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Covenant & Conversation — Re'eh 5784

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Re'eh 5784. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Maimonides sums up the general principle thus: We see this immediately in the form of a law Whoever gives charity to the poor with bad inconceivable in any other moral system: grace and averted eyes has lost all the Someone who does not wish to give merit of his action even though he gives tzedakah or to give less than is appropriate him a thousand gold pieces. Meals: The second is this famous ruling of Maimonides: Please, O Lord our God, do not make us dependent on the gifts or loans of other The highest degree of charity, exceeded by people, but only on Your full, open, holy, none, is when a person assists a poor Jew and generous hand so that we may su er by providing him with a gift or a loan or by neither shame nor humiliation for ever and accepting him into a business partnership all time. It means If a poor person does not want to accept giving people the means to live a digni ed life, and tzedakah, we should practise a form of within the Jewish value system any form of [benign] deception and give it to him under employment is more digni ed than dependence. We have in this ruling of Maimonides in the 12th Laws of Gifts to the Poor, 7:9 century the principle that Muhammad Yunus Making Poverty History 2 Re’eh fi ff fi fi fi fi rediscovered in our time, and for which he was The well-being of the soul can only be awarded the Nobel Prize: the idea of micro-loans obtained after that of the body has been enabling poor people to start small businesses. Faith is not what Karl spiritual heights if you have no food to eat, no roof Marx called “the opium of the people.” The rabbis over your head, if you lack access to medical refused to see poverty as a blessed state, an attention, or if you are beset by nancial worries. Ideally the donor should not know Laws of Gifts to the Poor, 10:7 to whom he or she is giving (story 1), nor the Giving someone a job or making him your partner recipient know from whom he or she is receiving would not normally be considered charity at all. makes sense only on this assumption, that giving is essential to human dignity and tzedakah is the This deep psychological insight is eloquently obligation to ensure that every

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Covenant & Conversation

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29 августа 2024 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary