Unprocessed Tzedakah Pledge

 

Question:

I donated to a tzedakah organization with a debit card, and by the time they processed the payment I didn’t have enough money on the card and the charge didn’t go through. I don’t remember what the organization is (it was a random one that called me) and the charge on my card doesn’t either give me much information. What do I do now?

 

Answer:

If you verbalized your pledge to donate, and you are unable to determine what organization it was, you should do hatoras nedarim.

 

Follow-up Question:

Over Yom Tov I pledged in my mind to give Tzedakah to a certain organization, but now I can’t remember which one. What should I do?

 

Sources:

שו״ע יו״ד סי׳ רנח סעי׳ ג (שכשאינו יודע כמה נדר, מרבה ליתן עד שיאמר לא לכל כך נתכוונתי); פת״ש שם סק״ה, משו״ת חת״ס יו״ד סי׳ רמ (שה״ה כששכח לאיזה צדקה נדר); ערוה״ש שם סעי׳ י (שיכול להתיר נדרו).

 

 

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