[yshavurah] Re: Tzedakah
- From: Antonia Dosik <tdosik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Abi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <clevineys@xxxxxxxxxx>, 'Havurah Listserv' <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:45:50 -0400
That sounds like a really interesting idea. Something to talk about at the
Annual Meeting?
Toni
> From: "Abi Katz-Stein" <Abi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:53:04 -0400
> To: <clevineys@xxxxxxxxxx>, "'Havurah Listserv'" <yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [yshavurah] Re: Tzedakah
>
> 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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> On Behalf Of Cheryl Levine
> 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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