Potpourri
Rabbi Sacks explains that charity and justice contradict each other, making it hard to translate this word (because it incorporates both English words!)
What is tzedakah
Organizations that use this approach provide directly for the short term of the communities they serve.
What are immediate needs
This person created a hierarchy of needs that helps us determine how to give tzedakah according to what people need.
Who is Maslow
These are other names for Maimonides.
What are Rambam and Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon
This is how we translate L'fi K'vdo
What is meeting someone according to their social status
In order to most effectively help someone, this needs to happen.
What is identify and solve a chain of interconnected problems facing the needy
Organizations that use this approach provide technology and infrastructure related services to help people better their own lives.
What is Technical Assistance and Training
These are specific things a person needs to survive in the moment.
What are immediate needs: food, clothing, shelter
This was created to help people understand the concept of tzedakah and how we should give.
What is Rambam's Ladder
This concept includes one's family status being based on socioeconomic status and one's family's wealth.
These three make up the curative measures of justice, according to the rabbis.
What are the soup kitchen, medical attention and the charity fund
This works to increase society’s knowledge about important issues so that those working on those issues are better able to make an impact.
What is Education and Research
These are the minimal needs according to halacha.
What are a bed, table, house and marriage
What is helping someone to be self-sufficient
Because people don't always have a support system, society must act in place of who?
What is in loco parentis, in place of one's parents
These are the specific things that make it difficult for a person to get out of poverty.
What are the root causes: lack of land, lack of money, lack of education, lack of power, lack of ability to change laws.
Organizations that engage in this type of work put pressure on government representatives to change laws or bring cases to court to ensure that laws are not violated.
What is Political or Legal Advocacy
According to the hierarchy of needs, this can only be met after our basic needs are met.
What is love and belonging
This is a way to describe all of the needs a person has.
What are their holistic needs
The ideas that society must give money to people in need, people must claim resources to satisfy their needs, and tzedakah should be focused on individual needs are principles of this.
What are the principles that underlie the Talmudic Policies of Welfare
This is one of the most critical elements in changing how things have been done through funding new programs.
What are Private Jewish Foundations
This is why we need all four strategies.
What is to address short and long term goals as well as help people according to their needs
From this we learn that we must help someone in need and that they also must help themselves.
What is relieving the donkey from its burden
Maimonides formulates this concept to include a person's worthiness in consideration of what they are given, along with the idea of corrective justice.
What is distributive justice
A complex understanding of the needs of the community and individual must be evaluated in order to follow through on the basic principles of tzedakah, so this should be used to distribute tzedakah.
What is a committee of at least scholars