Practical Judaism Tzedakah

Living Moshiach | June 27, 2025

In connection to Parshas Shekalim, we should add in giving Tzedakah.
There are different levels of Tzedakah: a tenth of one’s income, a fifth, and giving all that one has to save one’s life or soul.
On Shabbos we can give food or drink etc.
The giving of a half-Shekel was for the communal sacrifices. A sacrifice symbolizes coming close to G-d by giving of oneself, giving one’s whole being to G-d.
Put all ten powers of your soul into giving – in addition to actually doing it, also think and speak about it.
Through this we hasten the Redemption, that it will come immediately and then G-d will do His “Tzedakah” of gathering all the Jewish People together back to the Holy Land!

(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Vayakhel 5752 (1992))

In connection to Parshas Shekalim, we should add in giving Tzedakah.
There are different levels of Tzedakah: a tenth of one’s income, a fifth, and giving all that one has to save one’s life or soul.
On Shabbos we can give food or drink etc.
The giving of a half-Shekel was for the communal sacrifices. A sacrifice symbolizes coming close to G-d by giving of oneself, giving one’s whole being to G-d.
Put all ten powers of your soul into giving – in addition to actually doing it, also think and speak about it.
Through this we hasten the Redemption, that it will come immediately and then G-d will do His “Tzedakah” of gathering all the Jewish People together back to the Holy Land!

(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Vayakhel 5752 (1992))

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