Rosh Shashanah

The merit of charity - Tsedakah saves from death

There's a nice story in Chadrei Chadarim about a grocery store owner in Bnei Brak who was approached by a young boy last Friday with a note from his father asking the owner to give the boy some sweets so that the children in the family would have a joyous Shabbos. Furthermore, the father wrote that there were 13 children in the family and that they were in dire straits. In the merit of the act of charity that the owner would perfom, the father blessed him with good health, nachas and success.
The store owner did not hesitate to fill a bag with sweets and to hand it to the elated boy. Shortly after, the man closed the store and was involved in a serious accident on his way home in which he emerged unscathed. When the police came and asked him for his driver's license, the man pulled out his wallet and found the note that the boy had delivered to him.
The man understood what had transpired, took a cab back to his store and filled a bag of groceries for the needy family. When a gadol who lives on the street where the store is located heard the story, he proclaimed that there was no doubt that the man was saved from the accident because of the mitzvah he had just performed.

צדקה תציל ממוות
Charity saves from death
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