Reply To: giving tzedakah to aniyim who smoke

im sorry if some are offended by this comment. this thread sounds more like “finding reasons not to give tzedaka” than anything else.

i think the reality is that the responses are trying to make it seem that that was the purpose of the thread. the op’s intent did not give me that impression at all,

im sorry if my post came that way my problem is that i don’t usually have cash on me (i don’t make a lot of money as is) and i at times i feel bad when i can’t give, so when i do have money and theres a certain amount of people collecting i want to make sure i’m giving to people who use it correctly

however interjection has a good point

Why should their family lose out?

i hear, however how do i know he has a family to provide for, he doesn’t walk around with a paper who he’s collecting for

and while on that point there’s people that don’t gett a hechesher from the vaad because their story doesn’t match up, so in that case why should their family lose out?