RE: tzedakah

Subject: RE: tzedakah
From: dani
Date: 14 Oct 97 - 09:42 AM

Sorry to clog the lines with even more weeds (why is it so hard to move around here lately?) but I wanted to answer your question, Shula, and couldn't get back there!

I am planning a service for my congregation on the topic of welfare reform and our response in our community. Am using this quote, "charity is scraps from the table - justice is being invited to the table itself" and when I saw your post re: tzedakah I thought the concept dovetailed nicely. Wanted to credit the Jews for their sensible, intelligent approach to a subject whose semantics are difficult sometimes. Got some neat info from another website: if you're interested, I'll think of the name.

The DT and the Mudcat have been invaluable to me in incorporating music with worship, which I see as interdependent concepts.

Dani

Subject: RE: RE: tzedakah
From: Shula
Date: 14 Oct 97 - 12:11 PM

Dear Dani,

Am interested, of course, and delighted to be of some small help. Think we ought to take this into e-mail, since I've caused us to stray off a music-bound course. Would love to discuss further at: [e-mail], or in messages.

Shalom,

Shula

Subject: RE: RE: tzedakah
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 Oct 97 - 02:12 PM

Along the same lines (or a different line), there is a beautiful book called "The Gift" by Lewis Hyde, which is a long meditation on the non-reciprocal gift (the gift for which you are not guaranteed recompense, thanks, or brownie points). For example, God creating the universe for no reward, though She is worthy of all praise. Yours, Peter