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HOW KINDNESS IS AN EVEN GREATER VIRTUE THAN THE GIVING OF MONEY

9/29/2019

 
Traditional Jewish teachings establishes kindness as a higher virtue than the giving of charity. Here's how that teaching is explained in the Babylonia Talmud, a text regarded as the 'soul' of Jewish theology:

Acts of kindness are greater than charity in three ways:

1. Charity is done with one's money, while kindness may be done with one's money or with one's person (Example:  visiting a sick person)

2. Charity is given only to the poor, while kindness may be done for both the poor and the rich (Example:  spending time and comforting a mourner or  depressed person)

3. Charity is given only to the living, while kindness may be shown to both the living and the dead (Example:   arranging the burial of a person who died indigent)

(cited in Rabbi Joseph Teluskin book A Book of Jewish Values)



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