Tithes - Decree on Daycare Centers
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Question
A yeshiva student blessed by the Almighty with two children, and now due to the cancellation of the daycare subsidy, is forced to pay a difference of several hundred shekels more (in my case, over 1600 additional shekels! after the daycare's consideration...) Can he pay this difference from tithe money, since all he needs to spend is only because he is a yeshiva student, and therefore our case is lighter than all the expenses of educating his young children, which we know reduces their expenses and allocates tithe from the remainder. Consider for yourself, if a fund is established to donate to such yeshiva students, would it be conceivable that it cannot be donated from tithe money? Or perhaps there is a distinction... Thank you very much.
Answer
Hello
It is not possible to calculate the expense from tithe money.
However, the expense should be deducted from the profit amount, as this is an expense so that the wife can work.
If you go into a deficit due to the expense imposed on you, you are exempt from tithing, as is the case for someone whose income does not cover their expenses.
[A fund that pays the expenses of yeshiva students will merit the mitzvah of enhanced charity. However, what a person spends on themselves, their wife, and children is not charity].