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✨Adopt a family → Rivnitz.com/Purim

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✨Adopt a family → Rivnitz.com/Purim

Rabbi Landau teaches ✨Adopt a family → Rivnitz.com/Purim.

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✨Adopt a family → Rivnitz.com/Purim

Does the poor man on the street deserve your money?

Honestly, maybe not.

He may have made bad choices.
And you know it.

But this week you're going to walk up to G-d
and ask for things you didn't earn either.

A deal to close.
A body that stays healthy.
Children that turn out okay.

You want grace.
You want the hand that opens
not because you were perfect
but because He's generous.

So the moment you stand over someone
calculating whether he deserves your help,
you've just set the standard
by which you'll be judged.

On Purim the law is simple:
whoever stretches out his hand, you give.
No questions. No investigation.

Because we're not running a merit system.
We're creating a world where people receive beyond what they earned.

We need to live in that world.
Because we're in it too.

You're right. He probably doesn't deserve it.
Neither do you.

Give anyway.

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