Give 🌾 💰 For The Best 🌾 Moments

Before Passover it's customary to give charity specifically to help people celebrate Passover, which has  considerably great expenses.

This fund has throughout history been knows as "Maos Chitim" wheat money, because, among other things, the funds assist families in need to buy matzos, whichb consist of wheat flower and water.

Technically, any of five kinds of grain are kosher to be used for matzos, wheat spelt rye oat or barley. The reason we specifically classify the fund as wheat money, is because when it comes to the holiday of freedom, we are meant to give the best. Not merely barley, but wheat.

Similarly, the fund is not ONLY meant to help people buy matzos but to have all of the clothing and other delicacies needed to celebrate Passover in style. 

The tears of those in need and the spirit of those who have been humbled to ask for help is where gd rests. "You are high and holy and yet you rest on those who are humble" Isaiah 57.14.

 So a gift to a Jew in need is REALLY a gift to G-d.
 The title wheat money is not ONLY a message of what generosity means towards the needy, to give others the best, it's also a message we need to take home.

When you're busy preparing for Passover and you're children ask for your attention for something SO unimportant, instead of getting annoyed, and do the Jewish guilt thing, "don't you know Passover is coming?"
We have to remember that now is not the time to ask what is important and to get annoyed, now is the time to give children toys and treats and "wheat moments" if you will, that they will cherish and remember.