Alumni can really help WITS financial future through the automatic monthly program. And you can help yourselves too. The Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev says, "My friends ask me how I can earn so much money. There's only one answer. Financial advisors are important and good business sense doesn't hurt. It helps to have loyal employees too. But the main key to success is giving maaser. As Chazal say, 'Aser b'kidei shetitasher, give a tenth of your money and you will become rich.' It isn't a game. It's a formula that proves itself.
In Shemos 30:14-15 it says, "Everyone who passes through the census, from twenty years of age and up, shall give the portion of Hashem,. The wealthy shall not increase and the destitute shall not decrease from half a shekel- to give the portion of Hashem to atone for your souls." As the Artscroll Chumash notes, "There is a great power in the unity of a nation striving toward a common goal. When everyone joins in a constructive cause, the spiritual merits of all the individuals become merged, as it were, so that not only their funds, but their personal attainments come together to assist one another." Let us all join together.
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