About This Text
Ahavat Chesed is a 19th-century work on performing acts of loving-kindness by Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan, author of the Mishnah Berurah and the Chafetz Chaim. It details how to properly give loans to the needy, perform hospitality, celebrate with a bride and groom, visit the sick, write a will, comfort the mourning, and bury the dead. It also incorporates talmudic stories and teachings about the greatness of chesed. The work is printed with the Netiv Chesed, an elaborating commentary written by the author.