One Minute Of Torah
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One Minute Of Torah
Counting Before Giving — The Secret of Joyful Generosity
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In the mitzvah of מעשר בהמה, the animals pass one by one under the shepherd’s rod — counted slowly, deliberately: one, two, three… until the tenth is designated for Hashem.
A vintage Chassidic insight teaches something powerful: you can only give the tenth after you’ve counted the nine.
When a person pauses to count what he has — his blessings, his resources, his abilities — giving no longer feels like loss. It feels natural. It feels possible. Generosity becomes lighter because it flows from awareness, not fear.
Scarcity tightens the hand.
Gratitude opens it.
And there is something even deeper.
When we make someone else happy — when we give, uplift, encourage, support — we are not only filling their cup. We are expanding our own.
Giving is not subtraction.
It is circulation.
When we count what we have, we give more easily.
And when we give more easily, Heaven responds in kind.
The tenth is not a loss.
It is the beginning of blessing.