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Parshat Re’eh, Rosh Chodesh Elul August 27, 2022 30 Av, 5782
TORAH Rabbi Sacks Re’eh
ARTSCROLL 998
HERTZ 799 If you seek to understand tzedakah – the word usually humiliates, shames.
translated as “charity” but
Judaism’s social vision,
Tzedakah, ruled the
look at its anti-poverty which also means rabbis, must be given in
MAFTIR legislation: “distributive justice, equity”. such a way as to
ARTSCROLL 890 “If there is a poor man The rabbis interpreted the minimize these feelings:
When Rabbi Yannai saw
HERTZ 695 among your brothers in phrase “sufficient for his a certain man giving a
any of the towns of the needs” to mean the basic coin to a poor person in
requirements of existence:
land that the Lord your
front of everyone, he
HAFTORAH God is giving you, do not food, clothing, shelter and said: It would have been
ARTSCROLL 1208 be hardhearted or tight- so on. “That which he lacks” better not to have given
HERTZ 944 fisted toward your poor was understood as referring it to him than to have
to a person who was
brother. Rather be open-
given it and put him to
handed and freely lend previously wealthy but has shame. Hagigah 5b
him sufficient for his needs now become impoverished.
in that which he lacks. Be He too must be helped to In a famous passage,
Times careful not to harbour this recover his dignity: It is Maimonides describes
wicked thought: ‘The related about Hillel the Elder the eight levels of
Shabbat 8/27 seventh year, the year for that, for a certain poor man charity: There are eight
Rosh Chodesh 1 cancelling debts, is near,’ who was of good family, he degrees of charity, one
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
Hashkama 8:00am 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
Parsha Shiur 8:30am
appeal to the Lord against run before the man, he that of one who assists a
Main 9:00am you, and you will be found himself ran before him. poor person by providing
guilty of sin. Give Ketubot 67b him with a gift or a loan
Youth 9:00am generously to him and do or by accepting him into
so without a grudging The force of this passage a business partnership
Beit Midrash 9:15am 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
Gemara Shiur 6:15pm bless you in all your work poor, yet he gave of his by putting him in a
Mincha 7:15pm and in everything you put money and time to help a situation where he can
your hand to. There will rich man who had lost his dispense with other
Shabbat Ends 8:26pm always be poor people in money regain his self- people’s aid. With
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
Week of 8/28 handed toward your of tzedakah. strengthen him, be he a
Sunday Rosh brothers and toward the stranger or a settler, he
Chodesh 2 7:30/8:30am poor and needy in your On the one hand, they are shall live with you’ (Lev.
land.” Deut 15:7-11
directed to the brute fact of 25:35), which means:
Mon. Thurs. 6:35/7:45am poverty. No one must be strengthen him in such a
Tues. Wed. Fri . 6:45/7:45am Ostensibly the passage is deprived of basic physical manner that his falling
Mincha 7:10pm about the cancellation of necessities. into want is prevented.
debts in the seventh year

(shemittah, the year of On the other, they address A step below this is the
“release”). The oral with astonishing sensitivity one who gives alms to
Latest Times for tradition, however, the psychology of poverty. the needy in such a way
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei extended it to the laws of It demeans, embarrasses, that the giver does not
September 3 9:38/10:43am
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