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#There is no specific time for Tzedaka and even though some kabbalists say that one shouldn't give it at night, the consensus is that it is totally acceptable to give tzedaka at night.<ref> Some learned from the Arizal that he didn't give tzedaka at night because nighttime is a time of judgement (see [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%94/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%91 Shaar Kavanot Mincha Drush 2]). However, the Chida in Petach Ayanim Bava Kama 16b rejects that positions and maintains that it is certainly a mitzvah to give tzedaka at night. Rav Chaim Palagi Haggadah p. 130 discusses this topic.</ref> | #There is no specific time for Tzedaka and even though some kabbalists say that one shouldn't give it at night, the consensus is that it is totally acceptable to give tzedaka at night.<ref> Some learned from the Arizal that he didn't give tzedaka at night because nighttime is a time of judgement (see [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%A8_%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%94/%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9_%D7%91 Shaar Kavanot Mincha Drush 2]). However, the Chida in Petach Ayanim Bava Kama 16b rejects that positions and maintains that it is certainly a mitzvah to give tzedaka at night. Rav Chaim Palagi Haggadah p. 130 discusses this topic.</ref> | ||
====Davening==== | ====Davening==== | ||
# It is a pious practice to give tzedaka before davening.<Ref>Rambam (Matanot Aniyim 10:15), Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 249:14</ref> | |||
#When a person is saying birchot kriyat shema or shema and a poor person asks for tzedaka, he shouldn't interrupt to give him, yet the minhag is to be lenient even for birchot kriyat shema to give the tzedaka. However, if he's in the middle of pesukei dzimra he is exempt but can give the tzedaka if he wants to.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 3:287</ref> | #When a person is saying birchot kriyat shema or shema and a poor person asks for tzedaka, he shouldn't interrupt to give him, yet the minhag is to be lenient even for birchot kriyat shema to give the tzedaka. However, if he's in the middle of pesukei dzimra he is exempt but can give the tzedaka if he wants to.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 3:287</ref> | ||
# Someone collecting tzedaka may not do so in the middle of Chazarat Hashatz or Kiryat Hatorah since it disturbs the concentration of those who are davening and listening to Chazarat Hashatz or Kriyat Hatorah.<ref>Pri Megadim M"Z 566:3, Mishna Brurah 92:36</ref> | # Someone collecting tzedaka may not do so in the middle of Chazarat Hashatz or Kiryat Hatorah since it disturbs the concentration of those who are davening and listening to Chazarat Hashatz or Kriyat Hatorah.<ref>Pri Megadim M"Z 566:3, Mishna Brurah 92:36</ref> | ||
====Before Death==== | ====Before Death==== | ||
#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> | ||
