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Cash Advance Tzedakah?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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talk more about the cash advance I have at least a half a dozen lectures about the cash advance business it's uh you know and a person can watch those lectures there many sources from the Tor from the prophets from the writings from the the oral Tora the T from the that discuss this predatory business and how much uh damage it's caused is over over uh the centuries it's always been a uh thorn in our side as a nation uh when Jewish people get into lending business even though prohibited it between Jews and Jews and even uh uh prohibited between Jews and non-jews when it's a a non-jew that's uh doing is favorable to you and it's a non-jew that uh uh you're planning on overcharging you know these things are are have never been permitted but unfortunately people get blind when it comes to money and uh they uh they don't look they don't look uh at the right places they don't learn the right things and they end up uh making critical mistakes that not only cause damage to other people but it causes damage to anyone that's involved in it uh and anyone that is benefiting from the cash advance business uh is going to end up losing uh much more than theyve ever gained much more than they've ever gained that's why when people tell me uh you know I've had guys from the cash advance business that have watched my lectures uh contact me and ask questions and so on some of them have actually been nice people uh that uh ended up leaving the cash advance business some of them are too addicted to it and stayed in but you know they're uh uh they're trying to uh to do good things and think hopefully that's going to help them which it's not but uh some of them have really been obnoxious either way some of them uh the ones that are in the middle have asked me Rabbi so is it since you're so against the cash advance business uh is it okay if I donate to you and uh I always tell them please don't donate a dollar to me if it's coming from the cash advance business please don't donate that money to me uh I I don't want you to donate a single penny to our organization if it's coming from there if it's coming from something else you made money in real estate you made money in the stock market you made money from a different business that's kosher no problem but if you make money from the cash advance business please do not donate don't uh destroy the kadha that our organization has with your uh uh with your impure money we don't want any of it and all of the people that are benefiting from it even the ones that are receiving donations from it knowingly that it's coming from there uh and they're not telling people to leave that business they'll also end up losing uh they're also going to end up losing it's not it's not just the wicked people that are making the money by doing this it's also the people that are benefiting from uh because sometimes uh when when you know these types of people that are in crooked businesses uh you know they they uh they have like a a conscious they're that's calling them telling them to maybe stop they silence that conscience when they see that the uh you know the the uh Rabbi uh or other types of uh leaders within the community are uh resp respecting them and accepting uh their support without saying anything bad about it they feel like oh if it was so bad they would say something and since they're not only not saying anything they're actually you know encouraging me to donate even more then they feel like they're not doing anything bad so that's why they become Partners to the crime they become Partners to the crime and eventually they'll get punished also and this is going to be a tragedy but you know somebody goes against God that's what happens we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Tora and could lead to CH hasem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew