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# If one '''verbalizes''' this commitment, one must make good on it immediately to not violate the command "בל תאחר / do not delay" <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:9 </ref>. If no poor are available, one must set it aside until he finds poor people.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:9 </ref>. | # If one '''verbalizes''' this commitment, one must make good on it immediately to not violate the command "בל תאחר / do not delay" <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:9 </ref>. If no poor are available, one must set it aside until he finds poor people.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:9 </ref>. | ||
===How to Give=== | ===How to Give=== | ||
# One should be very careful not to raise his voice against or embarrass a poor person <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:8 </ref>. | # One should be very careful not to raise his voice against or embarrass a poor person.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:8 </ref> | ||
#If one gives tzedaka while expressing a begrudging face one doesn't get any mitzvah.<ref>The Rambam (Matanot Laniyim 10:4) writes that a person should not give tzedaka with a sour face and if he does he loses his mitzvah. Radvaz sources it in Bava Batra 9b that a person is rewarded for cheering up a poor person. The Gra cites the source for this Rambam in the pasuk Devarim 15:10. The Sefer Hachinuch 479 seems to adopt the same approach that the mitzvah of tzedaka is to give it with happiness and giving in a begrudging manner isn't a mitzvah. Tzafnat Pane'ach says that the source for the Rambam is Chagiga 5a. Chagiga 5a shows that it is better not to give tzedaka than to give and embarrass the poor person. Avot Drebbe Natan ch. 13 writes that if a person gives someone a lot of presents with his face looking towards the ground it is like he gave him nothing.</ref> | |||
===Giving on Numerous Occassions=== | ===Giving on Numerous Occassions=== | ||
# It is better to give a lot of poor people a little money, then to give one poor person a lot of money.<ref> Rambam Peirush Hamishnayot Avot 3:15 </ref> | # It is better to give a lot of poor people a little money, then to give one poor person a lot of money.<ref> Rambam Peirush Hamishnayot Avot 3:15 </ref> | ||
