Teaching a boy or girl to donate of their own money to another, (“[money] with which one could buy sustenance for life [i.e., food]”), and especially teaching [the child] to perform acts of gemilus chassadim with his body [such as helping out another, or giving of his time] – all this ingrains in a child the attributes of humility and bittul. ... (Likkutei Sichos, vol. 16, p. 626) |