tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post3013210939191447123..comments2023-10-30T08:40:59.016-04:00Comments on Wolfish Musings: I Don't Like What I've BecomeBrooklynWolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03994285019137108636noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-501364495069242432022-04-06T22:06:22.897-04:002022-04-06T22:06:22.897-04:00Fabulous, what a blog it is! This web site present...Fabulous, what a blog it is! This web site presents helpful information to us, keep it up.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.totositeweb.com" title="토토사이트웹" rel="nofollow">토토사이트웹</a>totositeweb.comhttps://www.totositeweb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-42762547149291345202022-03-23T23:46:48.849-04:002022-03-23T23:46:48.849-04:00I will recommend your website to everyone. You hav...I will recommend your website to everyone. You have a very good gloss. Write more high-quality articles. 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Perhaps logical, but cold hearted and wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-70163555511055571532015-06-25T12:22:04.188-04:002015-06-25T12:22:04.188-04:00I don't bring my wallet into shul. (I heard RS...I don't bring my wallet into shul. (I heard RSZ Auerbach once said the same thing, incidentally.) I don't enjoy giving out money like this. When I've done it I don't feel like I've done something good, I feel like I'm just doing it to get it over with, and get the guy to go away. And I don't think I'm doing any good, because they are just going to keep on begging, whether you give or not. These are not people temporarily down on their luck who just need some help for the short term. So if I don't enjoy it, I don't feel I, really doing anything worthwhile, why should I give them? Out of same nebulous feeling of guilt? So I just give "the one handed shrug" to indicate truthfully that I have no money on me, and that's that. <br /><br />The tzedakah I give is done quietly at home, when no one sees me. I sit down and look at the various institutions in town, institutions out of town, alma maters, etc, and then I write out checks. I feel like I'm doing my part, and I know I'm helping good causes. That's real tzedaka. The guys who come to shul or (with occasional exceptions) who knock on the door, are just preying on the community's misplaced sense of guilt and misguided generosity.<br /><br />This is something we can learn from our gentile neighbors. There are signs up these days advising people not to give to beggars, that it doesn't help. There are better places to give money, the signs say, for those who want to do something good. They are 100% right. The people coming into shul are no different, literally no different, than the guys begging in the street. (Not all of them are winos, and really, who cares what they spend their money on? If they spent it on cigarettes its better?) It is not helping to give them, even if its just a buck. They rely on thousands of people all saying "its just a buck" to keep it going. Its a problem, and the solution ends when people begin to Just Say No.DFhttp://www.yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-68412410924130349562015-03-29T17:22:09.440-04:002015-03-29T17:22:09.440-04:00This blog post is the same regurgitated waaaa we&#...This blog post is the same regurgitated waaaa we've been subjected to for decades.<br /><br />You don't like their way of life. We get it.Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-87906633378294571352015-03-25T17:06:12.505-04:002015-03-25T17:06:12.505-04:00“All are asked to daven and say Tehillim for Tzipo...“All are asked to daven and say Tehillim for Tziporah bat Avigayil [Sassoon] and Avigayil bat Tziporah [Sassoon], who both jumped from second-floor widows to escape and were treated for burns and smoke inhalation.”Mr. Cohenhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/DerechEmet/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-53936883582791690752015-03-23T13:18:01.636-04:002015-03-23T13:18:01.636-04:00I just saw on theyeshivaworld's site where you...I just saw on theyeshivaworld's site where you mentioned that you are a recent avel. I am sorry for your loss. May your deeds be a zechus for the neshoma of the niftar and may you and your family have a nechoma.<br />HaMakom yinachem eschem b'soch shar aveilei Tzion v'Yerushalayim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-83215652857501936302015-03-16T15:30:54.875-04:002015-03-16T15:30:54.875-04:00What turns me off is when they try to flatter. Th...What turns me off is when they try to flatter. These same guys wouldn't notice me falling dead to the street in their home towns but when they need my money, suddenly I'm the second coming of Moshe Rabeinu.Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09571194550300367249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-19856905552624425362015-03-11T17:45:58.767-04:002015-03-11T17:45:58.767-04:00Beyond the issue of dismay that "you've b...Beyond the issue of dismay that "you've become suspicious"---and of course excepting cases of outright dire need---does it really behoove each & very Jew to help perpetuate a system that actively discourages personal ambition, industriousness, and plain old responsibility?<br />In some cases it enables, if not rewards, not taking charge of your own life in the most basic sense: supporting yourself & your family.<br /><br />Wanting to devote as much time as possible to learning is one thing; raising a family (typically a large one) with absolutely no means, no safety net, and no plan for the future is extremely irresponsible, and also manifests a good bit of arrogance: the implicit expectation that everyone---your in-laws, your parents, Klal Yisroel at large---owes you a living. This attitude, too, is encouraged by the many who will tell you [condescendingly] that these people are the ones in whose z'chus we all survive.jrsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-73069039991167676072015-03-09T16:49:31.714-04:002015-03-09T16:49:31.714-04:00I'll dissent. Of course, you should do your d...I'll dissent. Of course, you should do your due diligence. For $2 it probably doesn't matter, but realistically you can't give to everyone, no questions asked.tesyaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08411240806288272179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-75439649216022616712015-03-09T15:39:13.629-04:002015-03-09T15:39:13.629-04:00You're a good manYou're a good manGil Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776831546758682126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11425059.post-44754720299247865042015-03-09T13:09:05.783-04:002015-03-09T13:09:05.783-04:00Yalkut Meam Loez commentary on Kohelet [Ecclesiast...<b><i>Yalkut Meam Loez</i> commentary on <i>Kohelet</i> [Ecclesiastes], chapter 11, verse 1, quoting <i>Shevet Reuven</i> ראובן שבט:</b><br /><br />"If you help a poor person without investigating his deeds [literally, his sins], then you should be provided for abundantly by G_d, without regard to your sins."<br /><br /><b>CHRONOLOGY:</b> <i>Shevet Reuven</i> is a commentary on the Biblical Book of <i>Kohelet</i> [Ecclesiastes], which seems to have been written around 1712 CE, by Rabbi Maimon ben Reuven Abu, in Mostaganem (a port city in Algeria) during the reign of Napoleon III.Mr. Cohenhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/DerechEmet/noreply@blogger.com