ARK Project: Noah’s Ark Charity Boxes

School children in the El Paso, Texas, community are learning to give charity and do more acts of kindness. They are doing this through the A.R.K. project, which features Noah’s ark charity boxes. (A charity box is called a pushka or tzedakah box in Hebrew.)

A note should be made about a statement in the movie. A suggestion was made for parents to give their child coins to put in his or her charity box. It was said not to give it as “allowance” money, but only as charity. However, the Rebbe taught that it’s better for parents to let their child earn an “allowance”. For example, they can earn a certain amount every week for doing chores. Along with this, train the child to give a part of it (e.g., in the range of 10% to 20%) as charity.

In this way, the child learns (a) responsibility, (b) managing money, and (c) giving charity from his or her own money. Example: The parents give an allowance of 1 dollar per week, from which the child gives 10 cents (10%) as charity, which can be 1 or a few pennies to put into the charity box every day of the week for Gentile children (or over the 6 weekdays for Jews).

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