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making peace between a person and another human being. A person who embodies chesed is known as a chasid ( hasid , חסיד ), one who is faithful to the covenant and who goes "above and beyond that which is normally required" [ 14 ] and a number of groups throughout Jewish history which focus on going "above and beyond" have called themselves ...
Giving tzedakah before being asked. Giving adequately after being asked. Giving willingly, but inadequately. Giving "in sadness" (giving out of pity): It is thought that Maimonides was referring to giving because of the sad feelings one might have in seeing people in need (as opposed to giving because it is a religious obligation).
Pidyon shevuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים, romanized: piḏyon šəvuyim, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew captured by slave dealers or robbers, or imprisoned unjustly. Reconciliation, ransom negotiations, or unrelenting pursuit typically secured ...
[18] [19] Modern Hebrew still uses the Biblical Hebrew term the needy for almsgiving to the needy at Purim. [20] Scholar James D. Tabor argues that the Ebionites most likely named themselves after the poor, the first of many groups of people mentioned in the Beatitudes of Jesus as blessed and meriting entry in the coming Kingdom of God on Earth ...
The Torah commands not to despise the Egyptian "for you were a stranger in his land" (Deut. 23:8); the Jewish people received hospitality [10] and recognize this. Although when "A new king arose over Egypt who did not know of Yoseph" (Exod. 1:8), meaning "he did not WANT to know who he was!
Yichud also applies outdoors. Illustration from Eliza Orzeszkowa's novel Meir Ezofowicz, which deals with the conflict between Jewish orthodoxy and modern liberalism.. The laws of yichud provide for strong restrictions on unrelated members of the opposite sex being secluded together, and milder ones for close family members.
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Kedoshim, K'doshim, or Qedoshim (קְדֹשִׁים —Hebrew for "holy ones," the 14th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 30th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 19:1–20:27.