Re'eh

 Nesivos Shalom stresses how we must subordinate ourselves, realize that we and all we have and all we do is from G-d. He says this is the idea of the mitzvah of tzedakah in Re'eh being generally read around Elul.

Tzedakah is unique in that it says you can't have a bad heart while you do it - and tradition has it that you don't get the mitzvah if you have a sour attitude while giving tzedakah. This is because the essence of tzedakah is not the act of giving but the accepting of faith in G-d, which means realizing that you and yours are His. Thus, doing the mitzvah properly means you have a happy heart, not feeling that you're losing something that's yours. Also, if you do tzedakah in the right way, it brings with it a gratefulness to G-d for counting it as if you gave from what you own, though everything you have is His.
He ties this is with a novel interpretation of the theme of the month of Elul, "I am to my beloved, and my beloved is to me": If Am feel that I and all I have and all I do belongs to my beloved, then He will act towards me in a way that gives me credit beyond what I deserve, for giving of what belongs to Him.

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