Sublime

The beneficiary is entitled to tzedaka according to his or her need; the donor is only obligated to give what he or she can afford.”

If a person finds the money he has to live off is too little for his needs, the best thing to do is to make it into charity. Charity is the tikkun for material possessions. In the end he will have plenty of money (Ibid.).

“The reward for charity (tzedakah) depends entirely upon the extent of the kindness (hesed) in it.”21 In the same vein, a modern rabbinic figure writes that “the essence of acts of hesed (lovingkindness) is the heart that is put into the deed.”22 Judaism is about what you do, why you do it, and how you do it. Jewish ethics ask for deeds of love don

From earliest rabbinic times there were such institutions as the tamchui, or mobile kitchen, which distributed food daily to whoever applied,

Nevertheless, if when dealing with a gentile, the gentile makes an error in counting, weighing or measuring merchandise and is willing to purchase it for more than its value, it is not necessary to correct him and inform him of its true worth. Although this standard of righteousness is required when dealing with a Jew, it is not mandatory when deal

Devarim 15:8. Kesubos 67b infers from the Hebrew phrase employed that the mitzvah of giving charity involves giving a person not merely enough to satisfy his basic necessities, but also enough to enable him to maintain

If, however, one promises to give a poor person25 a present — whether a large one or a small one — he cannot retract, [even] according to the letter of the law, because it is considered as a vow.26 Even if he [merely] undertook a resolution in his heart, he must carry out that resolve,27 as will be explained in Hilchos Tzedakah. 28

If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them. 26If you take your neighbor’s cloak in pawn, you shall restore it before the sun goes down; 27for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as cover; in what else shall that person sleep? And if your neighb

Charity is the comprehensive tikkun for business activity. With every step a person takes as he goes about his business, with every word he speaks and every ounce of strength he puts into his work, he should have it in mind that his only goal is to give charity from the money he earns (29:9).