Maimonides Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

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  Inspirational, Life, Charity

  Moses Maimonides (1963). “The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides”

• There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

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  Men, Eight, Hands

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

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  Kindness, Inspiration, Men

• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

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  Teaching, Men, Compassion

• Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

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  Giving, Charity

• We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

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  Men, Righteous Man, Charity

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.135, Behrman House, Inc

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