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===Checking Certificates of the Poor===
===Checking Certificates of the Poor===
#Before giving tzedaka, besides food, you need to check that the poor person is honest and really needs the money.<ref>Psakim Vteshuvot 251:15 writes that we should rely on the minhag to give to anyone with a valid certificate that says that they can collect money. He says that the decrees set by local rabbis sometimes to disallow anyone without a proper certificate from a local rabbi or local bet din is forbidden. He quotes this from Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg and Mishna Halachot 13:173. Rav Elyashiv in Kovetz Teshuvot 4:123 writes that we should insist to check and not rely on every certificate because there are many who aren't honest. Rif bava batra 6b and Rosh hold that you need two witnesses, Piskei Din Yerushalayim Dinei Mamonot Vbirurei Yahadut v. 3 p. 157 rules accordingly that it is necessary to ascertain the integrity of the poor person with two witnesses otherwise they should not be given anything.</ref>
#Before giving tzedaka, besides food, you need to check that the poor person is honest and really needs the money.<ref>Psakim Vteshuvot 251:15 writes that we should rely on the minhag to give to anyone with a valid certificate that says that they can collect money. He says that the decrees set by local rabbis sometimes to disallow anyone without a proper certificate from a local rabbi or local bet din is forbidden. He quotes this from Rav Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg and Mishna Halachot 13:173. Rav Elyashiv in Kovetz Teshuvot 4:123 writes that we should insist to check and not rely on every certificate because there are many who aren't honest. Rif bava batra 6b and Rosh hold that you need two witnesses, Piskei Din Yerushalayim Dinei Mamonot Vbirurei Yahadut v. 3 p. 157 rules accordingly that it is necessary to ascertain the integrity of the poor person with two witnesses otherwise they should not be given anything.</ref>
==How to Give it==
# One who gives [[Tzedaka]] should do it from the best of his property. If one buys a place of [[prayer]], it should be nicer than his house. One who feeds a poor person should give him from the best things on his table. One who gives clothing to someone who doesn't have should give him from the nicest of his clothing.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:5 </ref>.
# Anyone who gives [[Tzedaka]] to a poor person with a negative expression or face looking at the ground--even if he gave him 1,000 gold pieces--loses his merit, and in fact violates a Torah commandment <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:7 </ref>. Rather, one is obligated to give him with a nice expression, with happiness, with empathy for his plight, and with words of encouragement <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:7 </ref>.
# The highest form of [[Tzedaka]] is preventing a poor person from becoming poor in the first place--for example, giving him a proper gift in a respectable way that prevents him from becoming poor, loaning him, becoming a business partner, or finding him a job <ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:12 </ref>.
# One should be careful to give [[Tzedaka]] as privately as possible; if possible, it is best if he doesn't know whom he is giving to, and they don't know whom they received it from.<ref> Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 34:13. See earlier, that it is clear that one must give to a person in legitimate need </ref>.


==How Much Should a Person Give?==
==How Much Should a Person Give?==
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