[yshavurah] Re: Tzedakah
- From: "Abi Katz-Stein" <Abi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <clevineys@xxxxxxxxxx>, "'Havurah Listserv'" <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:53:04 -0400
Hi Cheryl,
I love the idea of a community tzedakah project. I had lunch with Ellen
Marie Lauricella recently, who does a lot of work with a Tibetan =
Buddhism
group in Dayton. She mentioned the idea of a pre-holiday non-profit =
fair.
The idea, as I understood it, would be that different faith/ideologic =
groups
would have booths to sell holiday items and the profits from each booth
would go to that groups "charity". As an example the Havurah could sell
books with the profits benefiting Trees in Israel or tsunami victims or
whatever. I like this idea because it is community building on two =
levels:
building local group relationships and giving to a particular group we =
would
like to support.
Just a thought...
Thanks for your spearheading efforts Cheryl!
Abi
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:03 PM
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Subject: [yshavurah] Tzedakah
Hi All!
I ran into this again in a recent "10 Minutes of Torah" and I always =
find it
so fascinating:
Maimonides' Ladder of Tzedakah:=20
1. To help someone else to become self-sufficient=20
2. To give so that neither the person giving nor the receiver know each
other's identity=20
3. To give anonymously (donor knows the recipient, but the recipient =
doesn't
know the donor)
4. To give without knowing who is receiving (recipient knows the donor, =
but
the donor doesn't
know the recipient)=20
5. To give without being asked to give=20
6. To give what is needed, but only after being asked=20
7. To give less than one should, but with compassion and in a friendly
manner=20
8. To give grudgingly, reluctantly, or without wanting to give and not =
in a
friendly manner=20
(Mishneh Torah, Mat'not Aniyim 10:7-14)=20
I sent out a letter a while ago (via email) to see if anyone had any =
energy
or ideas to start a new tzedakah project--it doesn't have to be anything
big, but something that might be helpful, useful? I know we're all =
busy, so
it will be important to keep an eye on the scale of the thing. But I'd =
like
to be doing something like this with my friends...
Let me know, I'd like to keep this going. The clothing drive for the
children of Sierre Leone was a HUGE success.
Thanks,=20
Cheryl
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