Tzedaka and pushkas

[mamamoomoo]

I was just wondering what the best method of teaching a kid to give tzedaka is, to instill in them the love of this mitzva

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[trempnvt]

We don't have any...I wouldn't even know where to send the money if I had one. Nowadays I think most people give their tzedaka either through the house or out on the street (to collecting people/organizations). I don't think they're necessary at all, they just look nice in picture books :P

[happy_nomad]

I think it's important, although we also don't have one right now. It's good to have because there's a special importance to giving tzedaka every day. And for chinuch, because kids don't see the bigger stuff (like donations through hora'ot keva

[teacup9]

I have a pushka and there is one at playgroup simply because my son loves it. I should take him with me one day to drop it off though, because I also give clothes and food to the same organization. I also never have any change especially when I need it for the meter or when my son would like it to ride quarter rides, because he regularly gets a hold of my purse and takes my change.

[chanab]

not everything you do to be mechanech your child he has to understand. Does he understand (really understand) that when you sing the words of tefila, you are talking to Hashem the King of Kings? Does he even understand the concept of Hashem?Perhaps you shouldn´t daven? I believe that everytime you put a coin in the pushka its a separate mitzva and I think it was the Baal Shem Tov who said that the noise of the coins causes a (positive)noise on high.That is why Erev yom Kipur there is the custom of dropping coins for tzedaka into plates so they should make a "noise". We have lots of pushkas. as per Chabad custom I have one nailed into the kitchen wall and try to give a few coins when I prepare a meal(I often forget, though) and into the walls of the kids room. Its also customary to put a coin into a pushka before davening and bentching licht.

[alaria_lyon]

I am not Orthodox, but I want to thank you for explaining the Kol Nidre appeal that conservative synagogues do every year. Since I was raised to not deal in money on Yom Kippur, I always found it very odd that Kol Nidre was precisely when the synagogues asked for money the most. Now I understand the custom and I think it is beautiful as you do it. But I am still a little confused about dropping coins on Kol Nidre - is the exchange of money happening prior to sundown?

[chanab]

The dropping of coins that I am referring to is not at all on YK itself, but on the EREV YK, ie the day before. The concept of tzedaka perhaps on YK has to do with the saying "Tzedaka tatzil mimavet" Tzedaka saves from death.