Reply To: Getting married and no money

I just wanted to add a different perspective to this discussion. Hamodia recently ran an article about collecting tzedakah from the collector’s point of view. In the article, there were a some statements, such that a family got into debt because he didn’t want his kids to know they had know money and to give them what their friends have. The writer of the article in a subsequent issue responded to a letter writer who offered alternatives to going around collecting, and the writer stated that it was actually a mitzvah for the collector to collect to give people the zchus to give tzedakah.