Q. Can one give as Matanot Laevyonim or gift to the poor on Purim a volume of the Talmud to a Bachur Yeshiva that in his economic condition qualifies as being ‘poor,’ since he needs that Gemara and will have to spend money that is not easy for him, to get?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that one may do so.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a