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Created page with "'''Bedek Habayis''' is an organization entrusted with the maintenance of the 770 building. == Bedek Habayis == The organization was established at the request of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka (the Rebbe's wife), in the year 5735 (1975). During that period, the fund also took care of the library of K'vod K'dushas Admu"r HaRayatz, with Reb Chaim Baruch Halberstam in charge of the fund's management and activities. In the past, the fund was managed by Rabbi Aaron Blasofsky, Rabbi..." |
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Many times, those in charge of the box would empty it before the Rebbe passed by the box, and afterward sold the coins that the Rebbe had dropped into it. | Many times, those in charge of the box would empty it before the Rebbe passed by the box, and afterward sold the coins that the Rebbe had dropped into it. | ||
An additional Bedek Habayis box is in the floor corridor. | An additional Bedek Habayis box is in the floor corridor.[[File:קופת בדק.jpg|thumb|The additional Bedek Habayis box is in the floor corridor.]]Another box is currently located in the floor corridor. | ||
Another box is currently located in the floor corridor. | |||
==== The Importance of the Tzedakah Box ==== | ==== The Importance of the Tzedakah Box ==== | ||
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* '''<nowiki/>'And You Shall See It and Remember'''' - The box will serve as a reminder about giving tzedakah. Additionally: since tzedakah is equivalent to all the mitzvos and brings the redemption closer, seeing the box reminds one about fulfilling all the mitzvos of the Torah. | * '''<nowiki/>'And You Shall See It and Remember'''' - The box will serve as a reminder about giving tzedakah. Additionally: since tzedakah is equivalent to all the mitzvos and brings the redemption closer, seeing the box reminds one about fulfilling all the mitzvos of the Torah. | ||
* '''Accessibility''' - Since it is customary to give tzedakah every day, and not every day does a person in need or a case for tzedakah present itself, therefore placing a coin in the box allows one to fulfill the mitzvah with beautification every single day. | * '''Accessibility''' - Since it is customary to give tzedakah every day, and not every day does a person in need or a case for tzedakah present itself, therefore placing a coin in the box allows one to fulfill the mitzvah with beautification every single day. | ||
The special importance of affixing the box to the wall can be seen in the talk of Tzom Gedaliah 5749 (1988), in which the Rebbe addressed a 'halachic' question of how to conduct oneself when staying temporarily in another house regarding affixing the box, and so the Rebbe said: "They should attach a box to the wall of the house where they are staying in such a manner that on Shabbos and Yom Tov it would be forbidden to remove it from the wall, and thus the box will be part of the house as it is with a box fixed with a nail, but in a way that after they remove the box no mark will remain on the wall, and when they return to their home they should take the box with them and affix it in their home, thus retroactively clarifying that the reason they did not affix it previously in their home was because they were not in their home." | The special importance of affixing the box to the wall can be seen in the talk of Tzom Gedaliah 5749 (1988), in which the Rebbe addressed a 'halachic' question of how to conduct oneself when staying temporarily in another house regarding affixing the box, and so the Rebbe said: "They should attach a box to the wall of the house where they are staying in such a manner that on Shabbos and Yom Tov it would be forbidden to remove it from the wall, and thus the box will be part of the house as it is with a box fixed with a nail, but in a way that after they remove the box no mark will remain on the wall, and when they return to their home they should take the box with them and affix it in their home, thus retroactively clarifying that the reason they did not affix it previously in their home was because they were not in their home." | ||