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When a poor person comes and asks for his needs to be met and the giver does not have the financial capacity, he should give him according to his financial capacity.
How much? The most desirable way of performing the mitzvah is to give one fifth of one's financial resources. Giving one tenth is an ordinary measure. Giving less [than that] reflects parsimony. A person should never refrain from giving less than a third of a shekel a year. A person who gives less than this has not fulfilled the mitzvah…
Mishneh Torah, Gifts to the Poor 7:5
A lower level than that is an instance when the giver knows to whom he is giving, but the poor person does not know from whom he received. An example of this were the great Sages who would go in secret and throw money into the doorways of the poor. This is a worthy way of giving charity and it is a good quality [to express] if the trustees of the charitable fund are not conducting themselves appropriately. A lower level than that is an instance when the poor person knows from whom he took, but the donor does not know to whom he gave…
Mishneh Torah, Gifts to the Poor 10:9-14
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It is taught
in a
baraita
:
Rabbi Meir would say: An opponent may bring an argument against you and say to you: If your God loves the poor, for what
reason
does He not support them
Himself? In such a case,
say to him:
He commands us to act as His agents in sustaining the poor,
so that through them we will be
credited with the performance of mitzvot and therefore be
saved from the judgment of Gehenna. And this is the question that Turnus Rufus the wicked asked Rabbi Akiva: If your God loves the poor…
Bava Batra 10a:2-5
Zoon van het oude volk (Son of the old people) c. 1888. by Jozef Israëls
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