The Importance of Proximity and Material

The obligation to do good is not as clear cut as the obligation to not do evil, he says. We have to use prudence that I could spend money on this or I could spending money on something else and use the other money towards something that's good,. But since we can always do more good, we don't want to be overly harsh on ourselves. So one thing we can do is in our monthly budgets, set a target goal for charitable giving.