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We ask the following database query:
What activities does the Torah classify as charity?
The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine.
This database query yields the list below.
The list justifies the following Rashi inference:
There are 4 ways to fulfill the obligation of charity:
1) Monetary gifts 2) monetary loans 3) business support
4) abandonment of items letting the poor work (gather) for them.
The list below presents the results of the database query.
Verse
| Word used
| Charity fulfillment through...
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Dt15-10
| you shall give him
| Monetary gifts
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Dt15-07:08
| lend him sufficient for his needs
| Interest free loans
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Lv26-35
| you shall strengthen him
| Business support (even without loans or gifts)
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Lv23-22
| leave the corner of the fields for the poor ...
| Abandon the corners for the poor to gather - there is no requirement
for you to help him.
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Advanced Rashi:
Note the exquisite contrast in these 4 examples: Give him freely vs. loan on condition of repayment;
Strengthen and help him in business vs. let them gather the gleanings themselves - let them work,
do not help them! This rich spectrum of charity obligations allows all to participate in this important commandment.
I believe the results of this database query an innovation of this email list as I have not seen it explicitly in any books
on charity.
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