Rabbi Akiva Shavuaton: From Pauper to Anti-Welfare Crusader?

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April 26 2021
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58min 43s
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:
Tzedakah 
Machshava:
Emunah 

References: Nedarim: 50A ,  Ketuvot: 62B ,  Ketuvot: 63A ,  Pesachim: 112A ,  Nedarim: 50B ,  Chagiga: 9B ,  Berachot: 60B ,  Berachot: 61B ,  Bava Batra: 10A  

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Rabbi Akiva spent much of his life as a pauper, before becoming fabulously wealthy. How could he have said that poverty is a beautiful adornment for a Jew, and how could he have told his son not to pursue tzedakah even if he needed it for Shabbat?

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Ariel and Breindy Lewis l'zecher nishmas אליהו בן מרדכי and by the Price Family in memory of Dr. Clifton Price, Akiva ben Avraham, whose yahrzeit is the 19th of Iyar and by a very good friend to wish mazel tov to David and Bridget Silverberg of Alon Shvut upon their gematria י-ה-ו-ה wedding anniversary and also upon the Bar Mitzvah of their dear son, Yonatan Moshe