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story is told of Binyamin HaTzaddik, who was the supervisor of his community’s
Tzedakah fund. Once, when there was a shortage of food, a woman came to him and
said, “Rabbi, feed me!” He replied, “I swear that there is no more money left
in the Tzedakah fund.” She said, “If you do not feed me, a woman and her seven
children will die.” So he fed her from his own money. -Baba Batra 11a
If help is needed we are the arms of God, no one else.
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