Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

And that's why it's not a kiyum, ha-mitzvah of tzedakah, it's a minhag.

If it's about simchas yom tov, you could debate what creates a level of simcha.

L'chaora, it would work either way, with money or with chitim, to have a sense of simcha.

But one could argue maybe that simcha is only in your eating your own matzah, knowing that you've allowed someone else to eat matzah.

So maybe if you gave money, that wouldn't give you that same sense of simcha.

Another nafkamina, the Ramah writes in Simra, You don't have to give tzedakah if you don't have kedeh parnasasov.

You don't have enough for yourself.

For your own Shabbos and Yom Tov meals, you have to even borrow money.

But you don't have to give tzedakah if you don't have what you need.

If you look in Tulsa, he discusses that idea of borrowing money for your own Shabbos and Yom Tov meals.

Now, if it's part of your own mitzvah simcha, maybe you do need to borrow money for it.

Because for your own Shabbos and Yom Kippur meals, you need to borrow money.

If you're not fulfilling your mitzvah of simcha, and therefore your own meal is worthless to you unless you took care of somebody else, maybe you would even need to borrow for it, as counterintuitive as that may be.

But if it's a din in tzedakah, so if you don't have Kedai Parnassaso, you're potter from giving the tzedakah.

If it's a tax, it's hard to imagine that they would impose a tax on somebody who doesn't have anything for himself.

Another nafka mina might be, the Beis Yosef in Yerudeas in Ration Chess discusses whether one could be Yotzei the mitzvah of tzedakah with a matana al-menas lahachsir.

L'choraf, it's about Simchas Yom Tov, it should not work as a matana al-menas lahachsir, and even if it's a particular tax that was imposed on the...

And the community, it would have to follow the gedarim of however that tax was originally imposed.

A fourth nafgamina, is there a maila of matan b'seser, of giving secretly?

For those who are doing Daf Yomi, today's Daf Yomi, that if you give a Matanah to somebody else, so you're supposed to let them know.