How to Avoid the Unhappiness of the Well-off[1]

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You shall tithe – surely tithe – all the produce of your planting.[2] The doubling of the verb עשר leads to the famous comment by Chazal,[3] “Tithe so that you will become rich.”[4] One of the difficult things to understand about this midrash is that it seems to clash with a maxim of Chazal elsewhere:[5] […]

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