Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: fundraising follow-up Message-ID: <1287@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 12:14:22 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1287 Posted: Tue Dec 11 12:14:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 00:37:12 EST References: <1776@ucf-cs.UUCP> <42700009@csd2.UUCP> Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Lines: 24 Summary: In article <42700009@csd2.UUCP> meth@csd2.UUCP writes: > the concept of an appeal on those days when 'yizkor' is said in shul comes >from SHULCHAN ARUCH, YOREH DE'AH 249:16, in the RAMO. paraphrased into english, >he says : that which people obligate themselves to give tzedakah 'for' ('avur) >the dead (i.e., in their memory) at the times of saying yizkor, is an >old/ancient custom (minhag vatikin), and it helps for the souls of those >departed ones. > the TAZ says that the source of this halachah is ORACH CHAIM 621:6, in the >RAMO; and that it is based on that which the BEIS YOSEF brings in the name of >the MORDECHAI; and that the reason for this is based on the ROKEACH 217. > >-------- > > asher meth > allegra!cmcl2!csd2!meth It seems a bit of a logical leap to go from the quoted passage to any formalized raising of money for the Synagogue. All the passage does is to recommend that individuals should give tzedakah at athe time of Yizkor. They can do this in many ways, and money given to the synagogue organization is not necessarily tzedakah. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison