The Jewish Wisdom Database

Charity removes the stain of sin.

What you give to charity in health is gold; in sickness, is silver, and after death, is copper.

Draw out your soul to the hungry.

Do not humiliate a beggar: God is at his right hand.

Charity demands the utmost care and diligence, for it may save a life.

He gives twice who gives quickly.

Give graciously, cheerfully, and sympathetically.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

What nation on earth has customs as strange as ours? Our poor demand alms, as if they were collecting a debt, and our benefactors...invite paupers to their table.

Who gives charity with a smile is truly a right-minded man.

To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed.

Charity must be given in secret.

Let us supply the man in need also with that about which he is silent.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

To promote peace, we support the poor of the heathen, visit their sick and bury their dead, along with the poor, the sick, and the dead of Israel.

It is permissible to assign charity to the poor on the Sabbath.

Let your home be wide open and the needy be members of your household.

Let all who are hungry come and eat. [Passover]

The poor does for the host more than the host for the poor.

To eat and drink on a festival in the company of your family without providing for the poor and distressed, is not 'the joy of the commandment' but the joy of your stomach. It is a disgrace.

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

Charity delivers from death only when giver and recipient do not know the one who the other is.

Even a poor man living on charity should give charity.

Great is charity because it brings Redemption nearer!

It is better not to give alms than to give it in public, with embarrassment for the recipient.