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Maaser Kesafim origin
Question
What are the sources for taking 10% of your salary and giving it to tzedakah? Is this a must or something that is encouraged and is there a source for those that do not?
Answer
The origin of tithing ten percent from ones income – Ma’aser Ksafim – is disputable, some holds it’s a Torah commandment, some hold it’s a rabbinic commandment and some, it is a practiced custom. We hold like the last opinion.
One should remember that the mitzvah of Tzedakah is clearly from Torah it’s only the percentage that is a custom.
Therefore, those who for some reason can’t give as much as ten percent can give less.
(See Tzitz Eliezer 9, 1)

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