- Giving a poor person
work (or loaning him money to start a business) so he
will not have to depend on charity. This is because the
person is now free from having to rely on charity. The
giver has not just helped the recipient for the short
while, but instead for the rest of their life. There are
four sub-levels to this:
- Giving a poor person
work.
- Making a partnership
with them
(this is lower than work, as the recipient might feel he
doesn't put enough into the partnership).
- Giving a loan.
- Giving a gift.
- Giving charity
anonymously to an unknown recipient.
- Giving charity
anonymously to a known recipient.
- Giving charity
publicly to an unknown recipient.
- Giving charity before
being asked.
- Giving adequately
after being asked.
- Giving willingly, but
inadequately.
-
Giving unwillingly.
Source Hilchos Matnos
Aniyim 10:1,7-14
Also See:
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