Are you truly dedicated to your profession? Absolutely enjoy what you are doing and your clients are getting excellent results, however no matter how hard you attempt your checking account does not reflect your efforts? Well you are not alone. It's truly common, especially with health care and support experts.
Offering can be done in so many methods. It is not only a financial thing. The Rambam lists different obligations, formats and structures of importance of charity. On the highest level one gives somebody a job - so that he can take care of himself - without the need to constantly humiliate himself requesting for charity from others. Within this level is likewise giving a loan to another. Here one allows another to experiment and grow in his own life having the product requires to attain his goals on his own.
The Torah teaches us that the best thing we can do is to make ourselves to G-d, like oxen are to the yoke. Whichever instructions the yoke points the ox, so it goes. The Torah is the supreme yoke! In truth, when one recites the reading of the Shema two times a day, we are stated to be "Accepting upon ourselves the yoke of the kingdom of paradise!" Maybe it might appear like we are restraining ourselves, becoming robots, or even worse yet - servants (in the conventional sense of the word,) to G-d. It may seem like after all is stated and done, we're becoming zombies to G-d's will. Where then is our freedom of choice?!
The Rambam makes sense. Offering charity is about turning towards the other, not far from him. It implies providing with a smiling countenance, a radiating face, a glowing aura of enthusiasm - to assist the other, no matter how insignificant their issues might seem, their monetary predicament or their personality in life in general - and no matter just how much they need. There are no limitations when it pertains to helping others - let alone ourselves. The discomfort of another, is our own. When we understand for simply a minute, that in reality, we are truly one body with one heart, 2 lungs, a stomach, brains and a lot more - then so too, as more here a body operates in unity causing it to be in a state of health - so too the Jewish people require everyone getting in touch with the other.
We all have something to offer - a smile, a kind word, a caring gesture, an assisting hand, an arrangement of flowers, a phone call of care, and, yes, the monetary prosperity that we have been blessed with.
More than the provider gives to the recipient, the recipient gives to the provider! Such an individual provides the provider the best chance in life - to give, to become G-dlike and create something brand-new on the planet. Through his receiving, he permits the provider to develop the world, to bring G-dliness into it, by permitting him to mimic G-d Himself. It is in truth he - the receiver, who brings into existence the idea of offering, which the giver has actually now merited to do.
It's truly a win-win. We provide to another, and yet another - returns to us. Therefore the root letters for the Hebrew word for offering are Nun Tav Nun - NaTaN. These letters can be spelled backwards the very same method as they are spelled forwards - for when one provides, one gets at least an equivalent step in return. If we turn and conceal - frowning, whining and complaining as we give another, then this "offering" will certainly return to us, and if we smile as we give, we will receive this smile from another too.