Daily Chizuk #0973

Rav Moshe Feinstein, zatzal, writes in his sefer Igrot Moshe, the same way we have an obligation to give ten percent of our earnings to charity, so too a Torah scholar is obligated to dedicate ten percent of his learning to teaching and helping others. When someone takes away from his own learning to help other people, in the natural way of the world, presumably, he will not be able to accomplish as much as he could have had he used all that time for himself. However, when it comes to avodat Hashem, it does not matter what seems natural. Just like when a person gives away his money to tzedaka, Hashem blesses him with more, so too when a person takes away time from himself and gives it to others. Hashem gives that person extra siyata d’Shamaya in his own life and in his own learning.
We never lose by giving, we only gain more.