Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Okay, hello everybody.

Welcome back to another week of Answering Your Shailas.

And again, as always, every time we do this, this is as a chus for our dear friend, Rabbi Jonathan Cohn.

Joko, we should have a rufuah.

Shalem, you should feel good, you should feel strong.

And we thank him so much for conceiving of this idea and of implementing it every single week, even though it is not always easy.

Good evening everybody.

So the yeshiva this year is Loni Masechas Ksubas.

There is a Gemara in Ksubas and Da'af, Samach Zayin Ambez, that tells us about the time, I think it was Marukva, was dying and that he had committed half of his money to tzedakah.

So the Gemara asks, Baran Mevazvez, Ali Mevazvez, Yosef Michomesh, are you not supposed to give more than 20% of your money to tzedakah?

And the Gemara says, no, when you're dying it's different, because the whole concern of being Mevazvez, Yosef Michomesh,

Okay, everybody, welcome back to another week of Answering Yerushalayim.

And once again, this is L'Chosra For Shalema, for Rabbi Jonathan Cohn, Yehonasan Eitan, Ben Basheva, Bracha, Yishlava For Shalema, B'Soch, Shar Chol Yisrael, and we thank him so, so much for arranging this year, each and every week, arranging all the questions.

and organizing them.

I want to start with a follow-up from last week.

You know, I do get feedback every now and then from some of the shaylas that we discussed.

So last week we discussed if a person wins a raffle for a Sefer Torah.

And I had said that l'chara depends on what the

on what the nature of the mitzvah of ksiva sefer Torah is.

Is it the mitzvah of ksiva sefer Torah, or a mitzvah to have the sefer Torah?