I try to give everyone who asks, at least a token amount (given the state of my finances, that is ALL I can afford anyway, LOL). But I have trouble right now going up and down steps, so if someone rings my bell and I am upstairs, I will call out the window to see who it is and tell them I cannot open the door right now. they don’t typically come back later in the day. If I know someone is a charlatan (and we had a Muslim woman collecting on Fridays saying “Shabbat Shalom,” until someone discovered she was not even Jewish), i won’t give him the time of day, much less my money. We had a couple who worked one of our main streets, he at one end and she at the other, on erev Shabbos. Neither was Jewish. They too, kept saying, “For Shabbos, for Shabbos.” Rachmanim bnei rachmanim, we fall for these cons, because we cannot fathom someone would take advantage of us that way.
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