Rambam's Ladder of Tzedakah
What is the 1st one?
Enter a business partnership with a poor person.
What is takkanah?
What is peah?
Leaving the corners of your field for the poor.
What year is shemita?
7th year
What year is the jubilee?
The 50th year.
What is the 3rd one?
Donating to a poor person and they know who donated it.
What is prozbul?
It transfers debts from a person to a court.
What is leket?
When your crop falls on the ground, leave it for poor people.
Where do you do shemita?
Only Israel
What is the Hebrew word for jubilee?
Yovel- יובל
What is the 5th one?
When a donor and recipient know who the other is, but giving before a request.
Why was prozbul made?
People needed their money back.
What is shichicha?
If you accidentally leave cut crops in your field, you can't go back and get it.
What is forgiven during shemita?
Debts
What are the similarities between shemita and Jubilee?
The land rests and debts are forgiven.
What is the 6th one?
When a recipient has to ask for help.
Why was prozbul made?
If people thought they would not make their money back they would not give loans, and people who needed money would die.
What does shichicha mean?
Forgotten
What is the English word for shemita?
Sabbatical
How many years after the shemita is the jubilee?
1 year
What is the order?
Business partnerships with the poor, anonymous giving and receiving, when the donor knows who the recipient is, when the recipient knows who the donor is, when both people know and the gift comes before the request, when the recipient has to ask for help, when the gift is given willingly, when the gift is given grudgingly
What does prozbul mean?
In front of the court.
What does leket mean?
Gleaning
What do you do besides forgive debts during shemita?
The land is given a year of rest.
How does slavery connect to the jubliee?
Slaves are let go.