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  • April 16, 2015 7:01 pm at 7:01 pm #615508
    mw13
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    Would you be more likely or less likely to donate to a pushka that advertises itself as a “PROVEN SEGULAH” for “REFUAHS, YESHUAHS, PARNASAH, SHIDUCHIM, NACHAS, AND MORE”?

    April 16, 2015 11:22 pm at 11:22 pm #1072617
    golfer
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    Less

    April 17, 2015 1:23 am at 1:23 am #1072618
    👑RebYidd23
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    Much less. When I give money, I give to help people, not to magically improve my life.

    April 17, 2015 2:25 am at 2:25 am #1072619
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Nobody’s going to admit that they give more, but there’s a reason they market it that way.

    April 17, 2015 2:30 am at 2:30 am #1072620
    Joseph
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    I don’t know how it affects giving to it, but the ad was a big turn off in my eyes.

    (I also never heard of that organization previously.)

    April 17, 2015 3:11 am at 3:11 am #1072621
    screwdriverdelight
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    Nobody’s going to admit that they give more

    I guess you never read any Kupat Hair pamphlets.

    April 17, 2015 3:20 am at 3:20 am #1072622
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Well, yes, but nobody here.

    April 17, 2015 3:50 pm at 3:50 pm #1072625
    cherrybim
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    Many people believe in magic, just look at the huge success of Chabad fundraising.

    April 17, 2015 5:00 pm at 5:00 pm #1072626
    mw13
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    DaasYochid, you brought up precisely the point I was actually trying to figure out: Every person I ask tells me that this type of advertising lessens their desire to contribute to a cause. So why do these tzeddakah organizations keep doing this? Is everybody lying to me? Are the few suckers who fall for it contributing enough to make it worth it?

    Or are these organizations making a massive marketing mistake?

    April 17, 2015 6:09 pm at 6:09 pm #1072627
    apushatayid
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    Well, tzedaka taztil mimaves. The gemera says so.

    Aser bishvil shetisasher. That is not a 21st century advertising slogan.

    Arba shelach, kineged arba sheli. That is a rashi on a passuk in chumash. Not a madison avenue marketing campaign.

    Tzedaka is the only time we are allowed to “test” hashem. This is a gemara.

    do these maamarei chazal turn you off to the mitzva of tzedaka?

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