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# One must be especially careful to give to a poor Torah scholar. If he doesn't want to receive it, one should try to help him make money in an honorable way or give him money to do business.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:14 </ref>. | # One must be especially careful to give to a poor Torah scholar. If he doesn't want to receive it, one should try to help him make money in an honorable way or give him money to do business.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:14 </ref>. | ||
==Giving to Those Collecting in Shul== | ===Giving to Those Collecting in Shul=== | ||
#The halacha is that it is forbidden to refuse a poor person’s request for tzedaka. Even though when they’re collecting from many people it isn’t necessary to give them a large donation, one should still give them something.<ref>Rambam (Matanot Laniyim 7:7) based on Tehillim 74:21, </ref> Some defend the practice of those who don’t give someone collecting tzedaka in shul.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 5:288 defends those who don't give when someone is collecting in a shul because it is only a problem to deny a poor person's request and leave him empty handed when he expected that he would get something. However, since he knows that he's not going to get from everyone in shul there's no such expectation and therefore no prohibition on every person. | #The halacha is that it is forbidden to refuse a poor person’s request for tzedaka. Even though when they’re collecting from many people it isn’t necessary to give them a large donation, one should still give them something.<ref>Rambam (Matanot Laniyim 7:7) based on Tehillim 74:21, </ref> Some defend the practice of those who don’t give someone collecting tzedaka in shul.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 5:288 defends those who don't give when someone is collecting in a shul because it is only a problem to deny a poor person's request and leave him empty handed when he expected that he would get something. However, since he knows that he's not going to get from everyone in shul there's no such expectation and therefore no prohibition on every person. | ||
* Maaseh Hatzedaka p. 98 says that there's no prohibition not to give a poor person collecting in shul because he got from others in shul and he isn't coming specifically to him.</ref> | * Maaseh Hatzedaka p. 98 says that there's no prohibition not to give a poor person collecting in shul because he got from others in shul and he isn't coming specifically to him.</ref> | ||
