Giving Money to Charity

When we talk about being selfish and doing it for ourselves, what about people who give money to charity? What about people like sylvia bloom? You probably didn't know sylvia was a legal secretary in new york city. She lived to be more than 95 years old. When she died, in her will, she gave eight point two million dollars to charity. Why would some one do this? What motivates us to be generous? The scholar mimonides tried to put together a hierarchyf the goodness of charity. It turns out that most of the money goes to hospitals and colleges,. institutions that really don't need the money. Because you can get a building named after