Chasidut for Bava Kamma 33:8
א"ר יוחנן משום ר"ש בן יוחאי מאי דכתיב (ישעיהו לב, כ) אשריכם זורעי על כל מים משלחי רגל השור והחמור כל העוסק בתורה ובגמילות חסדים זוכה לנחלת שני שבטים
Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said: I was once following R. Johanan for the purpose of asking him about the [above] matter. He, however, at that moment went into a toilet room. [When he reappeared and] I put the matter before him, he did not answer until he had washed his hands, put on phylacteries and pronounced the benediction.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. P.B. p. 4. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Kedushat Levi
Numbers 11,7. “and the manna was like coriander seed;” when a person gives charity to a poor person he is turned into a משפיע, a dispenser of largesse. Our sages in Vayikra Rabbah 34,8 have taught that contrary to common belief, the recipient of the handout does more for the donor than the donor has done for him. If this is true, the poor man himself is also a dispenser of largesse, as he bestows spiritual merit whereas the wealthy man giving him a handout had only provided physical sustenance.
This parable while true, does not hold true when the dispenser of the manna is the Creator, Who by His very nature dispenses spiritual food at the same time as He hands out the manna. Doing tzedakah, performing charitable deeds, is equivalent to planting a seed in the ground which will provide others with sustenance in the future, something that we already learned from Avraham in Genesis 22,33 when he planted an orchard.
This parable while true, does not hold true when the dispenser of the manna is the Creator, Who by His very nature dispenses spiritual food at the same time as He hands out the manna. Doing tzedakah, performing charitable deeds, is equivalent to planting a seed in the ground which will provide others with sustenance in the future, something that we already learned from Avraham in Genesis 22,33 when he planted an orchard.
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