||
# Someone who can't live without [[Tzedaka]] | # 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> | ||
==Tzedaka before Pesach== | ==Tzedaka before Pesach== |