Tag: tzedakah


  • Take What You Need for Today

    Parshat B’Shalach Gives You a Picture of Bitachon You Can Actually Live Parshat B’Shalach gives you a picture of bitachon you can actually live. Because right after the miracles, right after the Shira, Hashem introduces a strange system called the maan. And it is not only food. It is training. The Desert Was Hashem’s “Abundance…

  • The Half-Shekel That Saved the Jewish People

    This Shabbat, we read Parshat Shekalim, the first of the Arba Parshiyot—a reminder of the mitzvah of the half-shekel, which Bnei Yisrael gave to sustain the Communal Korbanot. But this mitzvah is far more than just a historical tax. The Gemara Yerushalmi reveals something incredible:Haman paid a sum of silver to buy the right to…

  • How Giving Time, Not Money, Builds Redemption

    The Torah Commands “וְיִקְחוּ־לִי תְּרוּמָה” — “And they shall take for Me a donation.”(Shemot 25:2) Am Yisrael had just witnessed the greatest miracles in history — Yetziat Mitzrayim, Kriyat Yam Suf, and Matan Torah. They stood at the peak of spiritual elevation. And now, Hashem asks them to give. But not just gold and silver…