Sublime

9He who loves money will not be sated with money, and he who loves wealth will have no crop. This, too, is mere breath.

Many people ask me for a simple definition of bitachon. Many translate it simply as trust, but more accurately, it is security. Bitachon is not merely trust in Hashem, but the secure feeling a person has when he or she knows that they're in good hands – in Hashem's hands.

In order to break your appetite for riches you must give charity. The harsh anger which hangs over the world will be dissipated, and God’s providence will be drawn over the whole world. Through giving charity the force of love and kindness is brought into the world; the Messiah is revealed, and the Holy Temple, which is itself the revelation of the

8 So the king gave command, and they made a chest, and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD. 9A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 10All the leaders and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the

the LORD against you, and you would incur guilt. 10Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. 11Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, “Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.

Now, once a person makes a pledge to give a present to a poor person, by contrast, he is bound by it and it cannot be retracted. Seemingly, since giving the Levites tithes is a mitzvah like giving charity to the poor, such a promise should also be binding.

Hessed is the loyalty I owe to those who are members of my family—and a covenantal society is one in which all citizens form a single extended family, as

It is a pious quality not to accept presents, but rather to trust in G-d that He will satisfy his needs, as it is written:51 “And one who loathes presents shall live.”52

Noah a tzaddik im peltz, “a righteous man in a fur coat.” There are two ways of keeping warm on a cold night. You can wear a fur coat or light a fire. Wear a fur coat and you warm only yourself. Light a fire and you warm others. We are supposed to light a fire.