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#If someone in their last will and testament specified giving tzedaka and then after they pass away a relative becomes poor the money can't be given specifically to that relative since the money belongs to all of the poor people of the city.<ref>Rama YD 251:5 writes that before the money gets to the gabbay it can be reapportioned to the relative only if the relative was poor at the time when the person passed away. Panim Meirot 1:103 implies otherwise as he writes that if the money didn't yet go into the hands of the gabbay it can be given to the relative.</ref> | #If someone in their last will and testament specified giving tzedaka and then after they pass away a relative becomes poor the money can't be given specifically to that relative since the money belongs to all of the poor people of the city.<ref>Rama YD 251:5 writes that before the money gets to the gabbay it can be reapportioned to the relative only if the relative was poor at the time when the person passed away. Panim Meirot 1:103 implies otherwise as he writes that if the money didn't yet go into the hands of the gabbay it can be given to the relative.</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to give more than 20% of one's wealth to tzedaka in one's last will and testament.<Ref>Ketubot 67b, Rama Y.D. 249:1</ref> Some say that one shouldn't give away more than a third of one's money to tzedaka in the will.<ref>Rabbi Akiva Eiger 249:1 citing the Shiltot</ref> Others disagree as long as one leave a significant amount to each child as inheritance.<ref>Igrot Moshe CM 2:50:2 writes that it is permitted to give away as much as one wants to in the last will and testament besides a significant sum that one leaves to each child so that one doesn't nullify the Torah's mitzvah of inheritance. In 1966 he wrote that giving 1000 per child is considered significant. However, in the previous teshuva, CM 2:49, written in 1979, he says that leaving 20% of the estate to the inheritors is considered a significant amount. </ref> | |||
===Collectors of Tzedaka=== | ===Collectors of Tzedaka=== | ||
