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Maimonides is known for enumerating Eight Levels of Giving (where the first level is most preferable, and the eighth the least): [12] Giving an interest-free loan to a person in need; forming a partnership with a person in need; giving a grant to a person in need; finding a job for a person in need, so long as that loan, grant, partnership, or ...
Maimonides conceived of an eight-level hierarchy of tzedakah, where the highest form is to give a gift, loan, or partnership that will result in the recipient becoming self-sufficient instead of living upon others. In his view, the lowest form of tzedakah is to give begrudgingly. [91] The eight levels are: [92] Giving begrudgingly
In the Mishneh Torah, Chapter 10:7–14, Maimonides lists eight "laws about giving to poor people" (hilkhot matanot aniyim), listed in order from most to least righteous, with the most righteous form being allowing an individual to become self-sustaining and capable of giving others charity: [61] Enabling the recipient to become self-reliant.
According to Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah, the highest level of tzedakah is giving charity that will allow the poor to break out of the poverty cycle and become independent and productive members of society.
[8] Maimonides outlines 11 levels of prophecy, with that of Moses being beyond the highest, and thus most unimpeded. Subsequent lower levels reduce the immediacy between God and prophet, allowing prophecies through increasingly external and indirect factors such as angels and dreams.
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The rabbis describe a hierarchy of levels of impurity. In general, each level can result from touch by the level above it. The levels are: Avi avot hatumah (grandfather of impurity) - a human corpse; Av HaTumah (father of impurity) - Maimonides enumerates 11 objects which have this status: [55] Tameh met - a living person who has touched a corpse
Rabbi Maimon ben Joseph HaDayan (born c.1110) was a Spanish exegete, moralist and dayyan (Hebrew for "judge"). He is best known as the father of Maimonides.His teacher was the respected scholar Joseph ibn Migash.