Calculating Maaser and Deducting Expenses - Laws of Tzedakah & Maaser (28)

00:00 - Intro 00:13 - Sefer Shmiras Haloshon: Infinite Merit 09:33 - Other Practical Applications of Deducting Business Related Equity From Maaser 26:37 - Deducting Depreciation From Maaser 33:28 - Deducting Educational Expenses to Increase Business Acumen From Maaser 37:43 - Deducting Expenses for Possible Business Deal From Maaser 42:05 - Deducting Depreciation From Maaser (continued) 48:15 - Question: Yichud issue with the doctor of opposite gender? 51:43 - Question: Is fast of Esther kept according to the time of Israel? 52:38 - Question: Should one kill their sensuality even in private? 53:55 - Question: Delaying conversion and punishment? 1:00:08 - Question: Is the wife allowed to exercise in front of husband when she is niddah? 1:01:20 - Question: Pirkei Avot, Respected religious individual and occasional lapses? 1:08:43 - Question: Tzaraas, allergies and delay of giyur? 1:10:55 - Question: Rewarding children in proper ways? 1:13:39 - Question: Women singing when crossing the Yam Suf? 1:16:51 - Question: Is the wife allowed to exercise in front of husband when she is niddah? (continued) 1:17:15 - Question: Rebuke from Yaakov to Reuven, Rebuke community of convert? 1:21:05 - Question: Giving sacrifices for having relations with a married slave? 1:27:45 - Question: Is spending long time in picking item overindulgence in materialism? 1:29:30 - Question: Giving sacrifices for having relations with a married slave? (continued) 1:35:24 - Question: If I like someone’s middos but not attracted to the person’s appearance, should I proceed with shidduch? 1:41:34 - Question: Rebuke from Yaakov to Reuven, Rebuke community of convert? (continued) 1:53:21 - Question: Giving sacrifices for having relations with a married slave? (continued) 1:54:34 - Question: To what extent should the wife beautify herself for the husband? 1:58:58 - Question: Rebuke from Yaakov to Reuven, Rebuke community of convert? (continued) 2:04:39 - Question: To what extent should the wife beautify herself for the husband? (continued) 2:06:27 - Question: Giving sacrifices for having relations with a married slave? (continued) 2:11:27 - Question: Forbidden to do business transaction during the first year of marriage? 2:12:25 - Question: Are non-Jewish kings allowed to use eunuch for service? 2:13:22 - Question: Forbidden to do business transaction during the first year of marriage? (continued) 2:14:44 - Question: Spiritual tiredness since converting to Judaism? 2:21:36 - Question: To what extent should the wife beautify herself for the husband? (continued) 2:23:05 - Question: Spiritual tiredness since converting to Judaism? (continued) 2:31:20 - Outro --- Chazal taught us, “Three things can avert evil decree: Teshuvah, Tefillah (prayers), and Tzedakah.” While many are comfortably numb in their illusion and fail to see the need for Teshuvah, and some pray habitually like a robot, we may feel fortunate that at least Am Israel is still generous in tzedakah. Things are not too bad in the end. However, giving is not the only thing that matters. How and Where are the keys. When one is unlearned, he can easily assume that he fulfilled his obligation when he did not. Or worst yet, his well-intended donation may go to the wrong place and transform from mitzvah to averah. Sometimes, giving tzedakah even becomes a weapon from Satan himself to recruit soldiers and gather more sins instead of merit. When people lax in observing the entire Torah and use tzedakah to appease their conscience; when instead of helping the needy, they write checks to purchase kavod (honor); when they ignore the needs of poor Torah scholars but spend a fortune on the local Purim and Channukah parties fulled of immodesty and arayos; are these the mitzvah of tzedakah HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants? Til when will people fool themselves with the self-righteous mitzvah to pacify their spiritually-deprived souls? If we are unlearned and fail to be responsible for our actions, who will save our souls and avert the horrible decrees upon us? Fortunately, we don't have to figure out how and where to fulfill this precious mitzvah alone. In the halachos series “The Laws of Tzedakah And Maaser”, Rabbi Lev Leib Lerner will guide us to acquire a clear and comprehensive understanding of our obligation of charity according to the holy Torah. Based on the same-name sefer by Rabbi Shimon Taub Shlit”a, the series presents a thorough yet easily understandable approach to dissecting the halachos. From the requirement of tithing, who to give charity, to the priority list of charity receivers and vows of donation, all daily questions regarding tzedakah and maaser are artfully presented and answered. Join BeEzrat HaShem. Learn with Rabbi Lev Leib Lerner. Study “The Laws of Tzedakah and Maaser.” Leave no doubt in this crucial mitzvah and avert the decree to save our souls.