The Power of Humility

Pursuing Tzedakah and Chessed

Rav Yitzchak said: Why does it say (Mishlei 21:21), “He who pursues charity and kindness will find life, charity, and honor”? Does this mean that someone who pursues tzedakah will afterward find himself in need of tzedakah?! The real meaning is regarding anyone who pursues tzedakah in order to give it to the poor – meaning that although he does not have any money to give to the poor, if he persists and persuades others to give it, then Hakadosh Baruch Hu will give him money so that he will be able to give tzedakah himself.

(Bava Basra 9a)