DEUT156 (Continued from [[LEV1052]] Leviticus 25:35 uphold AHAVCH 108-110) One must trust that by obeying God's will with one's money, one will suffer no harm. Instead, one's possessions will be blessed with increase, as it is said [this verse]. What is true of charity is true of chesed, as we have shown in our previous chapters. So even if one did gain the reputation of being wealthy, and his communal assessments were therefore increased by a certain amount each year, you should not be swayed by such a consideration, for God will surely repay the damage he suffered in performing the mitzvah. Besides, consider this situation: a person became aware of an investment which would yield him thousands of dollars per year. As a result, however, he would gain the reputation of being rich, and his annual communal assessments and the like will be increased by several dollars. Would he forgo the investment so as to appear less affluent and thereby escape the increase in his contributions? If he did, everyone would consider him a fool. This is how such arguments appear in our case. Is it worthwhile to forfeit eternal life for the sake of a few grains of silver? Eternal life is earned thereby, because every time one makes such a loan to his neighbor he fulfills a positive Torah commandment, and the reward for mitzvoth is infinite. The lender will be worthy to shelter in the "wings" of the Holy One, blessed be He, in the world to come, as Chazal have declared.