Generosidade
A generosidade é marca do caráter de Deus e vocação do cristão. Deus ama ao que dá com alegria. Quem semeia generosamente, generosamente colherá.
Dar com alegria
Deus ama ao que dá com alegria. Cada um contribua segundo propôs no coração — não com tristeza ou por necessidade.
Each of you should give as he has decided previously in his lev (heart), not giving bedieved (begrudgingly) nor out of necessity; for Hashem loves a cheerful giver. TARGUM HASHIVIM
Note this: the one sowing sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one sowing for a bracha of bounty will also reap a bracha of bounty. Each of you should give as he has decided previously in his lev (heart), not giving bedieved (begrudgingly) nor out of necessity; for Hashem loves a cheerful giver. TARGUM HASHIVIM And Hashem is able to cause to abound to you all Chen v’Chesed Hashem that in everything, always, having all sufficiency, you may abound to every mitzvah. As it has been written, PIZAR NATAN LAEVYONIM TZIDKATO OMEDET LA’AD (He scattered, he gave to the poor, His Righteousness endures forever). Now the one supplying ZERA (seed) to the sower and LECHEM for okhel (food) will supply and will multiply your zera and will increase the p’ri of the Tzedek of you; TARGUM HASHIVIM You will be enriched in every ma’aseh chesed to all generosity, which produces through us hodayah (thanksgiving) to Hashem; Because the avodas kodesh of this tzedakah is not only filling up the things lacking of the Kedoshim, but is also abounding through hodayah rabbah (much thanksgiving) to Hashem;
Now the one supplying ZERA (seed) to the sower and LECHEM for okhel (food) will supply and will multiply your zera and will increase the p’ri of the Tzedek of you; TARGUM HASHIVIM
You will be enriched in every ma’aseh chesed to all generosity, which produces through us hodayah (thanksgiving) to Hashem;
For if the readiness is already present, it is acceptable according to whatever one may have — not according to what one does not have.
Partilhar e abençoar
Quem dá aos pobres empresta ao Senhor. A generosidade abre portas de bênção sobre quem dá e sobre quem recebe.
The nefesh berakhah (generous person) shall be made to prosper,
and he that watereth shall be refreshed also himself.
There is that which scattereth, and yet increaseth more;
and there is that which withholdeth more than is yosher, but it leadeth to machsor (want, need, poverty).
The nefesh berakhah (generous person) shall be made to prosper,
and he that watereth shall be refreshed also himself.
Honor Hashem with thy substance,
and with the reshit (firstfruit) of all thine increase;
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy vats shall burst out with tirosh.
Withhold not tov from them to whom it is due,
when it is in the power of thine yad to do it.
He who stoppeth his ozen at the cry of the dal (poor),
he also shall cry out himself, but shall not be heard.
Bring ye kol hama’aser (all the tithes) into the Beis HaOtzar (House of the Treasury),
that there may be teref (food) in Mine Beis,
and prove Me now herewith,
saith Hashem Tzva’os,
if I will not open you the windows of Shomayim,
and pour you out a brocha,
that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
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.
O ensino de Jesus
Dai e dar-se-vos-á. A quem te pedir, dá. O que fizestes a um destes mais pequeninos, a mim o fizestes.
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.
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.
To everyone asking you, give tzedakah; and from the one taking away your things, do not demand them back.
If, therefore, you, though you are ra’im (evil ones), have da’as (knowledge) of how to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more will HaAv sh’ba’Shomayim give the Ruach Hakodesh to the ones asking him.
And the one asking you to give and the one wishing to borrow from you, from these do not turn away.
Therefore, whenever you contribute tzedakah, don’t blow the shofar before you, as the tzevuim (hypocrites) do in the shuls and in the streets, in order that they may receive kavod (glory) from Bnei Adam. Omein, truly I say to you, they have their sachar (reward). But when you contribute tzedakah, do not let your left hand have da’as (knowledge) of what your right hand is doing, so that your tzedakah may be nistar (hidden, in secret), and your Av HaRoeh b’seter (Father, the One seeing in secret) sachar (reward) will give 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.
Generosidade de Deus
Se Deus dá sabedoria generosamente a quem pede, quanto mais nos dará Ele forças e suprimento em toda necessidade?
But if any one of you is lacking chochmah (wisdom), let him direct tefillah (prayer) and techinot (petitions) to Hashem, the One whose matanot (gifts) are given generously and without grudging, and chochmah will be given to him.
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).
He giveth ko’ach to the faint;
and to them that have no might He increaseth power.
A tov ish is generous, and lendeth;
he will guide his affairs with mishpat.