Ajuda ao próximo
Ajudar o próximo é mandamento de Deus e expressão prática da fé. A Bíblia ensina que a fé sem obras é morta — e que servir ao menor dos irmãos é servir a Cristo.
For I hungered and you gave me something to eat. I thirsted and you gave drink to me. I was a sojourner, and you extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to me. I was naked and you gave me malbish arumim (clothing the naked). I was ill; with bikkur cholim (visiting the sick) you ministered to me. I was in the beit hasohar (prison); you came to me. Then the tzaddikim will answer him, Adoneinu, when did we see you hungering and we fed you, or thirsting and we gave you drink? And when did we see you a sojourner and we extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to you, or naked and we clothed you? And when did we see you ill or in the beit hasohar and we came to you? And in reply, HaMelech will say to them, Omein, I say to you, in as much as you did it to one of the least of these achim of mine, you did it to me.
And the one asking you to give and the one wishing to borrow from you, from these do not turn away.
In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your ma’asim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av sh’ba’Shomayim (Father in Heaven).
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, having been pressed down and having been shaken, overflowing, will be put into your kheyk (lap). For by what measure you measure it will be measured in return to you.
And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, What then should we do? And in reply, Yochanan was saying to them, Let the one having two kaftans share with the one having none, and let the one having okhel (food) do likewise.
Sell your possessions and give tzedakah. Make for yourselves the baitel (wallet) that doesn’t wear out, an inexhaustible otzar (treasure) in Shomayim, where no ganav (thief) comes near nor moth destroys. For where your otzar (treasure) is, there also will be your lev (heart).
This is my mitzvah for you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have ahavah (agape) for you.
Ahavah (agape) gedolah than this no one has, that someone lay down his neshamah for his chaverim.
In all this I was showing you a mofet (example) that thus working hard it is necessary to help the weak and to have zikaron of the devarim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, that he himself said, "Beser (better) to geben (give) than to nemen (take)."
And having said these things, Rav Sha’ul fell down and, with them all, began davening. And there was much weeping among them, and, having fallen upon the neck of Rav Sha’ul, they were kissing him, with agmat nefesh above all at the dvar in which Rav Sha’ul had said that no longer would they see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the oniyah.
With a spirit of koinonia, keep the pushke full for the needs of the Kedoshim. Aspire to hachnosas orchim.
We, the strong, ought to support the weaknesses of those without chizzuk, and not to please ourselves.
Bear one anotherʼs burdens and thus you will fulfill the Torah of Moshiach.
Let the one stealing no longer be a ganav, but rather let the ganav get a parnasah (livelihood) and toil with his own hands at something beneficial, that he may have something to share with the one who is nitzrach (needy).
Let each of you talmidim look after not only your own interests, but also the best interests of others.
What is the revach (gain, profit), my Achim b’Moshiach, if anyone claims to have emunah but does not have ma’asim (deeds)? Surely not such "emunah" is able to bring him to Yeshu’at Eloheinu? If an Ach b’Moshiach or an Achot b’Moshiach is dressed in shmattes (tatters) and lacking "lechem chukeinu" (our daily bread), and anyone of you says to them, "Go in shalom! Be warmed and fed!" but you do not give to them the physical necessities, what is the revach (profit)? So also Emunah, if alongside it there is not in its company Ma’asim, is by itself niftar (deceased, dead).
Now whoever has vital possessions of the Olam Hazeh and sees the Ach b’Moshiach of him being nitzrach (needy) and has no rachamim (mercy) on him and refuses gemilut Chesed, how does the ahavas Hashem make ma’on in him?
He that hath compassion on the dal (poor) lendeth unto Hashem;
and for his benefits He will repay him.
For the poor shall never cease out of ha’aretz; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.