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# A community should establish a trustworthy gabbay to collect and distribute the communal tzedaka funds.<ref>Bava Batra 10b remarks that a person shouldn't give to a tzedaka fund unless someone like Rabbi Chanina Ben Tradiyon is the gabbay tzedaka. Tosfot s.v. elah explains that he should be trustworthy by Rabbi Chanina but it isn't a prerequisite that he is as much of a tzaddik as Rabbi Chanina. Rambam (Matanot Aniyim 9:1) and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 256:1 codify this gemara. Bet Yosef 249:6 notes that language of the Tur that the gabbay tzedaka should be wise and trustworthy like Rabbi Chanina. He writes that the minhag isn't to insist that the gabbay is wise in Torah as long as he is wise in being a gabbay of tzedaka. Igrot Moshe YD 1:144 s.v. heneh writes that a person should not give to an organization that the collectors aren't religious. Laws of Tzedakah and Maaser p. 37 agrees that one should not give to organizations that do not follow the dictates of the Torah.</ref> | # A community should establish a trustworthy gabbay to collect and distribute the communal tzedaka funds.<ref>Bava Batra 10b remarks that a person shouldn't give to a tzedaka fund unless someone like Rabbi Chanina Ben Tradiyon is the gabbay tzedaka. Tosfot s.v. elah explains that he should be trustworthy by Rabbi Chanina but it isn't a prerequisite that he is as much of a tzaddik as Rabbi Chanina. Rambam (Matanot Aniyim 9:1) and Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 256:1 codify this gemara. Bet Yosef 249:6 notes that language of the Tur that the gabbay tzedaka should be wise and trustworthy like Rabbi Chanina. He writes that the minhag isn't to insist that the gabbay is wise in Torah as long as he is wise in being a gabbay of tzedaka. Igrot Moshe YD 1:144 s.v. heneh writes that a person should not give to an organization that the collectors aren't religious. Laws of Tzedakah and Maaser p. 37 agrees that one should not give to organizations that do not follow the dictates of the Torah.</ref> | ||
#There is a mitzvah to stand up for someone going to do a mitzvah, such as someone collecting tzedaka. If they're being paid to do the mitzvah, there is a dispute if you don't need to stand for them. If they're doing it for a mitzvah and also being paid you should stand for them.<ref>Yad Eliyahu 54 writes that if they're doing it for pay you don’t have to stand up for them since they’re doing the mitzvah for their own benefit. Kima Vhiddur p. 271 argues that the Taz 361:2 implies otherwise that one should stand for everyone going to do a mitzvah whether or not they’re being paid. Though he cites many achronim who agreed with the Yad Eliyahu including the Ikrei Hadaat YD 26:31 and Ben Ish Chai (Shana Sheniya Ki Tetsey 19). Also he cites the Derech Emunah (Matanot Aniyim, Tzion Hahalacha 9:25) based on Biur Halacha 38:8 s.v. hem that if they’re doing it for both the mitzvah and the pay you should stand for them.</ref> | #There is a mitzvah to stand up for someone going to do a mitzvah, such as someone collecting tzedaka. If they're being paid to do the mitzvah, there is a dispute if you don't need to stand for them. If they're doing it for a mitzvah and also being paid you should stand for them.<ref>Yad Eliyahu 54 writes that if they're doing it for pay you don’t have to stand up for them since they’re doing the mitzvah for their own benefit. Kima Vhiddur p. 271 argues that the Taz 361:2 implies otherwise that one should stand for everyone going to do a mitzvah whether or not they’re being paid. Though he cites many achronim who agreed with the Yad Eliyahu including the Ikrei Hadaat YD 26:31 and Ben Ish Chai (Shana Sheniya Ki Tetsey 19). Also he cites the Derech Emunah (Matanot Aniyim, Tzion Hahalacha 9:25) based on Biur Halacha 38:8 s.v. hem that if they’re doing it for both the mitzvah and the pay you should stand for them.</ref> | ||
#Even though there is a requirement that tzedaka can only be distributed by a bet din of 3 people,<ref>Bava Batra 8b, Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 256:3. </ref> today we don't require a bet din to distribute tzedaka money from a shul's tzedaka fund.<ref>Pesakim Vteshuvot 256:9 quotes Betzel Hachachma 2:36:3 and Sharei Tzedek 11:19 that the halacha that requires 3 people to distribute tzedaka only applies to a communal kupa and today we don't have that, we just have individual tzedaka funds and shul tzedaka funds for their community but not for the whole town. Therefore, they can distribute the tzedaka however they like without a bet din.</ref> | |||
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