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Eight Levels of Giving Tzedakah
By Moses ben Maimon, (1135-1204),
Spanish rabbi, codifier, philosopher, and royal physician
There are different ways to give... Some are more virtuous than others.
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Maimonides:Sefer Hamitzvot
Title Page-Warsaw 1870
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- A gift, a loan, a business partnership, or a job that renders alms unnecessary…
- Benevolence in which the giver and the recipient are unknown to one another. Similar to this is money put
into the communal tzedakah box…
- Benevolence in which the giver is unknown to the recipient (but the recipient is know to the giver)….
- Benevolence in which the recipient is unknown to the giver (but the giver is known to the recipient)….
- Giving before one is asked to give.
- Giving after one is asked to give.
- Giving less than appropriate, but graciously.
- Giving grudgingly.
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