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#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> | #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> | ||
#If someone is entrusted with tzedaka to distribute he can't pass it off to someone else to distribute. A gabbay tzedaka, however, can do so since it was given with the knowledge that the gabbay might appoint someone else to distribute the tzedaka.<ref>Maharik 6 writes about a man who appointed his wife over a field for tzedaka that she should disburse the fruits to tzedaka. He says that she isn't allowed to give the field to someone else to deal with the tzedaka distributions since her husband wanted only her. However, if someone gives to a gabbay tzedaka the gabbay can give it to someone else to distribute since people understand that the gabbay might do so. Shulchan Aruch 257:11 codifies the Maharik. Taz 257:6 argues with the formulation of Shulchan Aruch because there's no real difference between a gabbay and anyone else. It all depends on the understanding. Shach in Nekudat Hakesef defends Shulchan Aruch that in general such is the case.</ref> | #If someone is entrusted with tzedaka to distribute he can't pass it off to someone else to distribute. A gabbay tzedaka, however, can do so since it was given with the knowledge that the gabbay might appoint someone else to distribute the tzedaka.<ref>Maharik 6 writes about a man who appointed his wife over a field for tzedaka that she should disburse the fruits to tzedaka. He says that she isn't allowed to give the field to someone else to deal with the tzedaka distributions since her husband wanted only her. However, if someone gives to a gabbay tzedaka the gabbay can give it to someone else to distribute since people understand that the gabbay might do so. Shulchan Aruch 257:11 codifies the Maharik. Taz 257:6 argues with the formulation of Shulchan Aruch because there's no real difference between a gabbay and anyone else. It all depends on the understanding. Shach in Nekudat Hakesef defends Shulchan Aruch that in general such is the case.</ref> | ||
# A person can collect tzedaka on behalf of poor people even if there is already a gabbay tzedaka collecting.<Ref>Chachmat Adam 147:24</ref> | |||
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