The Jewish Education to ensure the Legacy of the Torah through Tzedakah Mitzvah

According to the Talmud, "The Tzedaka is as important as all the other commandments put together."

Our communal responsibility to ensure the Legacy of the Torah of the Jewish people depends on our commitment to supporting Jewish education.

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Jewish education is the primary foundation of our communities. We assure the community vitality and resilience through the Hebrew studies of our children, since they enter small to study in a kinder garden through the entire cycle of studies to the Yeshiva in children and Midrashot for girls. And those programs need our support.

Consider the Torah portion "Parashat Ki Tisa, Exodus 30:11 - 34:35." God commands Moses to take a census of the Jewish people so that each Jew pays a half shekel tax to maintain the central Jewish learning institution, the Mishkan (Tabernacle). So The Mishkan, is it a Jewish school? Absolutely, since it was there that the entire Jewish community came together to learn the word of God. And that first school was supported by everyone. The Torah registers:

All who enter the registers, from the age of twenty, will give the Lord's offering: the rich will not pay more and the poor will not pay less than half the shekel when they make the Lord's offering ... (Exodus 30: 14)

So vital was the need for everyone to contribute to tzedakah (funds for public assistance, literally "justice") that, in the words of Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (12th century Spain), the contribution "expiates for a soul".

And precisely because of the intention of giving, because it is only through the support of the community that we achieve a Legacy of the Torah of the Jewish people, this verse of the Torah imposes an unexpected obligation on the poor. For this verse insists that the poor can not give less than half a shekel. According to "Rambam" Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, "even a poor person who lives entirely from tzedakah should also give tzedakah".

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