Do not neglect the children of the poor, for from them will go forth the Law.
Wealth is the greater test of character than poverty.
Jerusalem will only be redeemed through tzedakah.
Honor the Lord with your wealth with the first fruits of your crop.
There was a secret chamber in the Beit HaMikdash where pious people would leave money in secret and those who had been well-to-do but had become poor would come and take in secret.
Rabbi Chana ben Chanila “would keep his hand in his pocket, so that when a poor person would ask for money, he would not feel humiliated.”
Rabbi Yanai once saw a man give money to a poor man publicly. He said, “It would have been better for you not to have given him anything rather than giving to him as you did, causing him embarrassment.”
Rabbi Elazar of Bartota said: “Give unto Him of what is His, seeing that you and all you have is His.”
At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in that year, and shall lay it up inside your gates…and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are inside your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord your God may bless Continue Reading »
When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands… And you Continue Reading »
