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Righteous Giving to the Poor: "Tzedakah" ("Charity") in Classical Rabbinic Judaism : Including a Brief Introduction to Rabbinic Literature /

Ulmer, Moshe

Righteous Giving to the Poor: "Tzedakah" ("Charity") in Classical Rabbinic Judaism : Including a Brief Introduction to Rabbinic Literature / Moshe Ulmer. - 1 online resource (198 p.) - Gorgias Handbooks .

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLITERATION -- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO RABBINIC LITERATURE -- CHAPTER ONE: THEOLOGY OF TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER TWO: THE RABBINIC VIEW OF POVERTY AND THE HUMILIATION OF ACCEPTING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER THREE: THE REWARDS OF GIVING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER FOUR: THE PENALTY OF NOT GIVING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE ROLE OF TZEDAKAH IN THE COMMUNITY -- CHAPTER SIX: THE URGENCY OF GIVING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER SEVEN: GIVING TZEDAKAH DISCREETLY AND INDIRECTLY -- CHAPTER EIGHT: RULES AFFECTING THE DONOR OF TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER NINE: ALMS COLLECTORS -- CHAPTER TEN: THE PRIORITIES IN GIVING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: VOWS AND TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER TWELVE: MOTIVATION IN GIVING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: TZEDAKAH IN RELATION TO OTHER MITZVOT -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: TZEDAKAH IN RESPECT TO SHABBAT AND FAST DAYS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: BIBLICAL FIGURES PERFORMING TZEDAKAH -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: RESTRICTIONS UPON THE DONEE AND RECEIVING TZEDAKAH FRAUDULENTLY -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: TZEDAKAH AND THE GENTILE COMMUNITY -- CONCLUSION -- RABBINIC AUTHORITIES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Moral insights and comments about Tzedakah ("Charity") are found throughout the vast body of rabbinic literature. This book attempts to present a survey of the rabbinic sources concerning Tzedakah and to provide the reader with an analysis of the system of Tzedakah as created and understood by the Rabbis.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781463202613 9781463235970

10.31826/9781463235970 doi


Charity laws and legislation (Jewish law).
Charity.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice.

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