Misers No More!!!

One of the primary messages of the Rebe is that increasing in acts of goodness and kindness will hasten the coming of moshiach. since 1991 the concept of goodness and kindness has exploded through the world just try to Google random acts of goodness and kindness you Will get close to 400,000 results. there have sprung all kinds of foundations, clubs, associations, that are engaged in acts of goodness kindness.

We also know what Maimonides says that a person should always sees themselves and the world in a perfect balance and one good deed, could change the balance of the world for good. the fact that "charity" or goodness and kindness is spreading to the entire world shows us clearly that we are moving closer towards moshiach.

In addition we know that the Talmud says that when the nations of the world give charity it is a sin offering for them. meaning it kind of cleans the slate and again makes the world a more good world. after the Tsunami in 2004 the outpouring of charity was unprecedented the amount of charity the world gave was unparalleled. Now even the Saudis are starting to give charity albeit they are being shamed into it. let's hope it is a good start.... Sooner or later the entire world will be giving charity and doing acts of goodness and kindness. Either you do it on your own or circumstansnes will force you to give charity....so why not do it right the first time...

Misers No More? Saudi Arabia Pledges $500 Million to World Food Program

Friday, May 23, 2008

Two weeks after a FOX News investigation showed oil-rich Saudia Arabia had donated nothing this year to help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world's hungry, the globe's number one oil exporter is finally opening its checkbook.

The United Nations this morning told FOX that the Saudis have pledged WFP a whopping $500 million contribution in response to the urgent WFP appeal in early April for $775 million to help it cope with a crisis caused by lower international grain stocks and rising energy costs. According to WFP that threatened to put at least 100 million more people around the world on the edge of starvation.

The Saudi contribution came two weeks after FOX revealed, based on WFP donor records, that Saudi Arabia had given nothing at all to the food agency this year, despite spiraling oil prices that had brought on the food crisis.

All of OPEC — the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — had collectively given just $1.5 million, or about 1 minute and 10 seconds worth of OPEC's 2007 oil revenues, FOX disclosed.

Those revenues will be vastly greater this year due to even sharper oil-price hikes.

In noting the Saudi contribution, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that it “comes not a moment too soon, given the needs of millions of people dependent on food rations.”