Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A few Jewish sources explicitly speak of the provision of housing as a means of tzedakah (charity). Most famous among these texts is the exhortation in Isaiah to “take the poor into your homes,” read as the Haftarah on Yom Kippur. This prophetic cry defines the relief of homelessness as a religious duty, preferable to fasts, sacrifices, and other ritual observances.
Other texts specifically define housing as one of the obligatory types of tzedakah. The Bible commands that a poor person be granted “sufficient for what lacks, according to what is lacking to him.” One talmud text understands each phrase in that command as referring to a specific type of assistance one might grant a poor person: “‘Sufficient for what he lacks’–this is a house. ‘What is lacking’–this is a bed and table.” Significantly, this text imagines the primary needs of a poor person as being related to housing.
Jewish law offers a number of criteria for evaluating the condition of housing and a number of suggestions about the responsibility to ensure that the poor have adequate housing. Central to all of these laws is a concern that housing be safe, secure, and permanent, and that every home allow its inhabitants to live a full and dignified life.
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Other texts specifically define housing as one of the obligatory types of tzedakah. The Bible commands that a poor person be granted “sufficient for what lacks, according to what is lacking to him.” One talmud text understands each phrase in that command as referring to a specific type of assistance one might grant a poor person: “‘Sufficient for what he lacks’–this is a house. ‘What is lacking’–this is a bed and table.” Significantly, this text imagines the primary needs of a poor person as being related to housing.
Jewish law offers a number of criteria for evaluating the condition of housing and a number of suggestions about the responsibility to ensure that the poor have adequate housing. Central to all of these laws is a concern that housing be safe, secure, and permanent, and that every home allow its inhabitants to live a full and dignified life.
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