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Do not withhold good where it is due,
if it be in your power to bestow it!
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Who is honored? He that honors mankind.
ID:857
The begger is hungry and does not know it.
ID:858
There is no worse death than death by hunger.,
ID:860
Advice and words will not fill an empty belly.
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All Jews are responsible each for the other.
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But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an everflowing stream!
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Blessed are they that observe justice
and do righteousness at all times!
ID:960
By three things is the world sustained:
the Law, the Temple service and deeds of loving kindness.
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When there is no truth, there is no kindness.
ID:1024
Lend a man money when he needs it
and pay back a loan yourself in time!
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Who lends money to the needy free of interest
is better than the giver of alms.
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Two things will never mix: a good heart and stinginess.
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The miser pays double in the end.
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If your brother becomes poor, you shall maintain him.
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Who closes his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself cry out and not be heard.
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The poor of your own town should be preferred
to those of another.
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Help the poor, for you may not know what the day will bring forth, and the wheel revolves!
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Any study of the Torah and any prayer unaccompanied by good deeds and repentance void the Torah and make the prayer unwanted.
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To ransom prisoners is a splendid act of piety.
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Great is almsgiving (repentance)
for it brings Redemption nearer.
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Better an hour of repentance and good deeds in this world than a lifetime in the world to come.
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Riches are kept by their owner to his own hurt.
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A rich man may fall seven times and rise again,
but the poor falls once only---and forever.
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Who declines to endow a scholar with his worldly goods
will see no blessing.