Pay the Worker or Buy the Mitzvah Item First?
When money is limited, does paying an employee on time take priority over buying an item needed for a mitzvah?
A Torah-law discussion of wage payment, limited resources and the moral weight of an employee’s earned money when it competes with another religious expenditure. This publication layer is based only on the canonical Hebrew mapping. It preserves the Torah framing and all review gates and does not add a practical ruling, medical conclusion, legal conclusion, or factual claim beyond the mapped source.