Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Charity Message-ID: <1282@akgua.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:19:38 EST Article-I.D.: akgua.1282 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:19:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 05:40:04 EST References: <695@whuxlm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 12 I think the critical difference is that taxes are always assumed to be extracted by force (of law at least) while charity is assumed to be a freewill offering of your wealth. Doesn't the tithe belong to God under Jewish Law ? What I mean is Jews don't give their tithe money to the Red Cross do you ? Would it be channeled through your congregation ? Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}