and I will never forget the moment when I bumped into the ba’al tzedakah in the “cut fruit” section!! A luxury, for sure, but it helped me stay on my diet. Immediately, this intuitive tzadik said to me, “These things make our lives much simpler,”(or similar to that) and disappeared!! That is the kind of person whom we should emulate in cases like this.”
(Welcome back, Eclipse). That IS the kind of person we should emulate, you are right. People need to be sensitive to not only the financial, but emotional upheaval in someone’s life when they are low on funds. If they took the money and went to Belmont, I would feel differently,though.