Poverty and Wealth - created from Mind Map

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Religious views of wealth and of the causes of hunger, poverty and disease

Causes

Alcohol

Natural Disasters

Lack of Jobs

War

Addication

Use of money

Teachings about the use of money

Giving to charity

Being rich is OK

Not allowed to charge interest to fellow Jews

Jews allowed to take interest from gentiles

Maimonides said that taking interest from gentiles was a positive commandment as he believed it would minimise intermarriage. A jew lending to a jentile without interest would encourage social interaction but with interest they would not want to be friends

Give time

Give when somebody asks

World Jewish Relief

Pushkes

Tzedaka

Gemilut Hasadim

Give to the poor

Among your close relatives

In your extended family

In your city

In other cities and countries

"giving to the poor is not viewed as a generous, magnanimous act; it is simply an act of justice and righteousness, the performance of a duty, giving the poor their due" (Judaism 101).

Leviticus 19:9-10 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger; I am the Lord your G-d (Plaut, 1981, 895).

Justice or righteous

If, however, there is a needy person among you… do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsmen. Rather, you must open your hand and lend him sufficient for whatever he needs (Plaut, 1981, 1441).

The above passages guide the Jewish people to treat those who are poor and/or without food with dignity and to ensure that their basic needs are met. The commandment to perform these righteous acts has been interpreted as caring for the poor of both Jewish and non-Jewish communities. The commandment has directed the Jewish community to create a social welfare system based on individual and communal responsibility to care for those who cannot care for themselves. Throughout history, organizations that are part of the system have provided pushkes to households to collect funds for their causes.

Moral and Immoral occupations

Sabbath

Maimonides Ladder

Immoral

Levels of Trangression

Day of rest

Don't work

1 - Gives to help a person become self-sufficient 2 - The giver does not know the receiver and the receiver does not know who gave 3 - The gives knows the receiver, but the receiver does not know who gave 4 - The giver does not know the receiver, but the receiver knows who gave 5 - Gives directly to a person in need before being asked. 6 Gives directly to a person in need, after being asked. 7 Gives directly to a person in need cheerfully, but should give more 8 Gives a small amount reluctantly, with a scowl.

Gambling, betting

Selling tobbaco

Working with arms

Working on the Sabbath

professional gambling - iving on gambling = BAD. 'The professional gambler was considered a parasite that was engaged in a useless endeavour . Spineless wastrel.

- Disqualified from giving testimony

- A moral weaking

Deny Charity to him if he looses all money

- Not a criminal offence

1) Enabling ~(Only You)

Abetting (Someone Else would)

3) Condoning (Not stopping it)

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