When Less is More - Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein

the talmud in hulen has an interesting description of how we're supposed to spend our money the gemara tells us that when you expend expend more than you have for your wife and children but for yourself only exactly what you need question is why if you don't have the money for your wife and children then don't spend it and if you could spend more then why can't you spend more on yourself [Music] revits and machis allah shalom asked her children if you have a hundred dollars and you give ten dollars as our custom dictates for my sir to give a tenth to poor people how much money do you have at the end i would have answered ninety dollars rebecca said you're wrong what you have is ten the other ninety you're going to spend but the ten that you give away to someone else that stays with you forever in the thought of hasidus a person could receives god's bounty in a utensil the nephesh describes that god provides wisdom as well as we could add material wealth based on the utensil that we've prepared but what if we're not a utensil what if we raise ourselves to the point that we are a pipe that what hakka sparkle what god gives us we don't take for ourselves but we funnel we give to others that stays with us forever and then god continues to give and to give and to give when it comes to the blessing of what one shares with others then you could spend more than what you have however if you're going to be utensil and receive make sure that the only amount that you spend is exactly what you have a pipe a person who turns himself into a pipe the blessing is endless but we take for ourselves that we get what we need and not that which is remember when we give 10 out of 100 what we really hold on