Daily Tanya Thursday 4th Elul Igeres Hakodesh 10: Giving Tzedaka Without Limits

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4th Elul

❤️ 1. Essence of Teshuvah

🫀 The core of repentance is in the heart — deep regret from one’s innermost feelings awakens a hidden, transcendent Divine light.

 

🌟 2. Drawing the Light into the Worlds

⬇️ To channel that light into higher and lower worlds, there must be practical action (it’aruta d’letata).
🤝 This action takes the form of unlimited tzedakah and chesed.

 

🤲 3. Giving Without Limits

💧 Just as one gives abundant kindness to someone with nothing of their own (dal v’evyon), without measure or boundary…

✨ Hashem bestows Infinite Kindness (Rav Chesed) without limit, upon all realms.

 

🕊️ 4. Repairing Spiritual Damage

🔄 Unlimited tzedakah repairs all blemishes caused by sin, in both upper and lower worlds.
🏆 This surpasses the effect of sacrifices, which are inherently measured.

 

⚖️ 5. Tzedakah vs. Sacrifices

📖 Verse: “Doing tzedakah and justice is chosen by Hashem over a sacrifice.”
📏 Sacrifices have fixed limits; tzedakah can be infinite — making it more effective for full spiritual repair.

 

🚫 6. The One‑Fifth Limitation

💰 “One who spends (on tzedakah) should not exceed one-fifth” — applies only to:

  • Those without sins to repair
  • Or those who have already completed full atonement.

 

🩺 7. Boundless Giving for Healing the Soul

🧠 For someone still in need of repairing their soul, there is no upper limit to tzedakah — just as one would spend anything to heal their body.

📜 As the verse says: “All that a man has, he will give for his soul.”

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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