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Reb צבי אלימלך asked “Why don’t we make a ברכה before giving צדקה, the way we make ברכות on everything else?” He answered: “Because if we did so, a poor person could starve to death before we finish the ברכה. And if the בעל הבית is a חסיד, he would first have to go to the מקוה. Then he would have to recite a lengthy לשם יחוד. By the time he got through the preliminaries, the poor fellow would probably have dropped dead!”

06/10/2021