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Parshat Shoftim September 3, 2022 7 Elul, 5782
TORAH Rabbi Sacks on Shoftim
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HERTZ 820 If you seek to understand tzedakah – the word usually humiliates, shames.
Judaism’s social vision, translated as “charity” but Tzedakah, ruled the
which also means
look at its anti-poverty
rabbis, must be given in
HAFTORAH legislation: “distributive justice, equity”. such a way as to
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HERTZ 835 “If there is a poor man The rabbis interpreted the When Rabbi Yannai saw
among your brothers in phrase “sufficient for his a certain man giving a
Bar Mitzvah any of the towns of the needs” to mean the basic coin to a poor person in
Gavi Lichter land that the Lord your requirements of existence: front of everyone, he
God is giving you, do not food, clothing, shelter and said: It would have been
be hardhearted or tight- so on. “That which he lacks” better not to have given
Times fisted toward your poor was understood as referring it to him than to have
brother. Rather be open-
to a person who was
given it and put him to
handed and freely lend previously wealthy but has shame. Hagigah 5b
Shabbat 9/3 him sufficient for his needs now become impoverished.

in that which he lacks. Be He too must be helped to In a famous passage,
careful not to harbour this recover his dignity: It is Maimonides describes
Mincha 7:00pm wicked thought: ‘The related about Hillel the Elder the eight levels of
seventh year, the year for that, for a certain poor man charity: There are eight
Candle lighting 7:07pm cancelling debts, is near,’ who was of good family, he degrees of charity, one
Hashkama 8:00am so that you do not show ill bought a horse to ride on higher than the other.
will toward your needy and a slave to run before
Parsha Shiur 8:30am brother and give him him. When on one occasion The highest degree,
nothing. He may then he could not find a slave to exceeded by none, is
Main 9:00am appeal to the Lord against run before the man, he that of one who assists a
you, and you will be found himself ran before him. poor person by providing
Youth 9:00am guilty of sin. Give Ketubot 67b him with a gift or a loan
generously to him and do or by accepting him into
Beit Midrash 9:15am
so without a grudging The force of this passage a business partnership
Gemara Shiur 6:00pm heart; then because of lies in the fact that Hillel or by helping him find
this the Lord your God will himself was notoriously employment – in a word
Mincha 7:00pm bless you in all your work poor, yet he gave of his by putting him in a
and in everything you put money and time to help a situation where he can
Shabbat Ends 8:13pm
your hand to. There will rich man who had lost his dispense with other
always be poor people in money regain his self- people’s aid. With
Week of 9/4 the land. Therefore I respect. Its double aspect is reference to such aid it
command you to be open- evident throughout the laws is said, ‘You shall
Sunday 7:30/8:30am handed toward your of tzedakah. strengthen him, be he a
Mon. Thurs. 6:35/7:45am brothers and toward the On the one hand, they are stranger or a settler, he
shall live with you’ (Lev.
poor and needy in your
Tues. Wed. Fri . 6:45/7:45am land.” Deut 15:7-11 directed to the brute fact of 25:35), which means:
Mincha 7:00pm poverty. No one must be strengthen him in such a
Ostensibly the passage is deprived of basic physical manner that his falling
about the cancellation of necessities. into want is prevented.
debts in the seventh year
(shemittah, the year of A step below this is the
Latest Times for “release”). The oral On the other, they address one who gives alms to
with astonishing sensitivity
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei
tradition, however, the psychology of poverty. the needy in such a way
September 3 9:38/10:43am extended it to the laws of It demeans, embarrasses, that the giver does not
September 10 9:41/10:44am
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