Hi Diana,
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All the best!
2. Diana
7/17/2022
I have been giving Chomesh for almost two years now and I am losing money. I have followed the rules about giving to a family member who studies Torah and who really needs it because they don’t have any other source of income. On June 30th I had a certain amount in my savings, and today I have $586.51 less than what I had on June 30th. The promise of Chomesh is that it’s the only thing where we can test G-d to see if he will send us a fortune (in money, not in other things). This is obviously not happening with me and it’s in fact going the opposite way. I am beginning to think that all of the jajamim who wrote about this are wrong. I feel like I was falsely led to believe that I would increase my monetary wealth by giving Chomesh but that never happened. I feel desperate and I feel like a fool. I don’t regret helping my relative because they really need it, but this is causing me not to be able to save money for my old age or in case I lose my job. I am 56 and there are not that many job opportunities for someone my age. I have enquired about this with several rabbis but nobody has an answer. I beg you to please help me make sense of this and if you don’t know the answer please refer me to someone who does. The promise of wealth is very clear that it is for monetary wealth, not health or other things. Those are wonderful blessings which I appreciate very much, but I started givig Chomesh to increase my monetary wealth. Thank you.
3. Brian Baruch
4/02/2019
Don’t calculate the minimum
Instead of taking 10% of what's left after the first 10%. Give 20% of the start amount. 5000Nis makes 1000. Baruch HaShem. Give with joy, HaShem Jireh, He provides and blesses everyday, merciful is He. "Hashem rules this world in a manner that the more one gives the more livelihood he will receive. Our sages say (tractate Shabbat, 151), "The more one takes pity upon others, so Heaven will take pity upon him." Yeverechecha, Shalom
4. Brian Baruch
4/02/2019
Instead of taking 10% of what's left after the first 10%. Give 20% of the start amount. 5000Nis makes 1000. Baruch HaShem. Give with joy, HaShem Jireh, He provides and blesses everyday, merciful is He. "Hashem rules this world in a manner that the more one gives the more livelihood he will receive. Our sages say (tractate Shabbat, 151), "The more one takes pity upon others, so Heaven will take pity upon him." Yeverechecha, Shalom
5. Alice
3/02/2015
Question on the calculation of chomesh
Does one donate 20% of the amount, in this example, 5000 nis? Or does one donate 10%, leaving 4500 nis and then another 10%, which would now be 450nis, in total 950nis for maaser and chomesh?
6. Alice
3/02/2015
Does one donate 20% of the amount, in this example, 5000 nis? Or does one donate 10%, leaving 4500 nis and then another 10%, which would now be 450nis, in total 950nis for maaser and chomesh?
7/18/2022
Hi Diana,
Please write another Comment here with your email address. It will not be posted, but it will give us a way to contact you with a reply.
All the best!
7/17/2022
I have been giving Chomesh for almost two years now and I am losing money. I have followed the rules about giving to a family member who studies Torah and who really needs it because they don’t have any other source of income. On June 30th I had a certain amount in my savings, and today I have $586.51 less than what I had on June 30th. The promise of Chomesh is that it’s the only thing where we can test G-d to see if he will send us a fortune (in money, not in other things). This is obviously not happening with me and it’s in fact going the opposite way. I am beginning to think that all of the jajamim who wrote about this are wrong. I feel like I was falsely led to believe that I would increase my monetary wealth by giving Chomesh but that never happened. I feel desperate and I feel like a fool. I don’t regret helping my relative because they really need it, but this is causing me not to be able to save money for my old age or in case I lose my job. I am 56 and there are not that many job opportunities for someone my age. I have enquired about this with several rabbis but nobody has an answer. I beg you to please help me make sense of this and if you don’t know the answer please refer me to someone who does. The promise of wealth is very clear that it is for monetary wealth, not health or other things. Those are wonderful blessings which I appreciate very much, but I started givig Chomesh to increase my monetary wealth. Thank you.
4/02/2019
Don’t calculate the minimum
Instead of taking 10% of what's left after the first 10%. Give 20% of the start amount. 5000Nis makes 1000. Baruch HaShem. Give with joy, HaShem Jireh, He provides and blesses everyday, merciful is He. "Hashem rules this world in a manner that the more one gives the more livelihood he will receive. Our sages say (tractate Shabbat, 151), "The more one takes pity upon others, so Heaven will take pity upon him." Yeverechecha, Shalom
4/02/2019
Instead of taking 10% of what's left after the first 10%. Give 20% of the start amount. 5000Nis makes 1000. Baruch HaShem. Give with joy, HaShem Jireh, He provides and blesses everyday, merciful is He. "Hashem rules this world in a manner that the more one gives the more livelihood he will receive. Our sages say (tractate Shabbat, 151), "The more one takes pity upon others, so Heaven will take pity upon him." Yeverechecha, Shalom
3/02/2015
Question on the calculation of chomesh
Does one donate 20% of the amount, in this example, 5000 nis? Or does one donate 10%, leaving 4500 nis and then another 10%, which would now be 450nis, in total 950nis for maaser and chomesh?
3/02/2015
Does one donate 20% of the amount, in this example, 5000 nis? Or does one donate 10%, leaving 4500 nis and then another 10%, which would now be 450nis, in total 950nis for maaser and chomesh?